Guatemala El Injerto Estate Pacamara Auction Lot Pandora Fatima Freshly Roasted 100g

Product Information:
Factory Name: Coffee Workshop
Factory Address: No. 10 Bao'an Qianjie Street, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou
Factory Contact: 020-38364473
Shelf Life: 90 days
Net Weight: 100g
Packaging: Bulk
Organic: No
Bean State: Roasted Coffee Beans
Sugar Content: Sugar-free
Origin: Guatemala
Roast Level: Medium Roast

Guatemala La Libertad, Huehuetenango El Injerto Pandora de Fatima

Coffee Details:
Country: Guatemala
Grade: SHB
Estate: El Injerto Estate
Roast Level: Medium Roast
Processing Method: Washed
Variety: Pacamara
Batch: Competition Batch Pandora de Fatima EI07
Flavor Notes: Chestnut, Plum, Chocolate

Guatemala Pacamara - Competition Batch Pandora de Fatima - Pacamara PI07

El Injerto: A Coffee Estate of World Renown

There are more than ten thousand coffee estates around the globe, spanning everything from farms that turn out commercial beans to estates producing high-quality specialty coffee and others cultivating rare varieties. Today we turn the spotlight on one of Guatemala's most prestigious operations: El Injerto Estate.

A Look at the Estate

El Injerto Estate sits on Guatemala's celebrated Huehuetenango plateau, where the Aguirre family has grown coffee since 1900. The estate takes its name from a local fruit. El Injerto places particular emphasis on ecological protection and organic growing methods, applying strict quality control to safeguard the quality of its green coffee. Thanks to the Aguirre family's efforts, the estate has earned Rainforest Alliance certification and has been a consistent prize-winner in international coffee competitions since 2002.

El Injerto Estate — sometimes translated as "Graft Estate" — ranks among Guatemala's very best. If it claimed second place, few would dare claim first. A long list of world-class competition awards has carried it to its present standing. Last year the owner lifted the estate's profile even further: much like Panama's famous La Esmeralda Estate, El Injerto runs a global bidding competition of its own, and the competition lots it releases are exceptional. The first batch of its "Mocha Variety" in 2012 set a world record, reaching an astronomical $500.5 per pound and sealing its reputation as a true star estate.

For this competition, El Injerto created the specially curated "BEST El Injerto" series, selecting small lots of outstanding quality and interesting varieties from across the estate. Experienced farmers hand-pick ripe cherries, which are then cupped to weed out any batch that fails to meet the standard. Under screening this strict, the Pacamara variety accounts for only about 8% of El Injerto's total production.

About the Pacamara Variety

Pacamara first won worldwide attention through the Cup of Excellence (COE) in 2004, and it went on to take championships repeatedly within just two or three years. Green beans of the Pacamara grown at Guatemala's El Injerto Estate reached an astonishing $80.2 per pound in 2008.

The variety takes its name from a crossing of Maragogype (Elephant Bean) and Pacas: "Pacamara" combines the first four letters of Maragogype with those of Pacas. It is an outstanding variety developed in El Salvador. Its beans are very large — much like Elephant Beans, roughly 21–22 screen size — and it has stood out across Central and South America in recent years. Every country and farm hopes to find the right region in which to grow it and produce exceptional coffee, much as they do with Panama's Geisha. Pacamara's hallmarks are a bright fruit acidity and a remarkably delicate, pure sweetness, even though it looks a great deal like its cousin, the Elephant Bean.

Since 2006, COE has cupped Pacamara from 30 estates, and some of those flavors have been genuine superstars. Examples include the 2006 Honduras champion Santa Martha, the 2007 El Salvador third-place Cerro Negro (Black Mountain Estate), Guatemala's regular COE champion El Injerto, and the 2008 El Salvador runner-up Pacamal Estate. All are exemplary representatives of Pacamara — but all are award-winning lots, which is precisely why they command such high prices.

Pacamara offers a full, rich, and complex cup. Few varieties manage to combine fruit acidity with such prominent sweetness, unfolding diverse notes of stone fruit, vanilla, tropical fruit, chocolate, and spiced sweetness.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

This Guatemala El Injerto lot is a washed coffee, and the washed process is exactly what gives it that clean, bright fruit character. If that style appeals to you, FrontStreet's Yirgacheffe Gedeb cooperative coffee is a fine place to keep exploring. Grown and processed by a skilled collective, it is washed to show jasmine florals and a bright citrus acidity to the fullest; a medium-light roast then draws out green tea and honey tones, and it works beautifully as pour-over, cold brew, or espresso.

For another washed standout, look to FrontStreet's Kenya Small Tomato. Kenya is renowned for double-washed processing — an extra wash, soak, and rinse cycle that pushes the juice-like quality to the extreme. Expect layers of cherry tomato, smoked plum, pear, and black plum sweetness with honeyed sugar, a juicy sweet-and-tart cup that has long been a favorite among coffee lovers.