Tasting Notes: Mandarin, Cocoa, Vanilla
Variety: Pacamara
Processing: Washed
Altitude: 1800 masl
Origin: Finca El Zapote, Guatemala
Another great coffee from Julio's Finca El Zapote. This super clean coffee remains true to this farm's innovative, future-focused approach to coffee. Julio is one of our long-standing farming partners. We've yet to meet another agronomist as skilled as he is. He uses 20 years worth of carefully collected weather data to reference each crop against.
What is Pacamara? Why is it so special? The Pacamara variety is an intraspecific hybrid developed out of a breeding program housed at El Salvador's Institute for Coffee Research that started back in the 1950s. The two parents of its partial namesake, "PACA - MARA", are Pacas and Maragogype. Both are mutations. The Pacas variety, a natural mutation of the Bourbon variety, was discovered on the San Rafael farm in Santa Ana and is prized for its shorter size and increased productivity. Whereas Maragogype, a mutation of Typica, was sought after for its large bean size and excellent cup quality. After more than thirty years of artificially cross breeding selections and evaluating the progeny for desirable traits, the selected lines were combined to obtain the Pacamara variety, an exotic combination of productivity in the field and quality in the cup.
This coffee is a fully washed coffee that results in a clean, sweet and balanced profile with deep complexity. We taste mandarin orange, cocoa, and vanilla.
