Description
Coffee Flavour Lime Marmalade, Milk Chocolate, Walnut
We offer coffee roasted in different forms that suit your favourite way of making coffee. If you would like your beans ground, please order and add a note at checkout stating which form you would like from the following.
Delivery Times: To ensure all coffee is as fresh as possible, we do not hold stock ourselves. Ozone is based on the same estate as us; when you order, we collect it from Ozone. This may delay shipping by one day, depending on when you order.
Beans - Roasted and ready to be freshly ground by you, for those who like to take their time.
French Press / Cafetiere - Fill and sit down, ready when you are.
Medium Filter - For coffee-machine enthusiasts who need coffee ready to go.
Espresso - Roasted and ground for those who want or need a good punch of coffee.
Coarse Filter / Jug - The classic coffee drinker who likes to brew on the stove.
Fine Filter - The finest grind possible.
Coffee Information
El Salvador: Finca Argentina, SL-28, Washed Beginning with a sweet and sticky hit of lime marmalade, the cup gains a more complex sweetness as it cools, shifting into milk chocolate, with a little shoulder of walnut. Roland last visited El Salvador in February as the harvest at Finca Argentina was just coming to an end. The farm is at a lower altitude than other producers we work with in El Salvador, so that shifts the harvests a little earlier than San Jose or Nejapa for example. He travelled with Mauricio to visit the Los Ausoles mill to cup the various fresh lots from the farm and everybody agreed that the crop was tasting terrific this year. On the table at the time the samples included a Washed and a Natural, both of which cupped very well. On The Farm Near the town of Turin, in El Salvador's Ahuachapán department, you'll find Finca Argentina. Set within the Cordillera de Apaneca-Ilamatepec and surrounded by natural hot springs, the farm sits at 1,300 metres above sea level. Its 35 hectares are divided into seven distinct areas, or tablons. Each of these plots has its own character, shaped by the landscape and the subtle differences in microclimate that come with changes in altitude, aspect, soil, and even local volcanic activity. Over time, the team at Finca Argentina have invested heavily in exploring different varietals, learning which perform best in each part of the farm. Highly Skilled Workers Throughout the growing season at Finca Argentina, individual workers are given a lot of responsibility over pruning and managing trees. On many farms, pruning would be quite regimented (for example, every other tree gets a skeleton prune in this section), whereas Finca Argentina are leaving these decisions much more up to the knowledge of the staff, deciding on a plant-by-plant basis what kind of pruning is needed when they work through an area. It is easy to ruin coffee production on trees if you don’t make the right pruning choices, so this shows a lot of trust and is only possible when they retain and develop their workers’ skills long term. El Salvador has been hit hard by the wider labour shortage impacting other Central American countries. Luckily Finca Argentina are currently managing well, but they are having to consider more ways to retain necessary numbers of staff during harvest season. The Martinez family employ 50 people during the harvest and 30 the rest of the year. They contribute labour and materials to improve infrastructure in their community’s towns, and grow 25 kg of corn annually for each person. They’re also implementing more ecological management: using compost and other organic products to minimise environmental impact, and intercropping beans to enrich the soil. Their work has improved the land’s biodiversity and cup quality, and the future for sustainable coffee from Finca Argentina is looking very bright. Clean Cup: (1-8): 6 Sweetness: (1-8): 6.5 Acidity: (1-8): 6.5 Mouthfeel: (1-8): 6.5 Flavour: (1-8): 6.5 Aftertaste: (1-8): 6.5 Balance: (1-8): 6.5 Overall: (1-8): 6 Correction: (+36): +36 Total (max 100): 87
