Sweet, sweet Jose Elmer. This coffee has the perfect balance of fruitiness, sweetness, funk and depth. Great has an everyday drinking coffee!
Elmer Tineo Mendoza owns 6 hectares of coffee farm in the El Diamante area of Jaén. Elmer and his son, Elvis, manage their farms together, and between them have around 10 hectares dedicated to coffee production. His farm has large areas under shade, and with his excellent management of pruning, avoiding herbicides, and his ongoing annual renovations to improve trees affected by diseases, he has cultivated a beautiful farm full of fruit trees and moist soil.
Over the years, with the premiums he has earned from his specialty coffees, he has built a three-story structure with raised drying beds, covered like a greenhouse. For processing, cherries are rested for 24 hours after harvesting in plastic barrels. Any floaters are removed in the tank, and the remaining cherries are then depulped and fermented in plastic bags for 36 hours. After fermentation, the coffee is dried on the beds, which typically takes 11 days.
Elmer loves dogs and has 5-6 running around the farm.
We love the fresh fruit character of this coffee, with notes of figs and green grapes, with some boozy funkiness and a cacao nib finish. Enjoy!
