Guatemala Palencia Finca La Pia La Aurora Washed

Tasting notes: Caramel fragrance, sweet almond aroma, notes of milk chocolate, mandarin orange, sugar icing, with a fresh aftertaste of orange blossoms, bright citrus acidity, medium bodied with a silky mouthfeel. Very sweet and well balanced.

The “La Aurora” lot is sorted by cupping each of the picking days on the farm. The highest cupping day-lots and nano-lots are separated to build the La Aurora lot. 

The Finca La Piafarm is located near La Joya Larga in Palencia, Guatemala, which is part of Fraijanes Plateau Region. Coffee at Finca La Pia is grown at approximately 1,700 to 1,800 meters above sea level.

Finca La Pia has a history of quality with multiple top 20 Cup Of Excellence finishes most recently in 2020 with a score of over 87 points.

Don Victor Calderon is the owner of Finca La Pia and implements a variety of very interesting cultivation techniques. Along similar lines of thought to “dry farms” or “natural wines” in the wine industry, Don Victor believes that the coffee plants should receive as little input as possible and uses only natural or organic methods to manage the plant health. Unlike many coffee farms around the world, Don Victor does not feed trees with fertilizers and instead uses a California red worm compost, manure and nitrogen fixating plants to keep the soil healthy. To manage the coffee leaf rust, “la roya”, Victor does not use typical sprays but instead applies bentonite clay, which is found naturally in the soil on the farm, on to the coffee leaves. This practice, combined with the organic plant nutrition management yields highly resistant coffee trees with great quality potential!