Introduction to the Flavor characteristics of Alvado Wula Manor Coffee

El Salvador, known as the "land of volcanoes", the smallest country in Central America, has a reputation beyond life in specialty coffee-growing areas.

Although coffee was grown mainly for domestic consumption, it became a stable and important crop over the next 100 years, especially in the late 19th century, when the country's indigo exports were developed by synthetic dyes and were widely marketable.

By the late 1970s, coffee exports accounted for 50 per cent of GDP, but socio-economic and political unrest plunged the country into civil war for more than a decade, while in the 1980s, various land redistribution projects and land reforms disjointed the coffee industry. led to a decline in the market. Producers abandoned their coffee farms because of a lack of resources to continue farming, and many had been overgrown and unharvested for years before a peace agreement was reached in the 1990s.

El Salvador is mainly divided into five main producing areas, namely Apaneca, Central Belt, Chichontepec, Tecapa & Cacahuatique Mountain Range, which are roughly distributed on alpine slopes or plateau areas covered with volcanic ash above 1200 meters above sea level. Most of them grow coffee by "shade" (planting Shade Grown in the shade of trees). The advantages of this method are that coffee beans can mature uniformly, honey mucus content increases, weight is high, and sweet polyphenols are more likely to be formed. Let the main ingredients of coffee beans be fully formed. For coffee trees with too much sunshine, the edges of the leaves will be rolled up, causing water loss, which is not conducive to photosynthesis, reduce carbon dioxide absorption, and reduce the combination of sugar.

This is the largest producing area in El Salvador, and although there is frequent volcanic activity in the Apaneca-Ilamatepec Mountains, it does not affect the production of high-quality coffee.

There are four volcanoes, mainly Santa Ana (also known as Ilamatepec), while coffee is grown on the slopes on both sides of the mountains. It suffered ash from the Santa Ana volcano in 2005, and the next two years had a great impact on the area, with most coffee farms suspended for two years.

Pacamara is the artificial breeding variety of Pacas and Maragogipe. It was first cultivated by researchers in El Salvador in 1958. Pacamara is an excellent variety under rare artificial breeding, which is better than blue, and perfectly inherits the advantages of the mother plant. Both the excellent taste of Pacas and the large size of Maragogipe are inherited by raw bean granules. The bean body is at least 70% and 80% of that of elephant beans, with more than 17 orders and more than 100% and more than 18 eyes. Average bean length 1.03 cm (general bean about 0.8-0.85 cm) average bean width 0.71 cm (general bean about 0.6-0.65), thickness 0.37 cm, bean shape plump and round. The biggest feature of this variety is that it is sour, lively and tricky, sometimes biscuit, sometimes fruity, thick and greasy.

This variety, which is mated by "Pacas" of Bourbon and "Marago Gippe" of Elephant Bean, is a winning variety in many cup testing competitions at present, which was born in El Salvador.

Mount Wula Manor

Country: El Salvador

Variety: bourbon

Producing area: Santa Ana

Treatment method: honey treatment

Flavor description: citrus, berries, black plum, roasted almonds, cream, chocolate, juicy feeling