Wholesale - Kelvin Piñeda - Santa Barbara - Honduras - Washed Anaerobic

Origin

• 🇭🇳 Honduras

Tasting notes

Character

• Experimental
  50
• Funky
  40

Kelvin Piñeda FINCA LA ARIANITA Santa Barbara, Honduras Process: WashedWashed processThe fruit is removed from the seed before drying, usually with fermentation and a water rinse. Tends to give clean, transparent cups where origin character shows clearly. AnaerobicAnaerobic fermentationCherries or depulped seeds ferment in sealed, oxygen-free tanks. Produces intense, unusual flavors — cinnamon, bubblegum, boozy fruit — that divide opinion. Varietal: Pacas Producer: Kelvin Piñeda Altitude: 1713 MASL Region: Los Andes, El Cedral Municipality, Santa Barbara SCA: 87.25 About Kelvin Pineda Kelvin grew up around coffee, but responsibility arrived early. After his father died in 2010, he stepped into an adult life carrying far more than most young producers ever should. For several years, selling vegetables made more sense than coffee: it moved faster, paid sooner, and helped keep food on the table for his mother and siblings. When he returned to coffee in 2017, it was not a romantic return to origin. It was a deliberate decision to build something steadier, more valuable and long lasting. That same year, after acquiring a small parcel through his father-in-law, he produced his first specialty lot and it was outstanding. In Santa Bárbara, such beginnings matter and are often visible. Kelvin is part of the extended circle around his brother in law - Elio Díaz and Beneficio San Vicente — a network that has helped give Santa Bárbara growers a route into the specialty market without separating quality from family, or agriculture from community. As Elio’s health made farm work more difficult in 2020, Kelvin took on more of the management and gradually became the working force most closely associated with La Arianita. A farm named after his oldest daughter (picture below). Farm location: Honduras Altitude: 1670 - 1760 masl Processing: washed / anaerobic VarietyVariety (cultivar)The botanical subtype of the coffee plant — Gesha, Bourbon, SL28 — analogous to grape varieties in wine. A major driver of cup character alongside origin and process.: Pacas In 2019, one of Kelvin's coffees — a washed BourbonBourbonOne of the two foundational arabica varieties (with Typica), named after Île Bourbon (Réunion). Sweet, balanced, caramel-leaning; parent of countless modern cultivars. from Los Andes — received the highest score in the Best of Honduras Late Harvest, breaking 90 points. I was able to buy this lot. Then in 2023, La Arianita placed 13th in the Honduras Cup of ExcellenceCup of Excellence (COE)A national competition and auction that identifies a country's best lots each year; winning 'COE' lots command dramatic price premiums. with a washed Pacas lot that sold for US$20.20 per pound at an auction. Those results matter, of course, but what they really show is something simpler: La Arianita is producing coffees of real quality, while staying foc