El Salvador Santa Elena Manor introduces how does El Salvador's washed bourbon coffee taste?

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El Salvador Santa Elena Manor El Salvador Finca Santa Elena

Among the countries of origin in Central America, El Salvador can be said to be the smallest country in land area. although its output is much less than that of other countries, the Pacific sea breeze and 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 of El Salvador, the Santa Ana volcano, which is located at an altitude of 2381 meters west of the capital, has the advantage of soil quality and planting height. The Santa Ana volcano, which is still in an active state, 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 just because they are older and have less fruit, but 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 process and carry out more detailed honey treatment batch experiments. In St. Elena Manor, Mr. Fernando does not immediately undergo peeling or sun treatment after collecting the red fruits of coffee. Instead, the red fruit is placed in a clean water tank in the treatment plant to improve the sweetness of the coffee, and then the final treatment is carried out.

Although many excellent batches of washed coffee can be found in El Salvador in the past, they are often slightly inferior to other countries in terms of sweetness and mellowness. Santa Elena Manor is one of the few estates in El Salvador with experience in honey treatment and tanning. Fernando's owner has almost reached the point of nitpicking on every detail of honey treatment and tanning. These efforts have enabled St. Elena Manor to win 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.

St. Elena Manor Bourbon washes Finca Santa Elena Bourbon Washed

■ country: El Salvador

■ producing area: Santa Ana Volcano

■ altitude: 1850 m

■ treatment: washing

■ level: SHG

■ variety: bourbon

■ flavor description: citrus, white pomelo, sugar sweet, herbs, melons and fruits, bright acidity, good cleanliness