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Who Makes The
BEST COFFEE
Colombia - Vladimir Calambás — supplied coffee image 1
Colombia - Vladimir Calambás — supplied coffee image 2
Colombia - Vladimir Calambás — supplied coffee image 3
Colombia - Vladimir Calambás — supplied coffee image 4
🇨🇴ColombiaWashedBorbón de la MontañaLight roast
Roaster website
Country
🇨🇴Colombia
Region
Cauca
Town
Inzá
Farm / Station
Farmer / Producer
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Specialty
Process
Roast
Light
Tasting notes
watermelon candy, strawberry, cherry, subtle florals, buttery caramel
Fermentation
Fully washed; fermentation duration and protocol are not published.
Drying
Not published.
Product page
Date reviewed
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Why some details are blank
  • farmPartners identifies Vladimir Calambás and Inzá, Cauca, but does not publish a farm name for this release.
  • harvestThe release is dated 2025, but the exact harvest date or crop period is not published.
  • fermentation and dryingThe coffee is identified as fully washed, but fermentation duration, drying method, and drying duration are not published.
The transparency chain

FROM THE BAG
BACK TO THE LAND.

Every link we could verify, traced in one place. Follow the chain as far as it goes — when the industry doesn't disclose a link, we say so instead of guessing.

  1. 01
    The name on the bag
    Colombia - Vladimir Calambás
  2. 02
  3. 03
    The roaster
  4. 04
  5. 05
  6. 06
  7. 07
    The region
  8. 08
From the producer

Vladimir Calambás is an allied producer in Pergamino's network of more than 600 small-scale Colombian farmers. Partners first purchased from him for this 2025 release.

From the roaster

Partners highlights this lot as a sweet, resonant expression of a little-known high-elevation cultivar from Inzá.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

Partners's first purchase from Vladimir Calambás and a documented release of the emerging Borbón de la Montaña cultivar.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Local cultivar separation

The lot is identified as Borbón de la Montaña, a locally propagated high-elevation cultivar near Inzá.

02
Fully washed processing

Partners identifies the lot as fully washed; fermentation and drying details are not published.

What was added?

Nothing added is documented.

What wasn't added?

No fruit, spice, flavoring, or inoculated culture is disclosed.

Why it matters

The profile preserves the verified washed classification while avoiding invented fermentation, drying, or farm details.

What you might taste

Watermelon candy, strawberry, cherry, subtle florals, and buttery caramel are tasting descriptors, not ingredients.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.partnerscoffee.com/products/colombia-vladimir-calambas
  • · https://www.partnerscoffee.com/blogs/education/colombia-vladimir-calambas-2025
Coffee profile

In the database. Not tasted. Not scored.

This coffee is in our database because we can reliably document it — but we haven't tasted and scored it yet, and we never publish a score we haven't earned.

Outside reviews and internet discussion — is kept clearly separate from our own review. When we taste it, our full review appears here.

The internet pulse

What the internet is saying about this coffee

Research complete — no qualifying reviews yet

Our research pipeline scanned public reviews, videos, forums and discussions for this coffee (last pass 2026-10-25) and found no independent review of this exact release that meets our verification standards. When qualifying sources appear, they'll be published here.

What we found

Non-exact, seller, directory, generic-roaster, different-release, duplicate, and older-release sources were excluded.

Until then, meet the people behind it: