EL SALVADOR | Los Bellotos | Gato Cervantes | Red Bourbon | Anaerobic Washed

Origin

• 🇸🇻 El Salvador

Tasting notes

Character

• Experimental
  50
• Funky
  40

Finca Los Bellotos is a magical place. High up in the mountains, close to the Santa Ana volcano and shrouded in mist for most of the day due to the cool breeze from the Pacific Ocean, it overlooks the picture-perfect Lake Coatepeque. Made famous as the place where the super rare Bernardina 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. was discovered, Los Bellotos has even more to offer. The highest tablon on the farm is named ‘Gato Cervantes', after the Civet cats native to the area. On this high misty tablon, the Pacas family grow Bernardina and Red BourbonBourbonOne of the two foundational arabica varieties (with Typica), named after Île Bourbon (Réunion). Sweet, balanced, caramel-leaning; parent of countless modern cultivars.. This coffee was fermented twice, first in sealed vats at 26 degrees Celsius for 48 hours and then submerged under water for 24 hours, before being slowly dried on the patio. Farm manager, Ruperto Bernardino Merche, believes there’s a special type of magic that lives at Los Bellotos, which is why the coffees are so special. This coffee is wild and tropical, with a marzipan sweetness.