In 1978, three Japanese musicians, Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki, and Tatsuro Yamashita, gathered to record an album called Pacific. None of them had spent much time in the tropics. What they were chasing wasn't a place, exactly, it was a feeling. The warmth of somewhere far away, conjured entirely through music. The album became one of the defining records of Japanese City Pop, a document of a summer that existed only in imagination.
That's the spirit we wanted to carry into this coffee.
Pacific is our limited edition, a coffee built not just to taste a certain way, but to create an experience. Inside each bag, you'll find a card with a QR code linking to a curated playlist: City Pop, Exotica, jazz fusion, and tropical sounds, anchored around that 1978 album. The idea is simple: press play while you brew. Let the music and the cup arrive together.
The coffee itself comes from Los Patios, a processing facility in La Plata, Huila, established in 2022 and built as a genuine hub of coffee research and development. Since April 2023, Los Patios has been home to a dedicated R&D team led by Juliana Serna and Alberto Gutierrez, working to push the boundaries of processing while preserving the physical quality of the bean. This lot is the result of that work, a Castillo co-fermentation designed to evoke something specific: lemon on ice, a hint of coconut, a long summer afternoon.