Santa Isabel

$26.00

Caramel sweetness with red plum and nashi pear

Origin: Cobán, Guatemala
Variety: Caturra
Process: Washed
Producer: Valdés Family
Relationship length: since 2011

Shipping

We strive to dispatch all orders within one working day of your purchase. (Please note, Western Australia shipments may take longer than usual to arrive, as Australia Post is currently experiencing delays due to weather.)

Standard post is FREE for orders over $60 (or $7.95 for orders under $60) Australia-wide.

Express Post is $9.95 Australia-wide.

In addition we offer free Click and Collect from our Weston St Roastery in Brunswick East, Monday - Friday between 8am till 3pm. Orders are usually ready within 24 hours.

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Santa Isabel Estate is a 300-hectare farm in Guatemala’s Alta Verapaz department – a unique, mountainous growing region with a cool climate, dense rainforest and high rainfall. The Valdés family has been farming here since 1875, and the estate is now run by fifth-generation producer Luis ‘Wicho’ Valdés, whose coffee we’ve been offering since 2011.

Wicho is fastidious in every aspect of his coffee production. He continuously invests in farm improvements to further enhance coffee quality, and to better care for and preserve the area’s natural environment. In addition to dedicating a third of Santa Isabel Estate to natural reserve, he has begun to embrace more organic and biodynamic farming practices.

In recent years, through the application of natural micro-organisms to the coffee trees, Wicho has managed to cut out all use of pesticides and most of his fungicide use. This progressive approach has led to healthier, more resilient trees that produce deliciously distinct and wonderfully complex coffees.