Honduras-C.O.E Champion Manor Santa Mata (Finca Santa)

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Honduras has always been among the top few in the boutique coffee market, but Honduras has the advantages of natural environment, excellent soil quality, altitude, and climatic conditions. Nearby Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua also have advanced coffee production. What Honduras lacks is infrastructure and its reputation in the consumer market is not good enough. Hongguo is better known for commercial beans than high-quality beans. No matter how good the quality is, there is no way to sell them at a good price. Many beans from Koban and Santa Barbara are mixed with fish eyes as Guardia beans. Moreover, they are sold at the price of Guardia beans, and for a long time they are not aware of their own potential for the cultivation of high-quality coffee beans. The main problem is that coffee cherries are only slightly processed. It is sold to the processing plant when it is still wet, which often causes coffee cherries to become moldy and damaged before they are officially dried until the moisture content is only 12%. Through drying, such cherries become defective beans with improper drying. Since there is no relative price feedback for good quality, coffee farmers, processors, and exporters have no incentive or incentive to increase costs to develop the potential for coffee growth. as a result, the fate of coffee beans in Honduras has become recognized as a mild mixed bean. rather than beans from a single origin or unique farm, this is a vicious circle.

But now it's different, with the help of USAID and Fintrac and several cooperatives like La Central, they try their best to promote and educate Macro bean farmers to produce good coffee, and then properly handle it to maximize the flavor of the final coffee. In addition, the Fair Trade Association (Fair Trade) funded the construction of processing equipment and increased the expertise of coffee farmers to make the coffee in Honduras gradually come out of the trough. It has become a burgeoning Central American coffee in the past year or two.

Honduras is as diverse as other producing countries, and I can't cover it all in one way. The largest producing area is Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, and there are other producing areas such as Copan Koban, Ocotepeque Ocotepec, Lempira Lompilla, La Paz Baz, and El Paraiso Periso in the south, which are planted at elevations of 1500 to 2000 meters. Mainly grow extremely high sea beans (SHG) generally speaking, the Honduras coffee we have recently tested has low acidity, high sweetness and obvious caramel flavor, which is an excellent choice for espresso formula beans.

In 2011, Direct Coffee was introduced to Finca Santa Marta Santa Mata Manor in Ocotepeque Ocotepec, the winner of the 2006 C.O.E Coffee Competition and the top coffee farm in Honduras.