Nicaragua Finca San Salvador

Finca San Salvador is another farm operated by producer Luis Emilio Valladarez (also operates Finca Buenos Aires another coffee we purchased this year). Finca San Salvador came under his direction and ownership about 4 years ago now, thriving from his expertise and leadership and actually placed top 30 a couple years back at the Nicaraguan Cup of Excellence competition. It is located in the Dipilto area, in an area with a pleasant microclimate, with ample sun for drying coffee. They mechanically wash the coffee using a Penagos depulper that removes the coffee cherry and mucilage layer in one pass, not relying on fermentation to break down the sticky fruit. The coffee is then soaked in tanks overnight with fresh water to further clean the seed before washing in long cement channels where any remaining fruit is removed by agitating the coffee with long wooden paddles as it moves to the end. The coffee is transported from the beneficio to Buenos Aires dry mill in Ocotal where it is dried and prepared for export.