Nicaragua - El Perote

This coffee has notes of milk chocolate, passion fruit and strawberry.

Region - Jinotega

Farm - Mario Gonzalez

Variety - Catuai, Catimnor

Process - Carbonic

Altitude - 1400m

Roast  - Light/ Medium

Finca El Perote is situated in Dipilto, in the Nueva Segovia a department of Nicaragua, close to the Honduras border. El Perote shares its name with the names given to the microregion where it’s located. The farm is nestled within lush forested hills, culminating to 1600 masl.

His owner, Mario Gonzales is a first generation coffee farmer. After years managing pine wood farms, him and his family turned to coffee in 2006 after a change in the Nicaraguan legislation around logging operations.

Today, he owns three different farms in the department of Nueva Segovia, including Los Suyates that we have also imported this year. The farms are managed withing the family and Jairo, mario’s son-in-lawn, had a major role defining the model of the farm. As a qualified agronomist, he has helped design and manage the farm from scratch.

El Perote is a small 7 hecatres farm growing catuai and catimor under the shade of pines and other native species.