Farm info

Esmerin Enamorado moved to San Luis Planes as a young boy with his family in 1982. He began working as a laborer on his neighbors’ coffee farms as a teen and quickly fell in love with coffee, learning all that he could about agronomic practices. He purchased his first farm in 1995 with money he had saved, and planted coffee there where he found success as a coffee producer. Five years later he purchased another farm, and in 2000 he started his own business buying and selling coffee to the local market, further establishing himself in the world of coffee.

In the early 2010s, Esmerin got his first opportunity to sell a microlot of coffee to a specialty roaster. While that single lot earned him good money, he was unable to repeat the business with the roaster and returned to conventional coffee production. It wasn’t until 2019 that he entered a regional quality competition, Oro de Santa Barbara, and earned 2nd place with a microlot he had prepared. Encouraged by the success, Esmerin has since dedicated himself to producing specialty microlots with diligence and care, taking great satisfaction in being able to continue doing what he loves.

This lot of Parainema and Java coffee underwent Washed processing. Freshly harvested cherries are pulped each afternoon before the coffee is placed into fermentation tanks where it is dry fermented for 20 hours. The fermented coffee is then rinsed four times with water to remove all of the mucilage from the parchment before the coffee is taken to the drying area. The parchment coffee is dried in a parabolic solar dryer for 12–18 days, during which the coffee is sorted for defects throughout.