Tasting Notes: Stone Fruit, Cane Sugar, Jasmine
Region: La Libertad, El Salvador
Growing Elevation: 1,300 - 1,700 MASL
Producer: Anny Ruth Pimentel
Variety: Bourbon, Pacamara
Process: Natural
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Anny Ruth Pimemtel manages her family’s estate in El Boqueron on the Quezaltepec Volcano. She continues to cultivate traditional varieties like Pacamara and Bourbon and relies on shade trees to protect the ecology of the estate. Anny Ruth also takes steps, uncommon in El Salvador, to control the entire post harvest operation all the way through exporting and marketing. At the base of the estate she has a fully equipped mill called Loma La Gloria. Using recycled water, the harvested cherries are floated to extract under ripe, damaged and less dense beans, but because access to water is so limited, all of the coffee is processed either as a honey or a natural and then expertly dried on clay patios and raised beds. Loma la Gloria has a cupping lab where every lot is tasted before milling, which also takes place at Loma La Gloria.
