PRE-ORDER · Luna Azul | Black Honey Colombian Coffee Grown by Andrés Cardona

Pre-order — ships early November 2026

Grown and processed by Andrés Cardona. Luna Azul is a black honey Colombian coffee off Finca La Ilusión, Andrés's own eight-hectare farm in Santa Bárbara, Antioquia — the same land as Primer Paso, our dedicated hectare.

How it's processed

Black honey. The cherries ferment for a full week in open tanks, then are depulped without water so the sticky mucilage stays on the bean. From there the coffee dries on raised beds for one to three weeks, weather depending, down to 11% moisture. Leaving that fruit layer intact through drying is what builds the sweetness and body a black honey is known for.

Details

• Producer: Andrés Cardona
• Farm: Finca La Ilusión, Santa Bárbara, Antioquia, Colombia
• Altitude: 1,522 masl
• Varieties: Castillo & Colombia
• Process: Black honey
• Expected profile: Blueberry, dark chocolate, syrupy body

Same trees, three answers

This harvest was split about evenly three ways. Luna Azul, Red Sunset, and Purple Honey are the same fruit off the same trees, taken in three completely different directions in the wet mill. Drink all three and you are tasting processing, not terroir. We can't think of a better way to understand what Andrés actually does.

A different Luna Azul

If you've had Luna Azul before, this one is new. Earlier crops came off Villa Lucía, the family farm up the road that Andrés was working before he struck out on his own — that's the coffee that took an Honorable Mention at the 2026 Global Coffee Awards. This is the first Luna Azul grown on his own land.

Grown and processed by Andrés

Andrés farms eight hectares at Finca La Ilusión — the land he moved to when he left the family farm to focus on processing. Needing a mechanical dryer for that move is what led to the trade that gave us the Primer Paso hectare.

On August 14, 2026 we committed to every lot from all eight hectares. His largest harvest ever, already picked.

He also buys cherry from neighboring farms and processes it on site, and he is very good at it. These lots are different: grown and processed by Andrés, on his own trees. When we buy coffee he grew rather than coffee he processed for somebody else, the grower's share and the processor's share both stay with him.

What we put back

Year two of our five-year agreement funds an agronomy program run by Sandra Tamayo, an agricultural engineer who walks the field rows and then cups the results herself. Soil sampling analyzed at the National University of Colombia in Medellín, a nutrition plan, phenological monitoring, harvest forecasting. Every report, score sheet, invoice, and soil test is published on our farm page.

How pre-orders work — the honest timeline

The container reaches us in late October 2026. Then it needs roasting, and then it needs resting — coffee is better several days off the roaster than it is on day one, and we are not going to ship you something that hasn't settled.

Realistically, that puts a bag in your hands in early November. You're charged at checkout, and we'll email you the roast date before it ships. If anything slips at origin or in customs, we'll tell you rather than leave you wondering.

Read more about washed, natural, and honey processing on the blog.