Finca Monte Verde Yellow Bourbon Natural
Los Cipreses Farm
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- Origin
- El Salvador
- Producer
- Los Cipreses Farm
- Variety
- Yellow Bourbon
- Process type
- Natural/Sun Dried
- Altitude range
- 1100m - 1250m
- Harvest period
- December, 2019 - December, 2019
- Seller's cupping score (SCA)
-
86.0
points
Updated March, 2020
- ID
- SV-68-201912
"Farm: Finca Monte Verde Monte Verde is one of my family's 5 farms and it is managed by my mom Hilda and my father Renee Contreras. My husband German and I, also Hilda, manage another farm named San Rafael alongside marketing and exports for the family. We also have other jobs: I am a doctor and German is a systems engineer. The farm has been in my family since the days of my great-grandfather, a Guatemalan sugar cane producer who came to El Salvador in the late 1800s to marry my great-grandmother, a coffee producer. As my father likes to say, the first generation started a love story with coffee that remains even now with my kids, who will be the 5th generation. My family never stopped evolving in coffee. The second generation, my grandparents, introduced the use of fertilizers to increase production levels. They didn't have to worry about leaf rust or anthracnosis back then, so didn't have to use pesticides. My grandparents grew the farm's volumes and managed to send all their 6 kids to university. The third generation, my parents, already combined other careers with coffee production. My dad worked for the government for many years but never left the farm aside. His brothers and sisters are also all involved in coffee. They learned from the previous generation but also introduced new varieties to the farms and built their own processing facility. My father later built a new mill for our farms focusing on micro-lots. My brother, two sisters and I are the fourth generation in coffee. We all have other jobs and found our own way to continue working at the farms. We take care of the commercial side and have been exporting directly for 5 years now. We also invest in quality control and new processing methods. We have acquired raised beds to dry our naturals and tanks for anaerobic fermentation. As a company, we invest in social projects and education at El Paste school. We organize free medical care days to provide appointments to the workers and supply them monthly bags with basic food items. We do some fun stuff too. We have taken the workers on family trips to the Metalío beach in Sonsonate and also to the Metapan lake!"
Producers: Hilda Morena Valdez de Contreras and Rene Contreras
Farm size: 35 hectares
Location: Monte Verde town (next to El Chingo volcano), Santa Ana department, El Salvador, Apaneca-Illamatepec Mountain Range
Altitude: 1100 - 1250 m
Soil: Alluvial clay loam
Harvest season: November to February
Average yearly rainfall: 1400 - 1600 ml
Average temperatures: 15C - 30C
Average age of trees: 3 - 30 years old
Cultivated varieties: Red and Yellow Bourbon, Pacas, Anacafé-14
