The Story and Legend of Guatemala's Finca El Injerto Pacamara Pandora Fatima

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About the Pacamara Variety

Pacamara gained worldwide fame through the Cup of Excellence (COE) in 2004, frequently winning championships within 2-3 years. The Pacamara produced by Guatemala's El Injerto estate set a record price of $80.2 per pound of green beans in 2008.

The origin of the variety and its name: It is a derived variety from the elephant bean Maragogype and Pacas, taking the first 4 letters of Maragogype and Pacas to form Pacamara. It is an excellent coffee variety developed in El Salvador. The coffee beans are very large, similar to elephant beans, approximately 21-22 screen size. It has been an outstanding coffee variety in Central and South America in recent years, and every country or farm hopes to find suitable areas for cultivating this variety to produce excellent coffee, like Panama's Geisha. The characteristics of Pacamara coffee include bright fruit acidity and very pure, delicate sweetness.

Although the Pacamara variety's appearance is still quite similar to its cousin—the elephant bean variety. Since 2006, COE has cupped Pacamara from 30 estates, some with truly superstar flavors, such as Honduras' 2006 champion Santa Martha, El Salvador's 2007 third-place Cerro Negro (Black Mountain Estate), Guatemala's regular COE champion El Injerto, and El Salvador's 2008 runner-up Pacamara estate; all of these are excellent representatives of Pacamara, but they are all award-winning batches, making them very expensive.

Pour-over Injerto

15g of coffee, medium grind (Fuji ghost tooth grinder setting 4), V60 dripper, water temperature 88-89°C. First infusion with 30g of water for 27 seconds pre-infusion, then pour to 105g and pause. Wait until the water level drops to half, then continue pouring slowly until reaching 225g. Avoid the tail section. Water-to-coffee ratio 1:15, extraction time 2:00.

Guatemala Pacamara - Auction Batch Pandora Fatima-Pacamara PI07

The World's Coffee Estate - El Injerto

There are over ten thousand coffee estates worldwide, including those producing mass-market coffee beans, high-quality coffee bean estates, and estates growing rare coffee varieties. Today, I'd like to introduce you to Guatemala's renowned top-tier coffee estate, El Injerto.

Estate Introduction

El Injerto Estate is located in the famous Huehuetenango highlands of Guatemala. The Aguirre family has been growing coffee there since 1900. The estate name "Injerto" comes from a local fruit name. El Injerto Estate places special emphasis on ecological protection and organic cultivation techniques, implementing strict quality control to ensure the quality of green coffee beans. Through the Aguirre family's efforts, El Injerto Estate has also earned Rainforest Alliance certification and has been a frequent winner in many international coffee competitions since 2002.

El Injerto Estate (also translated as Grafting Estate) is among the top estates in Guatemala. If it claims to be second, probably no one would dare to claim first! It has won many world-class competition awards, leading to today's achievements. Last year, the estate owner further elevated their estate's status, similar to Panama's famous La Esmeralda estate. El Injerto Estate holds global auction events, and of course, the auction beans they release are quite remarkable. Notably, the 2012 first batch "Mocha variety" set a world record, sold at the astronomical price of "$500.5/pound USD," becoming a truly star estate!

For this auction, El Injerto Estate specially launched the "BEST El Injerto" series, selecting small batches of exceptional quality and coffee varieties from within the estate. Experienced farmers carefully select ripe coffee cherries, and then cuppers eliminate batches that don't meet quality standards. Under such strict selection criteria, Pacamara varieties from El Injerto Estate account for only about 8% of total production.

Pacamara offers full, rich, and complex flavors. Few coffee varieties possess both fruit acidity while maintaining distinct sweetness, with diverse notes of drupes, vanilla plants, tropical fruits, chocolate, and spice sweetness.

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Shelf Life: 90 days
Net Weight: 100g
Packaging: Bulk
Organic Food: No
Coffee Bean State: Roasted coffee beans
Contains Sugar: Sugar-free
Origin: Guatemala
Roast Level: Medium roast

Guatemala La Libertad, Huehuetenango El Injerto Pandora de Fatima

Country: Guatemala

Grade: SHB

Estate: El Injerto Estate

Roast Level: Medium roast

Processing Method: Washed

Variety: Pacamara

Batch: Auction batch Pandora Fatima EI07

Flavor: Chestnut, plum, chocolate

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