Guatemala La Florida

Origin

• 🇬🇹 Guatemala

Tasting notes

Origin Story In 2020, with help from the nonprofit CRS and funding from USAID, we convened a coffee quality event for smallholderSmallholderA farmer growing coffee on a small family plot — often under two hectares. Most of the world's coffee is grown this way, typically pooled at cooperatives or washing stations. cooperatives in Guatemala that we called Intelligentsia ECWx. We were impressed with the three women who represented the COOPESQUI coop, and even more impressed with the coffee they offered us. We sourced one small lot from them that same year, and never looked back. This is the fourth consecutive year we have worked with COOPESQUI, and the coffee just keeps getting better. This lot, grown by women and sourced from an organization run by women, is the largest of the three single-originSingle originCoffee from one traceable place — a country at the loosest, a single farm or lot at the strictest — rather than a blend of sources. lots we sourced this season from COOPESQUI. Sensory The jammy sweetness of this coffee is accentuated by the soft citrus note, and is rounded out by a buttery-like texture akin to a shortbread cookie.