2019 Mario Moreno; Mas Morenos - Honduras

Origin

• 🇭🇳 Honduras

Tasting notes

Character

• Clean
  30

Please note that weekly orders are roasted onRoast date / restingSpecialty bags carry the roast date, not a best-before. Coffee needs days to degas CO₂ after roasting ('resting') and is typically best within weeks, not months. Tuesday and shipped on Wednesday. This is our second year buying this coffee from the Moreno family. It is a field blendBlendCoffees from multiple origins roasted or mixed together for a consistent, balanced profile year-round — the traditional backbone of espresso menus. of lots from seven of their farms. This coffee is sweetness-focused, and has excellent depth of structure and balance. Country: Honduras Region: Santa Bárbara 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.: Pacas, Cataui Altitude: 1650 masl Harvest: May 2019 Processing: Harvested at peak ripeness. Floated. Depulped. Dry fermented for 24 hours. 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.. Dried on raised beds for 16 days. ABOUT MAS MORENOS We have been working with the Moreno family for three years now, and they consistently produce some of the highest quality coffees in Honduras. However, coffee production is difficult and complicated and harvest happens over—at times—up to a 3-month period. The harvest this year was particularly small, and some of the lots from members of the Moreno family weren't large enough to create an exportable lot out of. As a supporting partner of this producing family, we decided to take these extra small lots and blend them together to create this blend in order that we could buy the coffee at a sustainable price. We don't often offer blends, and we believe strongly in offering our customers the chance to taste coffee from the smallest lots from single producers. We believe in terroirTerroirBorrowed from wine: the way a place — soil, altitude, climate, even neighboring crops — expresses itself in the cup, independent of variety and process. and we source and roast in an effort to offer a transparent window into the soil, rain, sun, and work that comes together to make each coffee we choose to work with individual and unique. Mas Morenos, however, is what we refer to as a 'regional blend’—and this one is particularly close to our hearts. Contains 250g of delicious coffee.