Flavour description: This coffee has an aroma of dried papaya. It is a sweet and fruity cup profile with flavour notes of jasmine, banana, and red grape. The weight is light to medium with a smooth mouthfeel. A sweet finish with an aftertaste of banana bread.
Colour to describe flavour: Mild turquoise
Category: Adventurous Producer: Gloria Rodrigues & Luis Rodrigues
Farm: Finca Nejapa
Lot: Roma
Varietal: Elefante
Process: Natural
Region: Ahuachapán, Santa Ana
Harvested: March to April 2023
Altitude: 1550 masl
Price transparency: The FOB price we paid for this coffee was $8,30 /lb
Finca Nejapa Natural Elefante is produced by Gloria and Luis Rodrigues, who discovered this natural mutation of the Bourbon varietal on their family farm. The Elefante coffee cherry is bigger than the other varietals, hence the name, Elefante. It also produces three times more mucilage compared to a Bourbon. The fruit looks much like a Pacamara and the seed (bean) like a Bourbon. In flavour, it is more bright, floral, and delicate. We have a small lot of Elefante, and this will be a bright and clean coffee, yet round and smooth from the El Salvadorian terroir.
The Finca Nejapa farm is on the slopes of the Laguna de Las Ninfas (Waterlilies Lagoon) with a spectacular sight over the Apaneca-Ilamatepec mountain range. Nejapa farms 7 hectares reforested with cedar trees, approximately 10 years old. The farm also has a diversity of shade trees, which helps maintain and preserve both the soil conditions and a wide variety of birds and small mammals that live in that region.
The success of Finca Nejapa is the result of a strong family unit. The farm was initially inherited by Gloria’s father, José María Rodrígues Herrera in the 50’s, at that time the property was devoted to dairy cows, and it was José Maria who started growing coffee of the Bourbon variety. Little by little, he noticed coffee was extremely productive in that area, and that is where the story begins.
Today Gloria runs the farm with her son-in-law Luis. Their hard work and skills have really paid off in the quality of their product. By working together, they maintain and potentially improve the working conditions as well as the cup profile. Every year, Gloria establishes nurseries with selected seeds to keep her farm in good shape, balance production, and secure future crops.
To read more about the Rodrigues family and Finca Nejapa click here.
Innehåller kaffe, förvaras mörkt och svalt
