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How to Describe the Flavor of Antigua Flora Coffee - The Story of Guatemala Antigua and Flora Coffee Prices

Published: 2026-01-28 Author: FrontStreet Coffee

Last Updated: 2026/01/28, Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). In Antigua, Guatemala, encounter the spring of Flora. Elegant and pure white coffee flowers bloom in Antigua, Guatemala, the most famous of the seven major coffee-producing regions. The unique volcanic fertile soil provides abundant nutrients for coffee trees, while volcanic pumice retains moisture.

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Guatemala Antigua coffee beans - La Flor del Cafe

Encountering the Spring of the Coffee Flower in Guatemala Antigua

The elegant and pure white coffee flowers bloom in Guatemala-Antigua, the most famous among the seven major producing regions. The unique volcanic fertile soil provides abundant nutrients for coffee trees. The moisture-retaining properties of volcanic pumice supply the necessary water for growth, combined with high-altitude shade cultivation, ultimately nurturing the delicate beauty of the Coffee Flower (La Flor Del Cafe). The coffee flower locks eternal spring within the coffee beans, allowing your first sip to be filled with fragrant floral aromas.

Medium Roast Reveals Floral and Fruity Aromas with Rich Tea-like Aftertaste and Sweet Return

The beauty of Antigua's Coffee Flower makes you want to write a poem in praise. With clean and brightness as the main theme, it releases all rich floral aromas, interweaving micro-acidity and micro-sweetness to create rich flavors, much like the top, middle, and base notes of perfume. The appropriately timed caramelized roast reveals the coffee flower's magnificence, making people迷恋 the fragrance of fruits and fresh grass. The long, lingering aftertaste is a warm green tea aroma. The sweetness that has already reached the heart rises back to the throat, creating a zen-like quality that is both tea-like and not tea-like, purifying the entire spirit.

La Flor del Cafe

The literal meaning is "Coffee Flower," coming from the high-altitude zone in the center of Antigua's volcanic region. What's special is that La Flor del Cafe is provided with the highest standards of cultivation and processing technology in the industry by the famous Costa Rican "La Minita" estate. They directly dispatch personnel to Guatemala to participate in quality control and entrust the Pastores mill, the largest scale and top-equipped processing plant in the Antigua region, to perform high-standard post-harvest processing. Therefore, it's no surprise that this coffee bean shows extraordinary excellence!

During grinding, it releases the characteristic floral aroma of high-altitude excellent coffee and full-bodied fruit sweetness. When sipped, it reveals the fresh and sweet taste of citrus and mulberry fruit tea, surpassing even the Huehuetenango region beans famous for their fruity aromas! Under light roast, it shows bright, clean fruit acidity, Yirgacheffe-like floral aromas and red wine aftertaste, plus very light and faint smoky notes. High complexity, with body leaning medium-thin. The flavors differ greatly from typical Antigua volcanic region coffees. In the specialty coffee market, it's difficult to find similar premium Antigua coffee beans with such intense floral aromas yet refreshing, non-sticky mouthfeel. The technical support provided by La Minita estate is indispensable!

Coffee Flower belongs to the La Minita Group's brand beans, with the Spanish name La Flor del Cafe, produced by the renowned Las Pastores processing plant in Antigua.

Starting this year (2007), La Minita labels have been stitched onto the sack seams to declare "sovereignty" and indicate it as one of the group's beans. At least, the processing and quality control of the green beans are absolutely top-tier. The rest can only depend on prayers for favorable microclimate conditions that year.

Antigua Coffee Producing Region

Among Guatemala's 7 major producing regions, Antigua is the most renowned, mainly because coffee cultivation altitudes are located in volcanic highland areas. Unlike other regions that are affected by sea breezes or high humidity air from large lake areas, Antigua's unique microgeography creates its distinctive flavors:

(1) Versatile volcanic fertile soil: Within Antigua's territory, there are three major volcanoes - Acatenango (which has now become Guatemala's 8th independent producing region), Fuego and Agua Volcanoes. Among them, Fuego is an active volcano. Its continuous activity not only provides fertile volcanic soil to the Antigua coffee region but also unique volcanic pumice, which is the cooled product of volcanic lava eruption. With its porous and insulating properties, it's very suitable for maintaining moisture in the soil. Since Antigua is the region with the least rainfall among the 7 major producing regions, coffee growth requires sufficient water. The moisture-retaining capacity of volcanic pumice here恰好 compensates for the insufficient rainfall, while the growing coffee fruits develop unique regional flavors.

(2) High-density shade trees: Besides providing shade, they also prevent frost damage and form unique microclimates. The Antigua region occasionally experiences frost damage from December to February due to cold nights. At this time, high-density shade trees play their role, preventing coffee trees from frosting. Meanwhile, the groundwater level in Antigua is not deep, making it easy for these shade trees to absorb water, forming a microclimate suitable for plant growth with surrounding coffee trees.

(3) Dramatic day-night temperature differences: Very helpful for the development of sweetness in coffee cherries and the formation of unique flavors.

(4) High altitude: Coffee trees grown at high altitudes produce hard, dense beans with more elevated coffee aromas and more prominent flavors.

Coffee Flower is produced by the Las Pastores processing plant, with the brand belonging to the La Minita Group. Under the green bean control and cupping gatekeeping by quality management personnel, a strict set of procedures has been established from purchasing cherry fruits to washing, post-stage sun-drying and drying. Of course, they also operate according to La Minita's famous strict green bean selection procedures! Under La Minita's quality requirements and monitoring, it has finally enjoyed a certain reputation.

Antigua Coffee Bean Brand Recommendations

The Guatemala Antigua coffee beans - Coffee Flower roasted by FrontStreet Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) have full guarantees in both brand and quality. More importantly, the price-performance ratio is extremely high. A half-pound (227g) bag costs only about 85 yuan. Calculated at 15g per cup of single-origin coffee, one bag can make 15 cups of coffee, with each cup costing only 5-6 yuan. Compared to the tens of yuan per cup sold in coffee shops, this represents an extremely high price-performance ratio.

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