ABOUT THIS COFFEE:
Known as “the land of volcanoes,” El Salvador is the smallest Central American country (roughly the same size as New Jersey), but its reputation among specialty-coffee-growing regions has grown larger-than-life, especially since the early 2000s. While coffee was planted and cultivated here mostly for domestic consumption starting in the mid-1700s, it became a stable and significant crop over the next 100 years, notably increasing in national importance during the late 1800s.
The producer of this particular coffee, Martha Yaneth Lemus, is a dedicated specialty coffee producer from the Chalatenango region of El Salvador. Along with her husband, Johny Lemus, she operates a small, highly regarded 1-manzana (approx. 1.7-acre) farm named Finca San Antonio, where she grows Gesha and Pacamara varieties of coffee. The coffee is picked ripe and depulped the same day before being fermented for 24 hours. Then it's washed and dried on raised beds for 15–22 days.
