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Finca Concepcion Pixcaya

Brief introduction

In June 2017, Guatemala small farmers won the competition, the ideal manor bourbon species.

Eight years ago, I was attracted by the taste of the ideal manor like delicate syrup! Over the years, her stable and superb quality has amazed many people. in particular, the mysterious and heroic style of the manor owner has forced me to look forward to meeting her. Although the cup has tested her beans for many years, it is a pity that several contacts have been unable to be interviewed because of the absence of the host. I finally decided to take a deep trip to the manor in 2013.

The ideal Manor Finca Concepcion, whose full name is Concepcion Pixcaya, is located in San Juan. Shakatipex, not far from the capital; the name of the manor comes from the word Virgin of Conception, the Catholic Notre Dame, and the Pixcay á River that flows through the manor to bring abundant water (formed by the merger of Concepcion and Pixcay á), but after an in-depth understanding of the manor management philosophy, we translate the meaning of the manor name to everyone with practical and pragmatic ideas, which is the origin of the translation of the name "ideal Manor".

In 2013, because of leaf rust disease, many manors gave up their persistence, gave in to reality, or went to the doctor in a panic, uprooting good varieties and replacing them with varieties with good disease resistance but poor quality. large consortia took the opportunity to persuade farmers to change their varieties, such as persuading them to give up bourbon to welcome Catimor, and so on. The spread of panic has arrived.

Ideal manor, but there are different versions of the story.

The ideal Manor was founded in 1926 by Carlos Miron Armas and Maria Munoz de Miron. Before that, it was a Catholic church property and had a very beautiful Spanish building, but it was destroyed by the earthquake in 1976. When I visited the ideal Manor this year, the third generation of operators took me to visit the main building, which still retains the Spanish architectural style of that year; at present, the manor is jointly run by Manuel Zaghi Miron and Maria Cristina Miron Cordon de Zaghi. In addition to insisting on planting 100% bourbon, the industry also grows a large number of Cipres forests and pines, and has logging and simple processing plants to increase family income.

During the visit, Maria told people to prepare coffee and talked to me for a long time in the living room, including the cause of the family growing coffee, her travel trail and why she insisted on growing only Bourbon.

Like coffee, people get sick and have the problem of old age and infirmity, just like me, if I don't go to Southeast Asia this year, I don't know when to do it next time, she said. Fate, take good care of the body, there is physical strength to travel. She knew that the bourbon species had low resistance to leaf rust, but the young bourbon species were not, and could easily resist the disease and blossom and bear fruit without losing the leaves too much.

After understanding the fragile and young bourbon characteristics of the bourbon species, I spent hours visiting the manor and found that almost all of the old bourbon was bare. The workers uprooted the diseased trees and abandoned them, and the dead wood and roots piled up were like coffee graveyards. The scene, even if witnessed many times, still had a strong emotion, who knows, across the other area of the ridge, green, the whole row of coffee forests, very healthy! This is the first time I have encountered such a strong contrast in the same manor. I have come to understand Maria's determination and her deep understanding of bourbon species. Although the ideal manor has also suffered from leaf rust, it has fought early, and as its name, it can still adhere to its ideals, not compromise, and still cultivate bourbon species. Please see the following dead areas compared with 2-3-year-old bourbon species:

Manuel Zaghi is actually responsible for the farming of the manor, selecting only 100% ripe red coffee fruits, selecting them into the trough for peeling and fermentation, paying close attention to the quality of fermentation, washing after completion, spreading and drying with high scaffolding in the treatment field, and selecting better quality, a series of close quality control, so that the ideal manor has become the winning manor of the CoE competition for two consecutive years and ranked in the top 10. In addition to the treatment quality, 100% do not use chemical herbicides to 100%. Fertilizing is used as a source of coffee nutrition, while the waste water from fermentation and cleaning is recovered and treated in an exclusive storage tank to ensure environmental safety and no pollution. The ideal manor is not only a CoE award-winning manor, but also won the national afforestation environment award for its concrete implementation of environmental protection and harmless planting of trees for many years.

The wooden receiving station, double-track peeling machine and African scaffolding in the following picture are very busy during the harvest period and can still cope with the production capacity of the manor day by day. After the harvest period is over and the equipment is cleaned and arranged, this is the situation as follows:

Manor information

Country: Guatemala

Producing area: San Juan. Shaka Tipex (San Juan Sacatep é quez)

Manor name: ideal Manor, Concepcion Pixcaya

Manor area: 180 hectares

Altitude: 1875 m

Variety: bourbon, Bourbon

Harvest time: March 2016

Treatment: traditional water washing and fermentation

Cup test taste

Dry fragrance: spices, maple syrup, chocolate, berries

Wet fragrance: vanilla, milk, red apple

Flavor: red currant, lime juice, vanilla, chocolate, hazelnut chocolate