Nicolas Colque left home at the age of 14 with many dreams and B$100 ($14) in his pocket to start a new and a better life. He moved to Alto Beni, where he began working and was able to save enough money to buy a small lot to work. However, he never abandoned his desire to continue with his education, he later completed high school and he is currently studying accounting. In 1999, he bought 6 acres in Carrasco La Reserva, and decided to grow coffee since coffee had a good price. This young grower decided to participate in the Cup of Excellence in 2007. Although he didn’t do well, he continued to participate again in 2008 and made it to the National Winners level, where he obtained 34th place, 5 short to Cup of Excellence. Nicolas is happy with the result and says: "My goal in the 2009 competition will be to win the first place. Last year my dream was to reach to the National Auction, and that dream has being fulfilled, this year is be one of the winners”.

Nicolas admits that he had problems in growing specialty coffee, but he was able to overcome them "My greatest difficulty has been that it is a different process. Before we used to cut the trees, and burn all the organic material, and the micro organisms on the soil. Once we adopted organic management, without burning trees, we started managing the shade by thinning and planting new forest trees. Now we know and have seen the performance of the coffee production.

Nicolas will improve his production with the money received at the National Auction, "we are failing in the drying, we need Agro film. It always rains and we are at an altitude of 1500 to 1800 meters above sea level and we loose our harvest. We want to implement agro film in order to have quality coffee. "

Nicolas, in the name of his organization (ACEPA), wants to tell coffee buyers: "We offer high quality coffee, 95% Typica and 5% Caturra, and that is the most appropriate since it has more flavor and body."