Finca Cerro Negro: Chalatenango, El Salvador
Finca Cerro Negro: Chalatenango, El Salvador
We’ve been really into coffees from El Savador lately and this one stands as a sparkling example of why. It seems to have such harmony and balance of sweetness and acidity, that shifts and morphs as the cup continues to cool. It’s the kind of coffee that causes a pause and curiosity as all the flavors dance together. Its intrigue is both simple and complex. Expect rich toffee, caramelized sugar, butterscotch tones on the front that softly fade into green raisin and crisp, sweet lime. This coffee will satisfy someone who usually drinks our tried and true house blend, Ruca, as well as someone who tends to prefer our more adventurous single origin offerings.
If you liked our Don Jaime: Chalatenango, El Salvador, you’ll love this one!
the kind of coffee that makes you pause and ponder
FROM OUR IMPORTER: Finca Cerro Negro is a 2-hectare farm with about 6,000 coffee trees, owned and operated by Luis Alonzo Hernandez. He grows a mix of varieties, including Pacas, Bourbon, and small about of the leaf-rust resistant hybrid Catimor 90. The coffees are Washed process, picked and depulped before a dry fermentation of between 8–16 hours, after which the coffee is washed and dried on patios for 6–8 days. When he was younger, Luis Alonso hated working on his grandmother's coffee farm, and he never thought he'd work with coffee himself: Now, after 10 years as a grower, he feels like he has grown into coffee, and he feels like it has meaning because coffee touches everyone in the world. He hopes to expand his farm area, and to plant more Pacamara and some Gesha trees as well.
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