Café de Santa Barbara is a family - owned company dedicated to the production and export of Colombian estate coffee. The family’s beginnings in the coffee business date from the early 20th century, when Don Alejandro Angel (great grandfather to the current g eneration) became the first major exporter of Colombian coffee. Foreseeing the enormous potential for the Colombian crop, in the times when Colombian coffee did not have the reputation that it holds now, he sought to convince the European and American trad ers that the distinctive qualities of our Arabica coffee made it worthy of recognition and admiration by the coffee roasters of the world. He succeeded beyond his contemporaries’ imagination, opened new markets and became the largest Colombian coffee expor ter of his time.