Our house coffee from Huehuetenango, or „city of trees“ in the Mayan language, has arrived. Fragranced with chocolate and hazelnuts, fresh and light with a mild malic acidity and a very juicy body. The aftertaste is sweet, long and pleasant with notes of honey and raisins.
Producers
The Primavera Family lot was created from 10-15 producers in the Huehuetenango region. The quality of these lots was more suited to a balanced regional blend than to offer as individual microlots, and sometimes the lots themselves are too small to present as microlots.
Primavera Green Coffee purchased these coffees to offer a wider range of quality, and the producers were able to sell more of their coffee at a better price, allowing them to invest in their farms and wet mills. They are constantly working with the producers to help them improve the quality and productivity of their farms.
The hope is that in the future they will be able to sell more of these lots as single estate coffees. For this lot, 84 and 85 point coffees were blended to create a regional blend with the classic and balanced profile of Huehuetenango. This regional lot is unique, and each Family Blend lot has full transparency and is traceable to the farm level.
Process
The process for these coffees is a traditional Washed process. The cherries are pulped and fermented overnight. The following day they are washed with clean water and then dried in the sun in the patios of each of the producers.
