Nicaragua Finca El Cipres - Microlot

ABOUT THIS COFFEE:

Coffee Farm: Finca El Cipres is a 20-hectare farm in Nueva Segovia that was founded in 2000. It is owned by Isacio Javier Albir Vilchez. Originally a cattle ranch, in 2004 the owner decided to convert it to a coffee farm to restore the native vegetation cover of the farm and conserve the coniferous forests that still exist on the land. 

The farm employs members of the local community in an effort to help reduce poverty. It is their goal to continue producing quality specialty coffees while supporting their community. Their wet processed coffee is harvested only when ripe. It is then transferred to the Agua Sarca farm where the wet mill is located. Here it is cleaned and floated with recycled water before being dry pulped. Then the coffee is left to ferment for 36 hours and washed, packed in polypropylene sacks, and sent to Cafetos de Segovia. Natural, anaerobic fermentation, and other processes are also carried out. 

Coffee Variety: Parainema Parainema is a variety within the Sarchimor (T5296) group that traces back to CIFC's research on rust resistance in 1958/59 in Portugal. It began with the Timor hybrid, a natural cross of Arabica and Robusta that occurred on the island of Timor, with the Robusta counterpart providing rust resistance. The research group eventually crossed Timor with the compact Villa Sarchi variety, creating Sarchimor (H361). In 1971, Sarchimor was then given to research groups in many countries just as coffee leaf rust was spreading throughout Central America. By 1978, the plant was showing promise as a dwarfed rust-resistant hybrid evolving into what researchers in Costa Rica called T5296. Samples of this Costa Rica selection were sent to IHCAFE in Honduras, and further generations of selections produced the country's Parainema. It is a high-yield and quality plant that is able to be planted densely due to its dwarfed size. It is resistant to rust and nematodes and well-adapted to medium altitudes.