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El Salvador Honey Orange Bourbon SHG Special Preparation Finca Buenos Aires

Finca Buenos Aires lies near the town of El Congo, on the cordillera de Apaneca-Ilamatepec, at an average altitude of 1,200 meters above sea level. 25 hectares of land rise high above the Caldera de Coatepeque, with a stunning view on the Volcán de Santa Ana, the highest volcano of El Salvador.
The name Buenos Aires (Spanish: nice winds) reflects the privileged location where this finca finds itself, blessed by kind and gentle breezes.
Finca Buenos Aires is owned since 2014 by don Ricardo Kriete, descendant of a long-tradition of Salvadoran coffee producers and great enthusiast for nature and high-profile coffee.
The finca has a long-standing reputation, partly due to its exquisitely maintained old Orange and Red Bourbon trees, grown protected by the shade of native trees. The Bourbon is a natural mutation of the Typica, one of the earliest and most important coffee varieties, and it is spread worldwide: the Red, Yellow and Orange (sometimes known as Pink) Bourbon are varieties with natural mutation of one recessive gene, named after the color of the berry.
The coffee is carefully harvested by hand and meticulously sorted before being delivered for processing to the mill. All processing by-products are collected, environmentally processed and reused as organic fertilizer. A rainwater harvesting system allows to reuse the rainwater in the washed processing method.
The region’s rich dark soils and blessed climate make the perfect environment for a coffee with a spectacular cup quality and wonderful aroma.
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El Salvador Washed Pacamara SHG Special Preparation Finca Las Luces

Finca Las Luces lies on the cordillera de Apaneca-Ilamatepec, with a stunning view on the Volcán de Santa Ana, the highest volcano of El Salvador, at between 1250 to 1350 meters above sea level.
Don Alfredo Pacas, El Salvadoran coffee veteran whose name do not need any introduction, acquired Finca Las Luces in 1992. He soon replanted the original Tekisik variety, an offshoot of Bourbon, with Pacamara, more adequate to the microclimate and altitude of the area, as well as for the agobio pruning method. The Pacamara coffee variety is a cross between the Pacas, the natural mutation of the Bourbon variety discovered by don Fernando Alberto Pacas Figueroa in El Salvador in 1949, and Maragogipe, the mutation of Typica with very large cherries: as the latter one, the beans of the Pacamara variety are very big, with striking sugary sweetness and florals notes. The agobio is a pruning method where branches are bent in order to provoke new growth of productive branches, using the well-developed root system that the plant already has.
Charismatic siblings Maria and Alfredo Pacas personify the company’s values of responsibility, respect and integrity, with a healthy dose of fun thrown in.
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El Salvador Washed SHG Special Preparation Finca La Esperanza

The environment of Finca La Esperanza is pretty unique: on the top of Volcán de San Salvador with a magnificent view over the Valle de Zapotitán, it jealously preserves the wildlife treasury of the near Parque Nacional El Boqueron protected by the shadow of centuries-old Mescal trees (Sophora secundiflora).
Besides a fauna sanctuary, Finca La Esperanza preserves the botanical treasure of its coffee varieties. Unlike other fincas in the region that abandoned the traditional Bourbon and Pacas varieties to other ones more resistant to roya (Hemileia vastatrix, a fungus that causes the coffee leaf rust), La Esperanza has kept the original Arabigo, a genetical evolution of the Typica very common in the early plantations of the late 1800s, when coffee was introduced in America.
The production process is approached with an integrated farm management system. Harvesting is carried out by hand when the cherries are at the peak of their ripeness, to ensure that the maximum potential of the aromatic characteristics of coffee is expressed.
The meticulous work of the men and women working in harvesting and processing, the highest elevation, the special microclimate and the volcanic soil are the main features that characterizes the aroma and cup profile of the gourmet coffees produced by this finca.
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Honduras White Honey Caracolito Limited Selection Finca Rio Colorado

The acquisition of Finca Rio Colorado represents the first step of the Umami Area Honduras project, an organization founded in 2017 by an international group of adventurous professionals driven by the willingness to show to the coffee world the potential of a true sustainable integrated farm management system.
Located in a valley in the cordillera de Celaque, western Honduras, this 46-hectares coffee plantation is bounded on its northern and southern sides by two rivers one of which, the Rio Colorado, names the finca itself.
The plantation host exclusively Arabica trees, whose majority is up to forty-years old and belongs to the early plantations when coffee was introduced in the country. Umami Area Honduras has mandated the DNA-Analytica lab in Trieste to carry-out genetic analysis for the DNA profiling of the botanical variety of the trees, planning to start a renovation and rejuvenation program, and the conversion of production to organic agriculture.
As the local communities have always lived in symbiosis with their territory, so this coffee estate does: Finca Rio Colorado emphasize the preservation of natural resources, the sustainability of its production process, the social responsibility for all the people involved in the production, and supports a re-forestation program aiming to preserve the local eco-system, the biodiversity and water river protection.
Finca Rio Colorado is involved in many social projects for the local community, such as the creation of a virtual library for children and young people, the development of policies and training courses on the child labor prevention, the creation of a youth soccer academy, the support to rural clinics for the financing of medical personnel and supplies, the creation of medical teams dedicated to the vaccinations in the most internal areas, and much more.