Guatemala Coffee Manor-Acatenango production area first planted Coffee Merrill Manor La Hermos

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Since the beginning of 1990, Ana Cafe has been actively introducing and classifying the producing areas of Guatemala according to the flavor, climate, soil and height of coffee, among which the latest is the Acatenango producing area attached to the Fuego volcano. In Acatenango producing areas, coffee trees generally grow in mountains above 1800 meters, while benefiting from the influence of Fuego volcanic eruption, the rough and sandy soil is rich in minerals and is blown by the Atlantic sea breeze. Farmers in Acatenango producing areas mostly use traditional sunshine rather than dryers for subsequent drying steps.

Finca Hermosa is currently managed by the third-generation manor owner and quite young Max Fernando Perez Rios. In the Acatenango producing area, the Max family can be said to be one of the first families to carry out coffee planting. Today, Max still owns a lot of cultivated land, while Max integrated four pieces of farmland owned by other brothers and sisters in 2010 and named it Meijing Manor. Max has a variety of dry and wet treatment equipment in Meijing Manor for a long time, and at the same time, it has also set up African scaffolding to improve the quality and stability of subsequent coffee drying. In terms of manor management, Max, as the third-generation manor owner, has his own set of ideas. During the whole coffee harvest and processing season, we can often see him enter the planting land and the processing plant with workers to actually participate in the coffee processing process to ensure the coffee quality. At the same time, in the Beautiful Manor, Max insisted on the all-day drying method adopted by his grandfather to improve the sweetness of the coffee. In addition, due to the influence of micro-climate, the climate of Meijing Manor is quite suitable for using sun-treated coffee. Before the production season, we and Max proposed to make a batch of fine micro-batches of raw beans using the sun method, while using the excellent traditional Typica as the main variety of the sun. After quite many attempts, we officially completed this batch of Typica fine micro-batch coffee in 2015.

Metro Nippon Manor Tibica Solar La Hermosa Typica Natural

■ country: Guatemala

■ producing area: Akatnango

■ altitude: 1400-1600 m

■ treatment: insolation

■ level: SHB

■ variety: Tibica

■ flavor description: dried mango, fragrant flowers, very clean