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Guatemala New Oriental Cadiellas Winey Natural Pacas Flavor Characteristics, Growing Region, and Brewing Parameters

Published: 2026-01-27 Author: FrontStreet Coffee

Last Updated: 2026/01/27, Professional barista communication Please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account cafe_style) Fertile volcanic soil, low humidity, abundant sunshine, and cool nights are the characteristics of this growing region. This valley is surrounded by three volcanoes: Agua, Fuego, and Acatenango. The volcanic ash from eruptions makes the soil in the Antigua growing region rich in minerals

Guatemala Antigua Coffee: Volcanic Origins

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The Antigua region is characterized by rich volcanic soil, low humidity, abundant sunshine, and cool nights. This valley is surrounded by three volcanoes: Agua, Fuego, and Acatenango. Volcanic ash from eruptions enriches the soil in the Antigua region with minerals. Volcanic pumice retains moisture, overcoming the drawback of limited rainfall in the Antigua region, while dense tree shade prevents occasional frost damage.

Coffee Details

Variety: Pacas

Altitude: 1675 meters

Flavor Profile: Passion fruit, strawberry sandwich cookies, blueberry

Guatemala is a country with numerous volcanoes, and coffee produced in volcanic soil yields rich specialty coffees. Guatemala's average altitude is quite high, which means coffee trees grow in environments with significant temperature variations between day and night. These harsh conditions with large diurnal temperature swings cause coffee cherries to mature more slowly on the trees, resulting in hard beans with more complete and complex flavors.

Characteristics: Rich wet aroma, good balance, high sweetness, elegant and ethereal mouthfeel.

This newly arrived coffee comes from the Cardenas Estate, a top-tier estate located in Guatemala's New Oriente region.

Wine-Flavored Natural Process: Pineapple, melon, dried apricot, candied lemon peel, Bordeaux wine, green tea with cinnamon spices, overall rich in sweetness with full-bodied aromas of smoky preserved plums.

Pacas is a natural mutation of Bourbon, similar to Brazil's Caturra and Costa Rica's Villa Sarchi. Like other widely cultivated Bourbon mutations, Pacas is a new variety formed by a single gene mutation, which gives Pacas a crucial characteristic: plants can be planted more densely, ultimately resulting in higher yields per unit area.

Pacas was first discovered in 1949 by the Pacas family in the Santa Ana region of El Salvador. Fernando Alberto Pacas Figueroa noticed some plants with different morphology on their family's Finca San Rafael estate, and he began collecting seeds and conducting selection breeding. Later, he developed about 3/4 hectare of Pacas "pioneer nursery."

By 1956, Francisco de Sola and Fernando's son, Fernando Alberto Pacas Trujillo, began researching the Pacas variety with the help of Professor William Cogwill in Florida. They compared Bourbon from San Ramon with an "unknown" new variety, and this "unknown" variety showed completely different characteristics, with plant morphology distinct from Bourbon, featuring shorter internodes and larger fruiting areas. Finally, they named this variety "Pacas."

Guatemala is a renowned high-quality Arabica coffee producing country in Central America. Coffee from its five volcanic regions and three non-volcanic regions is very distinctive and enjoys an excellent reputation in the international market.

Brewing Method

Pour-over Guatemala wine-flavored natural process. Use 15g of coffee, medium grind (Fuji Royal with ghost tooth grinder #4), V60 dripper, water temperature 88-89°C. First pour 30g of water for a 27-second bloom, then pour to 105g and stop. 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.

New Oriente® Region

Coffee in this region has been grown entirely by small farmers since the 1950s. Today, every household in the mountainous area is a coffee production unit. This region was once Guatemala's most remote and poorest area but now shows vibrant vitality. Rainy and cloudy, New Oriente was an ancient volcanic region where soil evolved from volcanic metamorphic rocks, rich in minerals and nutritionally balanced, unlike other volcanic coffee regions.