Patricio Navarro

Origin

• 🇭🇳 Honduras

Tasting notes

Character

• Clean

This is a special coffee. Last year we purchased Angel Arturo Paz' Honduran COECup of Excellence (COE)A national competition and auction that identifies a country's best lots each year; winning 'COE' lots command dramatic price premiums. winner "El Itacayo". We became fast friends with him, and he set out to find more delicious Honduran coffees for Prodigal. Enter Patricio Navarro. Patricio submitted this lot to the Cup Of Excellence this year, and Angel sent us a sample from a small portion held separately from the COE auction. We loved it and snatched it up immediately. In the following weeks of COE tastings, Patricio's coffee rose above and secured 2nd place in the Traditional category! We're lucky to have this coffee ahead of the COE auction which takes place July 16. We're enjoying this coffee's ripe flavors of apricot, green grape, and melon. We even have a few rested bags from our subscription roast! The cherries were hand harvested at peak ripeness, then rested in sealed bags for three days at the wet millWashing stationA central mill where many smallholder farmers deliver cherry for processing. In Ethiopia, Kenya, and Rwanda the station name (e.g. Idido) often identifies the coffee.. After that fermentation, the cherries were pulped and held in bags again for three more days. Then the cherries were 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. thoroughly four times, yet a tenacious bit of mucilage remained, therefore this lot is considered "semiwashed". The processing culminated in 18 days of drying on raised beds. Even with these processing steps, this coffee tastes immaculately clean. Process: Semi-Washed Region: Lempira, Honduras 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.: TypicaTypicaThe oldest cultivated arabica lineage, ancestor of most Latin American coffee. Low yield, clean and sweet cup; the baseline other varieties are measured against. Make sure to check that the roast dateRoast date / restingSpecialty bags carry the roast date, not a best-before. Coffee needs days to degas CO₂ after roasting ('resting') and is typically best within weeks, not months. you've selected is what you're looking for — if there is an "upcoming roast" for this coffee, the upcoming roast date is listed under the tasting notesTasting notesThe flavors a roaster perceives in the cup — 'jasmine, apricot, black tea'. Descriptive associations, not ingredients: nothing is added to the coffee. at the top of this product page. Please read our shipping info page!