About Our Coffee

Colombia produces the best coffee in the world and the mountain climates provide ideal growing conditions for coffee. Finca Arcadia, located in Libano, Tolima Colombia, produces coffee that is recognized as some of the best in the world. Libano is a small town four hours southwest of Bogotá in the state of Tolima. This area is located in the southern end of what is called the “Zona Cafetera” or Coffee Zone This is steep mountainous country with dark rich soil and plenty of rain in temperate climate. Tolima is home to many coffee farms that have the benefit of producing two harvests a year from their coffee trees.

At Finca Arcadia, we work year round to produce the best coffee possible. We nurture our trees with natural fodder for mulching and moisture retention. We have systems in place that naturally reduce the wastes from the coffee processes to humus that is spread under the trees to enrich the soils. Workers clean the grounds under and around the trees daily to prevent anything from adversely affecting the flavor of the beans. The farm has processes in place that allows for greater efficiency in production and is ecologically better for the environment. At Finca Arcadia we are passionate about working for the perfect cup of coffee.


Our workers harvest coffee every month of the year. Colombia has two coffee harvests a year and a percentage of the coffee ripens in the months between harvests. Our harvesters pick only the ripest coffee cherries each month and during the harvests. Once picked, the coffee cherries are inspected manually to ensure that no unripe cherry is processed into coffee. Coffee like other types of fruit is bitter before it ripens. When the cherry is ripe the viscous liquid around the beans is sweet. If unripe cherries are allowed into the coffee process they will produce a bitter cup of coffee.

Finca Arcadia is passionate about producing the best cup of coffee possible. We use only natural mulch, harvest only ripe beans, manually inspect the beans before processing and use our own processes for washing the beans and drying before roasting. We strive for consistency in size and quality in every bean.

In 2002, Illy International, the largest expresso coffee distributor in the world from Italy, had a competition in Italy to determine the best coffee in Colombia. Coffee from Finca Arcadia was one of the top ten finalists in this competition and the only one from the province of Tolima Colombia. The Colombian Coffee Federation has declared coffee from Finca Arcadia as “Estate Coffee.” This is a category of coffee awarded to individual farms by the Colombian Coffee Federation. The Colombian Coffee Federation is better known by its logo of “Juan Valdez.” This designation is for coffee of high quality that comes from only one farm. Finca Arcadia coffee comes from one farm and is 100%
processed and packaged in Colombia.

Finca Arcadia coffee in taste tests with other coffees, was documented as full bodied coffee that has a fruity aroma with a hint of caramel.

“We believe a cup of coffee should be a good experience by itself."