The traditional, award winning Esmeralda Special comes from the area known as Mario. This year, north and south of the creek are not separated, and the coffee is grouped by harvest dates. At Klatch we have the Mario Pascua, Harvested during the month of April, Easter month in 2009. Mandarin oranges, jasmine and sugar cane are some of the late harvest cupping notes.
From the world famous coffee estate, Hacienda La Esmeralda is holder of 3 world-record auction prices including the unheard of $130/lb final winning bid in 2007.
Our 2008 crop received a 94 from Ken Davids with Coffee Review who stated "Sweetly bright aroma, with tight-knit complexity: flowers, cocoa, honey, aromatic wood. In the cup lightly syrupy in mouthfeel, sweetly and lushly acidy but superbly balanced, with deep-toned night floral notes, orangy citrus and continued hints of cocoa and aromatic wood. Rich, flavor-saturated finish with a very slight astringency essentially lost in flowers."
