Introduction to Honduras 19th Auction Lot Colibrí Estate Natural Process Parainema

FrontStreet Coffee - Honduras Auction Lot Finca Los Colibri Natural Parainema Introduction

Honduras borders Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. Coffee production there was initially lukewarm, until 1975, when Brazil suffered severe frost damage. Brazilian output fell sharply, and Honduras seized the opening: production jumped dramatically from 500,000 bags to 1.8 million bags, and the whole crop was snapped up. From that point Honduras' coffee industry truly took off.

Honduras has 280,000 hectares of coffee plantations and currently about 565 million coffee trees, more than 95% of them on small farms. Over 120,000 households are involved in production, and most farms are smaller than 3.5 hectares, with 70% of families farming less than 2 hectares each. These smallholder plots account for 60% of Honduras' total coffee production, while central farms make up about 3% and large farms about 2%.

Best of Honduras Late Harvest #19 - Finca Los Colibri Natural Parainema

FrontStreet Coffee Honduras 19th Auction Lot Finca Los Colibri Natural Parainema

Flavor Description

The dry aroma presents wine-like notes, passion fruit, mango, berries, grape candy, and rum-soaked raisin aromas.

On the palate the wine-like character is just as strong, with passion fruit, mango, blackberry, and raisin, accompanied by berry and floral aromas.

The finish is berry chocolate with a hint of spice, along with rich, bold wine and fruit flavors.

Knowledge Extension: Honduras grows only Arabica varieties, among them Bourbon, Caturra, Typica, Catuai, Pacas, IHCAFE 90, Lempira, and the H1 and H3 hybrids.

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FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

This natural Parainema is a bold, wine-like, fruit-forward coffee, and if that style appeals to you, FrontStreet Coffee's Brazilian single-origins share some of that fruit and richness in a lower-acid, more balanced form. FrontStreet Coffee's Brazil Cerrado Red Bourbon is a classic starting point, a red Bourbon grown in the well-known Cerrado region and processed by the local half-sun method; roasted medium, it gives cream-peanut, toast, caramel, and hazelnut aromas with a rounded, smooth body and a faint bitterness, and it suits pour-over, moka pot, espresso, siphon, or French press equally well.

If you like fruit character with a cleaner edge, FrontStreet Coffee's Brazil Queen's Estate from Mogiana, planted with the rare Yellow Bourbon, brings a sugarcane sweetness that other regions rarely offer alongside fruit and chocolate notes, thanks to the fertile red volcanic soil near South Minas. It works as pour-over, moka pot, or home espresso, and is a gentle contrast to the intensely wine-like Honduran lot above.