Smell of caramel sweetness, nut flavors with sugary sweetness balancing taste, finish with soft chocolate notes, black tea-like hint.
Finca Buenos Aires Estates is a fairly large farm of about 215 hectares in the Jinotega growing region. Buenos Aires mill impressed the Sweet Maria’s sourcing team with the clean sweetness of their cultivar-specific process batches. It’s really no surprise the they earn regular placement in the Cup of Excellence competitions.
This one is all Caturra, which is a cultivated mutation of Bourbon that occurred in Brazil in the mid ’30s, but was planted in South and Central America mostly in the 1950s. Buenos Aires is a rather low farm compared to other origins we buy, the farm spanning a range of 1200 – 1500 meters above sea level. The cup is very balanced, clean, moderately bright and very sweet.
The Buenos Aires Caturra has a mild dry fragrance, a compound of raw sugar and vanilla, that when adding hot water shifts to smell of hazelnut-chocolate and dark caramel sweetness in the steam. Tasted quite clean, a sugary sweetness balancing out the bittering roast tones. The sweetness that spans raw cane-sugar to cooked brown sugar, with accent notes of vanilla bean and a chocolate wafer finishing note. It’s a restrained cup, and balanced as we roasted to medium dark level.
- Origin: Nicaragua
- Region: Dipilto, Nueva Segovia
- Farm: Finca Buenos Aires Estates
- Altitude: 1200-1500m
- Cultivar: Caturra
- Grade: SHB EP
- Process: Wet process (Washed)
- Drying: Patio Sun-Dried
- Import: Sweet Maria’s Coffee