Finca Santa Elena, El Salvador, California

Won a total of seven C.O.E competitions and two Central American competitions organized by the Rainforest Conservation Union were among the top 10.

El Salvador can be said to be the smallest country in Central America, although its output is much less than that of other countries, but the Pacific sea breeze and multi-volcanic environment provide El Salvador coffee farmers with unique planting advantages and diversified flavor performances. at present, the winning variety Pacamara in many cup test competitions was born in El Salvador. Among the producing areas, the one with the advantage of soil quality and planting height is the Santa Ana volcano, which is 2381 meters above sea level west of the capital. Santa Ana, which is still active, erupted in 2005.

Although it caused heavy economic losses and some casualties to local coffee farmers in that year, the volcanic ash with organic matter later provided a very rich source of nutrients for the local soil, and Santa Ana is still recognized as one of the best producing areas in El Salvador.

Saint Elena Manor is one of the few estates at the highest altitude in the Santa Ana producing area, which is currently run by Mr. Lima and Mr. Don Fernando Lima and is currently the third generation landowner. Mr. Fernando has more than 30 years of coffee planting experience since he was young. At present, the main varieties planted in the manor are bourbon and Pacamara. Mr. Fernando adheres to the principle of maintaining environmental diversity in the concept of manor planting. When you first step into the manor, you can feel that it is different from other Salvadoran manors. The manor maintains a very primitive forest environment. At the same time, Mr. Fernando also retained a high proportion of old bourbon coffee trees, some of which are even more than 15 years old. for landowners, these coffee trees are the fruit of painstaking maintenance. Coffee trees will not be cut down because of older trees and less fruit, and these old bourbon trees can provide better cup flavor although they have less fruit.

Traditionally, Salvadoran coffee farmers do not deal with the exposure of coffee fruits so carefully and relatively poorly in terms of equipment, but Fernando constantly updates a lot of equipment in the processing plant, making Santa Elena Manor one of the few estates in El Salvador to use African scaffolding for the sun drying of coffee fruits. Although the use of African scaffolding equipment tends to stretch longer in the sun, it can improve the cleanliness and sweetness of coffee.

At the same time, Mr. Fernando Fernando also began to set up his own water washing treatment station 15 years ago, with its own water washing treatment station, so that the landowner can control the subsequent coffee treatment and carry out more detailed honey treatment batch experiments. In St. Elena Manor, Mr. Fernando does not immediately undergo peeling or sun treatment after picking the coffee red fruit. Instead, the red fruit is first placed in a clean tank in the treatment plant to improve the sweetness of the coffee, and finally the follow-up treatment is carried out. The owner is very particular about the details of the handling of raw coffee beans, and has won a total of seven C.O.E competitions since 2003, and two of the top 10 Central American competitions organized by the Rainforest Conservation Union.

Dry aroma: apricot, citrus, cherry, honey, hazelnut

Wet fragrance: apricot, citrus, cherry, honey, hazelnut

Sipping: wine, berries, tropical fruits, citrus, guava, cleanliness and fullness.

36 aromas of coffee:

El Salvador _ Santa Elena Bourbon _ sun El Salvador Finca Santa Elena Bourbon Pulped Natural

El Salvador _ Santa Elena bourbon _ honey treatment

Coffee bean producing area Santa Ana

The Manor Department was established in 1930.

The size of the manor is about 80 hectares

The planting area is about 21 hectares.

The annual rainfall is about 3500 mm

The average annual temperature is 14 ℃

Plant 1850 meters above sea level

Coffee variety Pacamara

Grading standard SHB

Soil type volcanic soil

Coffee treatment and solarization

Manual harvesting by harvest method

Harvest time 2017