Honduras Caballero Family Experimental

Origin

• 🇭🇳 Honduras

Tasting notes

Character

• Experimental
  50
• Funky
  40

It is no coincidence that the Caballero Family has produced more than 20 winning lots 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. competition since 2004 — it is one of the hardest-working and most restlessly innovative families in Honduran coffee. This lot is the result of one of its most recent experiments: freshly harvested coffee cherries are sealed in what the family calls "semi-anaerobicAnaerobic fermentationCherries or depulped seeds ferment in sealed, oxygen-free tanks. Produces intense, unusual flavors — cinnamon, bubblegum, boozy fruit — that divide opinion." conditions for three days before resuming the traditional washed processWashed 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..