El Zapote | Guatemala
Variety: Caturra
Processing: washed
Q Score: 86
Processing: washed
Q Score: 86
64,00 zł
Amazing sweetness of high-quality chocolate from a fancy store, topped with a good dose of jammy fruitiness, all balanced and clean as lightning. 100% variety and terroir in a cup, which is not so popular at all today….
| Weight | N/A |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Julio Melendez |
| Farm | El Zapote |
| Processing | washed |
| Variety | Caturra |
| Q score | 86 |
| Country | Guatemala |
| Type | Arabica |
Heretical opinions
Peter: “This coffee gets 86 points on the sheet, but in my heart it will also get 90. Because it is that today it is sometimes no one to make these clean, full washed, and coffee pickles have taken the throne! Thanks to Olk Baron! Oh so to speak. And here we have the most beautiful example of professionalism while emphasizing the taste of the coffee itself. Julio is the man.”
Carolina: “I have a total affection for all coffees from El Zapote, because it’s a beautiful farm, a wonderful man, and, needless to say, he knows his job.”
More geeky stuff
crop location: 1,500 meters above sea level.
collection: january-february 2022
importer: 88 Graines
After harvesting, the coffee is put into depulping and then fermented for 24 hours in a clean tank. There is a release of the lock, the grains are washed, a preliminary qualitative selection is made. Finally, drying on three-tier African beds.
El Zapote is one of those farms that evoked extremely positive emotions that are hard to describe. Beautifully situated at the base of two volcanoes, with wilderness at the bottom, add to that a rushing, winding river and a jungle atmosphere. Julio is a great guy, with a wealth of knowledge about coffee and a sleeve full of anecdotes. Open-minded, willing to experiment and unusual practices – we will show the results of his work more than once!
Coffee is as dense as the Amazon forest, so it needs brutal treatment right from the beginning of the roast. That’s how we like it, thick or not at all! So we pressurize it with a high burner from the first seconds and so on until the end. With many washed is like with a good lager – it requires a lot of precision, control, and the window of success is really narrow. A firing from the longer ones, according to our book of standards. But that’s how we like it best with coffees from Julio!
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