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When we spoke to our friends from Semilla about finding a new everyday coffee that we could buy seasonally like our Primavera Sisterhood they were very excited to tell us about this project that they are working with in Honduras - the Campanario group Sueños de Semilla.
This coffee has exceeded our expectations upon cupping, and we are so happy about having this as our new daily driver at von&vonnie. This particular lot is from a small hamlet composed of three producers; Emiliana Montoya, Margarito Hernandez and Reina Morales.
Over the past 15 years it has become increasingly difficult for producers in Honduras to earn enough income to cover input costs and labour costs to continue production as a means of generating a living income. With growers suggesting that It is no longer possible to generate profit operating under traditional models – with many growers facing that the only logical solution is to sell their arable coffee land and migrate to the cities.
The areas where this coffee is growing is filled with fantastic coffee and immense production potential, despite this, agronomists in Honduras state that up to 25% of regional production was lost due to Leaf Rust in 2019.
The region is filled by producers forced to sell the coffee as undifferentiated product at a very low price which led to little motivation for growers in producing high quality crops. Projects such as this by Semilla which facilitates higher price guarantees for producers and increasingly so with higher quality with a brighter future.
Consciously purchasing coffees such as these hamlet lots from collective agents striving to increase surplus from production creates accruable difference at origin.
This coffee presents as a beautiful balanced cup with great sweetness, chocolatey texture with pleasant fruity acidity. This coffee will pair perfectly with milk or on its own.
About the Processing:
Cherries are harvested at peak ripeness and floated to remove damaged or underripe seeds, and then de-pulped on the same day. The de-pulped coffee is dry fermented for 30 hours in concrete tanks or plastic barrels, under shade. Coffee is then washed in clean water and dried on raised beds or inside solar dryers for an average of 25 days.
Roast Level: Agtron: 93 Light
About the coffee:
Region: Campanario, Intubuca.
Farm: Three farms from Emiliana Montoya at Los Alcipreces along with the farms of Margarito Hernandez, and Reina Morales
Altitude: c. 1,700MASL
Importer: Semilla
Harvest: Early 2025
