Mauricio Benitez, Honduras

Origin

• 🇭🇳 Honduras

Tasting notes

Character

• Clean
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High up on the slopes of the Santa Barbara mountain, his Pacas and BourbonBourbonOne of the two foundational arabica varieties (with Typica), named after Île Bourbon (Réunion). Sweet, balanced, caramel-leaning; parent of countless modern cultivars. coffee plants truly thrive. This lot was processed in a traditional 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. manner at La Piñona before being dried on raised beds at the top of the farm. One of the highest farms in the region, the coffees here develop slowly and dry gently. All of these details combined, this is one of the cleanest, brightest coffees we’ve tasted on the mountain! Around a decade ago, Mauricio Benitez started growing coffee on a piece of land sectioned off a the top of his father’s farm, La Piñona.