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This is another very good Central American coffee. It's sweet, medium bodied. Aroma is typical Central 'nutty' but with some chocolate and orange to prepare you for the dark chocolate and creamy/silky mouth feel with some caramel notes and a lingering and zesty orange acidity.

Overall: A complex cup, sweet fruit, citrus brightness, roasted nuts

Roasting notes: As always, roaster lighter rather than darker to preserve the varietal qualities. So I choose not to go further than 3-4 seconds into second crack. But the bean will happily stand a fair bit either side of that without loosing all the goodness.

Price is per Kg plus packing and freight where applicable.

Some background information on the coffee and the estate: 'Nueva Granada'.

During the harvest, Nueva Granada selects only the ripest cherries, and when the beans are in parchment form, again grades the coffees and stores them in burlap bags in a special, dry, wood-line storeroom.

Then the parchment covering is removed and Nueva Granada’s blue-green beans are carefully selected and prepared for shipment. Because Nueva Granada is a small estate farm, great care is taken in the preparation and grading of its high-grown SHB and HB Arabica coffees.

Nueva Granada has a long and well known tradition of excellence. The Volcano’s Rumble Nueva Granada is a deep green coffee farm in San Marcos, nestled by the two tallest volcano’s in Guatemala — Tajumulco and Tacana. Powerful blue-lavender silhouettes, Tajumulco and Tacana stand dormant — only their names rumble in the imagination.



The coffee of Nueva Granada grows high on mountainous slopes in soil made rich by volcanic ash. Shade-grown Coffee Shade trees provide a sanctuary for migrating and local birds as well as for small wildlife. They protect the coffee plants from the tropical sun, hold the earth and enrich it with their leaves. Already a shaded farm with macadamia trees giving part of the shade, Nueva Granada has planted over 30,000 additional trees since joining the Rainforest Alliance program.

Three mountain springs are a blessing for the farm and provide abundant spring water for coffee processing. Wildlife Corridors Rainforest Alliance has taught them to protect the rivers and streams of Nueva Granada by letting the bordering vegetation grow thick and uncut. This also provides corridors for small wild animals throughout the farm.

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