El Salvador - Finca Los Angeles

Flavour Notes:

Tropical Fruit / Melon / Floral / Champagne acidity

• COUNTRY:  El Salvador
  
• REGION:     Apaneca-Ahuachapán
  
• FARM:         Finca Los Angeles
  
• VARIETY:     Pacamara
  
• ALTITUDE:   1300 - 1400 Masl
  
• PROCESS:   Natural
  
• ROAST:       Medium

Recommended Brewing Methods

Filter / Chemex / Pour Over / Cold Brew

This is the second high-quality coffee we've brought in from Los Naranjos Café. We loved Finca Noruega for its sweetness and clean cup,  and now with Finca Los Angeles we are delighted by its fruitiness and floral notes

ABOUT THE FARM

Finca Los Angeles is a beautiful 23 manzana planted with only Pacamara farm situated in the Ahuachapán mountain range in the west of El Salvador. This farm is part of the Los Naranjos group headed by Sigfredo Corado a retired professor of Agronomy from the National School of Agriculture. The farm is part of the Renacer Program (Reborn in Spanish) which is a technical coffee field school and educational program for producers in the area to learn about better farm management practices.

Los Naranjos Café is a family business of three wise former high school friends that turns into as a company a few years ago. For them coffee is the best way to protect the environment and the future of the planet, also they decided to invest in this industry to be an example to tackle the lack of investment in agriculture, they considered this is the only way out to help the most vulnerable people of the rural areas, where it's easy to find extreme poverty, child malnutrition, and emigration problems.

Nowadays, Los Naranjos Café owns: Finca Noruega, Finca Los Angeles, Finca Ethiopia and Finca Los Naranjos, with altitudes from the 1300 masl to the 2046 masl, growing diversity of varieties such as Red and Orange Bourbon, Pacas, Pacamara, Kenya and Geisha, among others, using different processing methods like Naturals, Honeys, Washed, Fermentations and then dried on drying beds.