China Coffee net SL28 species of Guava Plain Manor in Guatemala New Oriental producing area

Guatemala is one of the most important coffee producing countries in Central America, with long mountains and different regional climates, thus creating eight major coffee producing areas in Guatemala, all located on the highland topography of the subtropical climate, with abundant and stable rainfall and fertile volcanic ash soil is an excellent environment for coffee trees to grow. Plan del Guayabo is located next to the Volc á n de Sucht á n volcano, which means "guava plain" in Spanish. It is named because of the large number of guava trees planted locally. The estate is owned by Benjamin Donado (Mr. Benjam í n Donado). The Donado family has been engaged in coffee production since 1990 and has been producing coffee for more than 20 years. Before that, local farmers were so strange to coffee production that it was hard to imagine planting coffee trees in such a steep and high altitude environment, but now it has been proved that Benjamin made the right choice to produce high quality coffee beans with different varieties and different processing methods. In the early New Oriente region of Guatemala, it was common for berry buyers to regularly buy coffee cherries from farmers and then resell them to larger middlemen, where they were resold to the town of Esquipulas, where they were mixed with other batches to form a large batch of SHB that could not be traced back, and finally sold around the world under the name New Oriental (New Oriente). In view of this, more and more international raw bean traders are trying to change this situation, working with local partners to produce coffee raw beans with excellent flavor and traceable origin, breaking the traditional vicious circle. Guava Plain Manor is one of the important members.

The newly purchased coffee beans come from the guava Plain Manor in the New Oriental region of Guatemala, which is located in the easternmost part of Guatemala, unlike Antigua, which is less than an hour's drive from the capital. New Oriental has to drive straight to the easternmost border with Honduras. The SL28 sun and washing batches introduced this time are customized micro-batches in cooperation with the manor owner. Cooperative micro-batches have become an important driving force for the promotion of top coffee, especially innovative micro-batches, through prior discussion with agricultural frequency and the commitment to guarantee the purchase price, providing farmers with incentives for designated batches of production has achieved our goal of flavor, quality and innovation.

Last year, a small amount of washed SL28 was produced in the guava plain, but this year, in cooperation with traders, new batches of sun-dried wine with unique flavor have been added. When cooperating with traders in this series, we have also communicated on the spot about the harvest standards and sun treatment methods (such as turning and drying days). From the results, it can be said to be a very happy harvest. In particular, SL28 is still a rare variety in Central America.

Wine sun flavor: pineapple, cantaloupe, dried apricot, sugared lemon peel, Bordeaux wine, green tea and cinnamon spices, full of sweetness and smoked plum aromas.

The SL28 variety is extremely rare in Central America. It originated from Lake Tanganyika in East Africa. It was discovered in 1931. It has broad and reddish leaves, can adapt to high altitude environment, and has excellent drought and disease resistance. It also has higher yield than traditional tree species and is unique in flavor. In 1935, the Scott Coffee Laboratory Scottish Laboratory named the variety SL,28 after the initial letter of the laboratory, which was the serial number of screening, and then it was planted in Kenya. At present, there are only a few manors with both strength and experience in Central American countries.

A bourbon line screened and cultivated by French and British missionaries and researchers in Kenya at the beginning of the 20th century. Over the past hundred years, it has adapted to the high concentration of phosphate soil in Kenya, giving birth to the special sour and fragrant spirit of Kenyan beans, which is different from bourbon beans in Central and South America. This Kenyan native species was created by Scott Laboratories in 1930, known as SL for short. Agronomists wanted to find a kind of bourbon with high yield and resistance to diseases and insect pests, and obtained SL28 through experiments. SL28 is a genetic variant with a mixed pedigree of French missionaries, mochas and Yementibica. The original goal of breeding SL28 was to mass-produce coffee beans with high quality and resistance to diseases and insect pests. Although the output of SL28 was not as large as expected, the copper leaf color and broad bean-shaped beans have great sweetness, balance and complex flavor, as well as remarkable citrus and black plum characteristics.

Guatemala Plan del Guayabo Estate SL28

Country: Guatemala

Producing area: new Oriental

Manor: guava Plain Manor

Producer: Mr. Benjamin Donado

Treatment method: wine flavor and sun treatment

Variety: SL 28

Altitude: 1675 m

Flavor: pineapple, dried apricot, red wine