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Coffee & farm: Santa Ana

Country: GUATEMALA

Farmer: Guadamur, S. A.

COE Rank: 15

City: Pueblo Nuevo Viñas, Santa Rosa

Altitude: 1676 feet above sea level

Variety: Bourbón, Catuaí

Lot Size: 32 boxes

We have one of only two boxes of this extraordinary coffee to come to Australia! Don't miss out.

 

Cupping notes & profile:

Aroma/Flavor – walnut, chocolate, roasted nuts, vanilla, graham cracker, honey. caramel, Acidity- delicate, bright, crisp, malic, Notes: transparent, creamy body.



In the cup: Very clean, with a creamy body, honey sweetness, and notes of toasted walnuts, caramel and chocolate.

Farm background:

Finca Santa Ana is beautifully located in Pueblo Nuevo Viñas, within the Department of Santa Rosa, perfectly located between two volcanoes the Tecuamburro and Pacaya, and abreast of the La Gavia Mountains. Rising to an altitude of 1770 meters (5400 feet) it is immersed in damp, wet tropical forest belonging to the Fraijanes Plateau Region.



Finca Santa Ana holds within its boundaries a coffee plantation that covers 80 hectares of fertile soil, all belonging to the descendants of Don Lizandro, a landowner and coffee grower since the eighteenth century.  Don Lizandro inherited not only the tradition of

cultivating coffee, but also the family technique of conserving coffee in its entire natural harmony, maintaining and preserving rivers, forests and mountains, confirming the ecological mission they still have today.



The balance between flora and fauna has been achieved by using the Gravilea, Cuje and Chalun tress that provide the coffee plantation with a completely natural shade. 

Likewise, the use of symmetrically outlined curves, all drawn at the same height, prevents erosion of the mountainous terrain, which is a product of a mixture of virgin soil and volcanic dust. Alongside each generation, the coffee has also matured and achieved International Quality Standards becoming what we know today as the name brand Santa Ana. The combination of its altitude, rain, water, “beneficiado” (processing method) and varieties (bourbon, catuai and pache) classify the coffee’s bean as strictly hard.

The expert and skilled hands of the campesinos that work in Finca Santa Ana are able to pick the coffee bean with the tenderness of a child and the precision of an eagle, without damaging the coffee plant for future reaps.

The process of stripping the plantation of its pulp and being dried by the sun on the patio floor is carefully supervised. Finally the bean becomes oro verde (green gold) where its taste, aroma and richness makes Santa Ana the name brand that goes beyond the Guatemalan borders sharing its excellent quality.

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