El Salvador | La Cumbre | SL34 | Honey | Filter | 200g

Origin

• 🇸🇻 El Salvador

Tasting notes

Character

• Sweet
  50
• Comforting
  25

Farm: La Cumbre Region: Santa Ana Elevation: 1500 - 1550 masl Varietal: SL34SL34SL28's sibling selection, also from Kenya's Scott Labs. Slightly less celebrated but hardier, with a similar juicy, complex cup. Process: HoneyHoney processThe skin is removed but some sticky fruit mucilage is left on during drying. Lands between washed and natural: more sweetness and body than washed, cleaner than natural. Notes: Yellow peach, honey, & caramel About: Welcome to the elite. Three rare and exotic varieties straight from Finca la Cumbre in El Salvador. Orange BourbonBourbonOne of the two foundational arabica varieties (with Typica), named after Île Bourbon (Réunion). Sweet, balanced, caramel-leaning; parent of countless modern cultivars., and the very prized African varieties SL28SL28A Kenyan variety selected in the 1930s by Scott Agricultural Laboratories, prized for intense blackcurrant acidity and deep sweetness. and SL34 are the guardians of true flavour here. For 2019 they have undergone naturalNatural processThe whole cherry is dried with the fruit still on the seed. Gives heavier body and big fruit flavors — think berries and wine — sometimes with a fermenty edge. processing for the very first time, and they are screaming with flavour. Under the watchful eyes of Emilio Lopez, La Cumbre took out 1st place in the 2018 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.. Award winning coffees are in the cusp of your hand.