About Quindío

CAFÉ Quindío was born in 1992. It is located in the aromatic heart of Colombia.in the city of Armenia, Quindio. Here the best and softest coffee in the world is produced, cultivated with care and dedication by farmers and country people in mountainous and high lands with the appropriate height. It produces the best cherries of its kind, hand-collected, benefited and classified with special techniques; they go to roasting at an optimal temperature in order to highlight its softness, aroma and flavor, qualities that have given us great prestige in the taste of café-experts.

We make products derived from café to offer different consuming options.To diffuse and to train in the quality principles on the productive chain, our company has the CAFÉ-SCHOOL: “From the cherry to the cup. We fulfill our social responsibility through the alliances “CRAFTS AND CAFÉ and the support to “ASOCAFES”, an association for special cafés from Genova, Quindio. We work with the norm NTC-ISO 9001:2008, Quality Promotion System awarded by ICONTEC endorsed by IQNet.

Franchises

Our franchises system is appropriately manualized and standardized. The former together with our experience and the quality of our products guarantees the success of this business model

Café Shop

It is a format of stores and Café -Bars in which a great experience is offered, to drink café in delicious and exotic, cold and hot beverages accompanied by a fine pastry, in an environment allusive to the origin of café and the café culture. There you might be able to get our gourmet café , special cafés and products derived from café made by our enterprise, as well as the souvenirs of the season.

Café School

The experience of CAFÉ QUINDIO S.A.S. bond to the quality compromise and the culture of café is transmitted through the CAFÉ-SCHOOL led by highly specialized staff.

Nodules about the knowledge of Café from the cultivation, benefit, the industry of threshing, of the roasting, and the basic cupping. Advanced cupping for special Colombian Cafés based on the protocols of the international norm (SCAA) Espresso and Latte arts.

Development of technical skills on preparation of Café and its diverse uses.

The CAFÉ-SCHOOL QUINDIO S.A.S. works as an Institution for the Work and Human Development, with training programs registered in the secretary office for education in Armenia.

For participants from other cities:

-Housing services

-Food

-Transport within the city

Crafts and Café

CAFÉ QUINDIO S.A.S. is an enterprise compromised with the social development, in an alliance with the National Institute for Learning Service (SENA in Spanish). It has developed a project that consists on the elaboration of craft packages made of natural biodegradable fiber called GUASCA (pseudo-stem of plantain).

They are made by Young Rural Entrepreneurs and are used to take products as gifts and souvenirs.

In this kind of program the SENA trains a population compounded by handicapped people, young poor people without a chance of getting a good education ,nor the chance to produce the income for them or their families. CAFÉ QUINDIO S.A.S supports them in the commercialization.

That program is also foster with single raising mothers.

We work together for entrepreneurship and social capital.

Café Restaurant

Lounge with terrace: To enjoy lunch, dinner or café afternoons and talk.

Salon for events: Capacity for 80 people, air-conditioning, audio and video beam.

A store for café products and souvenirs. Gallery for the exhibition of sowing, harvest, benefit, roasting and grinding of café, with a video about the processing of café.

The gastronomic quality and the beverage are proportional to the warmth of the place. The first depends on a special menu with a variety of dishes, some with coffee as an ingredient prepared by an expert Chef.

The second one depends on a highly technological -specialized team in the handling with equipment, in the preparation of each cup, in the selection of the beans and in the degree of roasting and grinding.

The decorative details with wall paintings allusive to the café culture made by recognized painters of the region give the place an identity and a special- environment feeling.

A place where tradition and the “Ouindlo-like” being are felt.

Special Cafés

In the mountains of the heart of COLOMBIA, in the municipality of GENOVA QUINDIO there is a great community, COMPROMISED WITH QUALITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT, traditionally they have worked with honesty and dedication in the production of sustainable coffee and from origin, under the association “ASOCAFES FROM GENOVA”, supported by the MAJOR’S OFFICE from the municipality, the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE as the managing-promoting Organization, and the MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE with the program Productive Alliances; entities that with ethical and social criterion have contributed to the production of ARABIGA variety of café, with a profile of special cup.

Our enterprise CAFÉ QUINDIO S.A.S. supports the commercialization paying an additional price(called “prirna” in Spanish)for special coffee and transferring a percentage of the earned utilities(profit) in the sale of each roasted coffee to the fund: ASOCAFES. This percentage of the added value comes directly to the farmer.

Cup’s Profile

Fruitlike and balanced:This Arabiga has a fine acidity with sweet touches.

Body:Balanced. Aroma: Pronounced. Flavor: Intense.

Cultivation: Cultivated on a height between ieoom and iooom above sea-level by small café-growers, hand-collected and treated with wet method.

Our Products From Café Quindío

Café Quindio Gourmet

Coffee Quindio Gourmet

Made with EXCELSO Coffee from Colobmia, Selected from the café farms located in the mountainous zones Quindio. Becau• se of its origins the altitude of cultivation at more than 1.600 m above sea-level are characterized by:

Its softness
Natural Acidity
And Intense Aroma.

The process of elaboration with the technology and the appropriate packaging keeps its propertices.

Presentations:

80g. – 250g. – 500g. – 2500g.

Café Especial de Origen Genova

Specialty coffee origin Genova

This café is grow in the mountains of the heart of Colombia in Genova -Quindio at a height of 1.550mts a 1.900mts above sea-level by the association ASOCAFES. It is a community, committee with the biodiversity and the protection of the environment. Because of the microclimatic, agrological and socio-cultural conditions of the growing, it is a high quality café with special characteristics in its taste and aroma.

Cup Profile:

Aroma: Pronounced.

Body: High and balanced.

Flavor: Intense.

Acidity: Fine with sweet notes.

Presentations:

80g. – 340g.

Café Consumo Superior

Superior Consumption Coffee

The aroma, the freshness and the balance of the flavor of cup of CAFÉ QUINDO is obtained because it is produced with selected beans from the café farms from QUINDO, traditionally café deportment (region).

Presentations:

80g. – 125g. – 250g. – 500g. – 2500g

Café Instantaneo

Instant Coffee

Features

Balanced flavor and pronounced aroma.
High consistency and softness.
High performance in the preparation.

Porcessed under demanding quality-standards.

packaged in glass-Bottles, sealed with aluminium-liner to guarantee its preservation.

Presentations:

50g.

Cafecitas Galletas con Café

Coffee Cookies

Elaborated with ingredients and the best coffee in order to get a flavor with no equal.

Its packaging keeps them fresh and crispy.

Its café bean shape makes them exclusive and special to accompany a cappuccino, a cup of café, ice-cream and to prepare desserts.

Presentations:

35g. display per 8 units 100g. – 200g.

Merenguitos con Café y Macadamia

Merenguitos" with coffee and macadamia

The perfect combination of café and the macadamia nut.

Soft and crispy texture.

Hermetic its quality.

Presentations:

15g. display per 8 units 50g.

Arequipe con Café

Arequipe (milk-made dessert) with coffee

Produced under high quality standards and selected raw material. Its flavor and softness make it special for its use in pastry or sauce for ice cream.

Presentations:

40g – 50g. Kit per 6 units 230g. – 300g. – 450g.

Mermelada con mora y Café

Black berry coffee marmalade

Made of 100% fruit pulp natural, and with Café Quindio Gourmet.

No preservatives, No flavorings, 0% fat and 0% soudium.

Its balanced mixture of flavors make it appetizing for the consumption on the table, pastries, ice-cream and sauce for meat.

Presentations:

40g. – 150g. – 300g.

Chocoffes

Coff-beans, reasted and covered with chocolate.

The mixture of aroma and the flavor our café and fine chocolate.

Presentations:

50g.

Café Quindío Capsulas Catalogue

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