El Salvador San Emilio|Pulped Natural Bourbon

El Salvador San Emilio Pulped Natural

• Country: El Salvador
• Estate: San Emilio
• Region: Central El Salvador
• Altitude: 1600 meters
• Processing Method: Pulped Natural
• Variety: Bourbon

CAFECO was founded in 1972, though the founder's involvement in El Salvador's coffee industry reaches back to the 1880s.

CAFECO's main processing facility, ATAPASCO, is one of El Salvador's large-scale plants that balances ecological conservation with advanced technology. It currently operates seven estates with a total cultivation area exceeding 1700 hectares, and CAFECO exports nearly 25000 bags of coffee annually. Among them, San Emilio is CAFECO's most extensive plantation, located in the Cordillera del Balsamo mountain range about 30 minutes from San Salvador. The estate mainly grows Bourbon variety coffee, known for its smooth, mellow and sweet flavor. San Emilio has numerous natural springs and its own independent processing facility. It was CAFECO's first estate to establish direct trade relationships with overseas roasters, and it is also trademarked in the United States.

This batch was processed using the pulped natural method. After harvest, the cherries are sent to processing tanks for cleaning and sorting to remove defective beans, then machine-processed to strip the outer fruit skin while retaining the mucilage, which is then sun-dried on elevated racks. This produces fermentation characteristics similar to honey processing and lets the fruit continue to absorb its own starches during drying, which enhances the beans' sweetness.

Flavor Notes: Caramel sweetness, roasted hazelnut, orange peel aroma, gentle spices, soft fruit acidity, and a syrup-like sweetness.

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