Honduras - Dolmin Moreno - La Orquidea Pacas | Honey - Archived

Origin

• 🇭🇳 Honduras

Tasting notes

Character

• Sweet
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Aug 19 2024 - Sept 12 2024 Dolmin Moreno has his own farms and the Moreno family a rich and long history of coffee growing in Honduras. For this particular 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. lot he grew the coffee on the storied La Orquidea farm which the Moreno family co-owns with Benjamin Paz. This is the same farm that our Recent Pacas 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. lot from Benjamin was grown on. The villages Cielito, Cedral and Las Flores follow one after another along the mountain range in Santa Barbara. Grown on this hillside is mostly Pacas, a coffee species akin to BourbonBourbonOne of the two foundational arabica varieties (with Typica), named after Île Bourbon (Réunion). Sweet, balanced, caramel-leaning; parent of countless modern cultivars., as well as Yellow CatuaíCatuaíA Brazilian cross of Mundo Novo and Caturra: short, productive, storm-resistant. Sweet, mild, dependable — everywhere in Brazil and Central America. and Pacamara. Pacas is a 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. mutation of Bourbon , similar to CaturraCaturraA natural dwarf mutation of Bourbon found in Brazil: compact plants, easier picking, bright and clean cup. A workhorse across Latin America. in Brazil and Villa Sarchi in Costa Rica. Similar to other widely cultivated Bourbon mutants, Pacas has a single-gene mutation that causes the plant to grow smaller leading to higher potential yields and the possibility of placing plants closer together to increase total fruit production on a farm. The 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 in 1949 on a farm owned by the Pacas family in the Santa Ana region of El Salvador.