Location: Finca Plan Del Hoyo, Ilamatepec, Apaneca
Landed: August 2024
Altitude: 1,760 masl
Varietal: Anacafe 14
Process: Washed
Flavour profile: Red berries, vanilla cookies & clove
Category: Christmas
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This is our third year working with a wonderful lot from El Salvador for our Christmas Single Origin. They offer a great coffee to brew over the festive season, a complex easy drinker to sit back and enjoy brew after brew. This years lot is from Finca Plan De Hoyo.
FINCA PLAN DEL HOYO
Francisco De Sola owns and operates this 100 hectare farm. He has 60,000 trees planted on 14 hectares. He also grows lumber on this large chunk of land.
They Typically harvest coffee here from January through March. Coffee is picked as ripe cherry then mechanically demucilaged (for washed) and left as ripe cherry for naturals and dried on raised African beds (both washed and naturals).
Picking labor and heavy rains have proven to be a challenge for Francisco, but he believes in the future of specialty coffee and is invested in producing exceptional coffees in Apaneca. This lot is a great example of his hard work, a complex washed lot worth sitting back and enjoying over the festive holidays.
Enjoy our Christmas duo (Francisco De Sola our Christmas single origin with our Christmas blend - Noelcore Espresso) together, alternatively they will make a great Christmas present! Happy festive brewing.
EL SALVADOR
Known as “the land of volcanoes,” El Salvador is the smallest Central American country (roughly the same size as New Jersey), but its reputation among specialty-coffee-growing regions has grown larger-than-life, especially since the early 2000s. While coffee was planted and cultivated here mostly for domestic consumption starting in the mid-1700s, it became a stable and significant crop over the next 100 years, notably increasing in national importance during the late 1800s, when the country’s indigo exports were threatened by the development and widespread marketability of synthetic dyes.
It is often said that the Cup of Excellence competition, which came to El Salvador in 2003, was the beginning of the new “wave” of interest in Salvadoran coffee, shining the first light on some of the special varieties the small country grows.
This microlot is sourced from the Chalatenango region, in the northern part of the country. Farms here are small on average (5–15 manzanas, or roughly 3.5–10.5 hectares) and many producers grow classic Salvadoran varieties such as Pacas and Pacamara as well as Bourbon.
(In partnership with Cafe Imports)
