Pokemon, Panini football cards, Hard Lines Coffee- shiny means the same thing: special. Colombian farmer Nestor Lasso and his brother Adrian took over their family farm El Diviso 5 years ago, and are part of a new generation of young coffee producers experimenting with post-harvest processing while pushing for environmental sustainability.

Nestor’s reputation is built on multi-stage processing, like this lot that levels up washed processing with extended anaerobic fermentation. The cherries were fermented anaerobically for 20 hours, then separated into smaller batches to undergo another 16 hours fermentation before washing. Finally, the coffee was submerged in leachates from previous harvests for 18 hours then dried.

If the label made you think Turkish Delight wrapper, you're not far off. This bag is packed with sweet strawberry juiciness and rose aromatics with a pleasant syrupy mouthfeel.