El Salvador Premium Norelvia Flores – Finca Milady – Pacamara Washed

Burman Coffee Traders

Details

Origin

El Salvador

Process

Washed

Roast Suitability

Description

I always love the Pacamara strain of coffee. Pacamara is a 100% Arabica cross between Pacas, and Maragogype. Pacas is a very sweet strain of coffee, while Margogype has giant beans and a more robust cup profile, often a bit on the rustic dark toned side. The cup adopts the best attributes of both. This is a classic premium “washed” processed bean, but by appearance, almost looks a bit like a honey processed, may have spent a little time in the mucilage (fruit) before being run through the washed processing. Beautiful prep and pretty mainstream tastes. A hint of a sweet fruity upfront at lighter roasts, citric fruitiness rather than the natural processed red-fruit or ferment like tones of the natural processed. A good creamy cup with rich, sweet and smooth tastes. Best around a medium roast. This El Salvador Pacamara is grown by Norelvia Flores at Finca Milady in Chalatenango and picked between 1,200 and 1,800 meters above sea level. Lots in this program are small enough to move in 35 kilo bags: the average grower up here turns out 5 to 100 quintales of parchment in a year, off a farm of 5 to 15 manzanas, roughly 3.5 to 10.5 hectares. The coffee is bought in parchment at the farm and a sample is pulled and cupped from every bag a producer delivers, which is how a lot this size keeps its own name instead of disappearing into a regional blend. Chalatenango is the northern edge of Salvadoran coffee, right up against the Honduran border. The denomination of origin here is Alotepec, which covers the Alotepec range from 1,000 meters up and takes in La Palma, San Ignacio and Citalá along with six other municipalities. Altitude is most of the story: Cerro El Pital sits at 2,730 meters about 12 kilometers from La Palma and is the highest and coldest point in the country, and nights that cold stretch cherry maturation out and build sugar in the seed. The region first turned heads at the 2007 Cup of Excellence, but rough roads and tiny individual volumes kept most of it out of