Guatemala - Suchitan - Coffea Diversa - Soudan rumé - Washed - 2kg

Originating from the botanical garden of Coffea Diversa, this lot highlights the Rume Sudan variety, a rare coffee with a distinctive genetic heritage, integrated into the project’s botanical conservatory.

Coffea Diversa is a pioneering project founded in the early 2000s by José Padilla and Gonzalo Hernández, driven by a radically different vision of traditional coffee farming. Designed as a coffee botanical garden, the project focuses on preserving, observing, and showcasing coffee’s genetic diversity through the cultivation of hundreds of rare botanical varieties. Today, Coffea Diversa hosts the world’s largest private collection of coffee botanical varieties, with more than 800 specimens, only a portion of which are currently produced as micro-lots.

The Rume Sudan variety is a wild Sudanese Arabica originating from south-eastern Sudan, on the Boma Plateau, near the village of Rume, from which it takes its name. The plants display a tall growth habit, with medium spacing between branches and branch buds. This variety is known for its resistance to diseases, particularly Coffee Berry Disease, as well as moderate yields. The beans are large and elongated, characteristic of this ancient African genetic line.

This approach allows for a faithful and precise expression of Rume Sudan, highlighting clean, structured, and elegant profiles closely linked to its botanical identity and African origin.

José Padilla and Gonzalo Hernández launched the Coffea Diversa venture in the early 2000s with a radically different vision from traditional coffee cultivation. Rather than a mono-varietal farm, they envisioned a true coffee botanical garden, dedicated to the preservation, experimentation, and showcasing of coffee's genetic diversity.

Today, Coffea Diversa holds the world's largest private collection of coffee botanical varieties, with over 800 cataloged specimens, a large portion of which are still in the observation or selection phase. This unique collection constitutes a true living conservatory, conceived as a source of sensory innovation for specialty coffee.

Among this exceptional diversity, approximately 25 rare and exotic botanical varieties are currently produced as micro-lots, allowing for the exploration of unprecedented aromatic profiles, directly derived from the coffee's genetics.

Coffea Diversa coffees are cultivated on two main farms, located in Guatemala and Costa Rica. The Costa Rica farm, situated in the south of the country in Biolley, as well as in the Central Valley and Tres Ríos, is located between 1,250 and 1,700 meters above sea level. The coffees there are cultivated under shade and processed with a wide diversity of fermentation and processing methods.

More than a Producer, Coffea Diversa now stands as a key player in research and taste exploration, where each coffee is the result of patient work on genetics, Terroir, and processing. As they like to say: Coffea Diversa is not a coffee farm, but a coffee garden.