Flavor characteristics of Nicaraguan Coffee in Manor San Jose, Nicaragua

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Manor: San Jose

Variety: Kaddura (Caturra)

Altitude: 1250-1400 m

Treatment: 100% washing

Harvest time: 2014

Farm manager: Jesus Antonio Cruz

Area: 66 manzanas

Temperature range: high temperature 27.C, low temperature 15C

Treatment: dry fermentation water washing method, natural solarization in the back stage

Award-winning qualification: 2012 Cup of Excellence (23rd Place)

Osher batch code: 1997

Drying period after washing and fermentation: 19 days on patio to 11.5percent humidity

Osher Cup taste test:

Dry fragrance: sweet vanilla plants, sucrose, nuts, chocolate

Wet aroma: sweet nuts, chocolate, herbaceous aromas

Sip flavor:

Nuts, cashew nuts, sucrose, vanilla plants, cherries, round and smooth touch, sweet nut finish.

San Jose Manor belongs to the same family as Raminita and Lemon Tree, which we introduced before. In 2002, I visited the family manor group for the first time, and they were also the pioneers of Osher's establishment of direct relationship coffee in Nicaragua.

There are quite a variety of varieties in San Jose Manor, including Kaddura, Catey, Java species, three bourbon and so on. The manor also has a variety experimental area, and more than 20 rare varieties have been planted, harvested, cup tested and evaluated. I see low caffeine bourbon here, and I have also seen Java species that breed here and have a good effect in recent years.

San Jose Manor (Finca San Jose) is located in Jinotega province. This area is a major coffee producing area in Nepal, and many coffee gardens can be visited along the main highway. San Jose itself has a very complete wet treatment plant. After arriving on the same day, workers are unloading the first batch of coffee cherries harvested that day to prepare for the first stage of reception and immersion screening:

This manor is located in the beautiful Apanas Lake Highland, the scenery is very beautiful, the first visit to this beautiful manor close to noon, the water vapor, can not clearly shoot the lake view, this year also choose to visit in the afternoon, the lake view is very beautiful!

The steep and fertile volcanic soil along the way gives the San Jose coffee fruit a delicate and sweet taste.

Inversiones Mierisch, a big parent of the manor, the father of Erwin Mierisch, the chief judge of CoE, told me that although the topography of the San Jose manor is steep, it has an excellent micro climate point and the soil is very fertile, so it can produce very small batches of fine goods for the supply of small boutique bakers, but there are only a few batches, which in previous years were actually picked up by shrewd cup testing experts, and the bidding for the Zhuoyue Cup began in 2013. He invited experts to test the cup with the family cup tester, and only a small number of batches with a rating of more than 87 points were included in the bidding batch. It was held for the first time in 2013, and the effect was quite good. He decided to invite the Zhuoyue Cup to hold a small farmer competition again in 2014, three years ago. Inversiones Mierisch believes that although the boutique coffee of Guagua has made rapid progress, its basic skills are more sophisticated and more picky than bean bakers in order to be continuously favored by experts, and it is even necessary to devote more energy to the study of the relationship between flavor and processing. Taking a comprehensive view of the cup test quality of all the samples of small farmers' competitions in the past two years, he did do it!