Guatemala La Esmeralda Coffee

This is a fresh crop, like-for-like replacement for San Antonio. We are continuing to work with the same exporter to bring you coffee from this new farm in the same region. Expect a similar tasting coffee: deliciously creamy as an espresso yet delicate and fruity as a filter - an excellent all-rounder with a lingering sweet finish. Thanks to our customers and The Independent voting our Guatemala as one of the best coffees in the UK, we have increased the amount we have bought from this region for the past three years.

Don Crispin Matias lives with his wife Margarita and their six children. He explains that he came up with the name of his farm ‘The Emerald’ because he noticed that he had these beautiful gems on his farm. Crispin grew up in the country side and has always loved agriculture. However, before having his own farm, he used to have a grocery shop. At a certain moment he realised that his heart was with producing crops and decided to sell the shop and buy some land to start his coffee farm. Nowadays he feels proud on his work and achievements in the farm. He is also an active member of the ASIAST, a coffee producer association in his town. Crispin’s coffee consists of all ripe harvested cherries that are de-pulped on the very same day of picking. The coffee is then fermented for two days and washed in the early morning. The beans are soaked in clean, cold water (with constant circulation of fresh water). After soaking, the coffee is then sun dried for five days on patios.

• CHOCOLATE, LEMON CHEESECAKE, VANILLA
• LA ESMERALDA, HUEHUETENANGO
• ARABICA
• WASHED
• PACHES, BOURBON AND SARCHIMOR
• 1550 MASL