Evin Moreno SL28, Honduras

Origin

• 🇭🇳 Honduras

Tasting notes

Character

• Clean
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In the community of El Cedral, Evin Moreno and his family are renowned for their unique and vibrant coffees. Early on in his coffee growing, Evin set himself apart by focusing on processing his coffee differently – he combines the anaroebic style of fermenting whole cherries in buckets with 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. by depulping the cherries and fermenting them in tanks. This method allows for the vibrancy of a washed process coffee alongside the juiciness of an anaroebic process. This lot, the SL-28SL28A Kenyan variety selected in the 1930s by Scott Agricultural Laboratories, prized for intense blackcurrant acidity and deep sweetness. 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., is tea like, tangy, and sweet. Evin Moreno’s farm is not only one of the most photogenic in the area, peeking out from the hills above the village of El Cedral, but the impeccable care he takes at every step makes his harvests some of the finest in Honduras.