El Salvador La Montana 12oz Bag- Roasted Mondays Only
Used to win Roaster of the Year!
Rated 92 by Ken Davids of Coffee Review for its "Deep floral and sweet citrus aroma with hints of toast. Well-integrated acidity, with medium body and a silky mouthfeel. Complex yet delicate flavor notes include cherry, citrus, flowers and muted nut, with a long syrupy sweet finish."
This large bean Pacamara varietal is another Coffee Klatch Direct-Trade coffee. This comes from our friend Raul 'Beto' Ochoa of Finca La Montana. Last year this coffee finished first in the El Salvador Cup of Excellence and we all really loved it. We visited Beto in January after the cyclone hit much of Central America and particularly his farm. While much of his crop was destroyed, we were able to secure this coffee and are helping Beto to rebuild his farm. The beans are vacuum packed in 10 kilo foil bags to preserve their quality throughout the year.
Finca La Montana is nested in the Chalatenango department, within the coffee region known as Alotepec-Metapan mountain range. La Montana farm is cultivated with Bourbon, Pacas and Pacamara varieties, grown under a canopy of shade trees. The farm altitude is 1,385 meters above sea level and coffee grows on very fertile clay loam soils under ecological-friendly cultural practices that include organic fertilization.
Raul inherited an uncultured land from his father many years ago, in 1986 he begun growing coffee with seeds bought in the extinct ISIC, the institute which was responsible to create the Pacamara hybrid from the cross between Red Maragogipe and local Pacas variety. At the beginning he was growing only Bourbon and Pacas, and as few as 3 1-pound bags of Pacamara seeds, it was not until 1999 that he did Pacamara nurseries again, taken from seeds selected from those earlier seeds that he recognized as Pacamara varietal.
