About the coffee
- Cupping notes: Sweet, with balanced body and acidity, notes of butterscotch, pear, and red apple.
- Cultivation: Grown at high elevations in the El Progreso region in central Guatemala
- Altitude: 5,000 feet
- Tree type: Bourbon, Catuai, Caturra
- Preparation: Washed, sun-dried on patios
About the people who grow it
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Finca Las Moritas is located in San Antonio La Paz in the department of El Progreso in Guatemala. The farm is located on one of the highest non-volcanic mountain chains in Guatemala and is owned by Jose Higinio Gómez and his wife Aura Libia de Jesús Gómez Garcia. The farm produces several varietals of coffee, including Bourbon, Pache San Ramon, Castillo, Pacamara, and Red Bourbon. The humid, forested microclimate of the farm coupled with the high altitude gives character to the coffee produced there.
Don Jose and Doña Aura went east to the Sierra de las Minas, not far from the border of Honduras, and established their first coffee farm in 1988 with about an acre of land in a place called Las Moritas. Today, they harvest coffee from more than 150 acres in Las Moritas, a community that has grown from a place with just a few potato farms to a thriving coffee community where hundreds of families have settled to work, built a school, and open other businesses. Cherry from Las Moritas is taken to La Esperanza, a mill with its own storied history of receiving and processing cherry.
The Gomez family agriculture is not only their business. They are committed to preserving and improving the environment and quality of life for their community.
Don Jose and Doña Aura went east to the Sierra de las Minas, not far from the border of Honduras, and established their first coffee farm in 1988 with about an acre of land in a place called Las Moritas. Today, they harvest coffee from more than 150 acres in Las Moritas, a community that has grown from a place with just a few potato farms to a thriving coffee community where hundreds of families have settled to work, built a school, and open other businesses. Cherry from Las Moritas is taken to La Esperanza, a mill with its own storied history of receiving and processing cherry.
The Gomez family agriculture is not only their business. They are committed to preserving and improving the environment and quality of life for their community.