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Nicaragua La Bastilla Estate – Filter Roast

Farm: La Bastilla Estate
Body:  Full
Acidity:  High
Process: Fully Washed
Cupping Score:  86

Tasting Notes:  Delicate, juicy tea like cup with sweet fruits of peach, orange, strawberry and floral rose. Rounded citric and berry acidity. Finishing with apricot and caramel notes.

Background: La Bastilla Farm was established 2003 when the company took over two abandoned estates in the Jinotega/Matagalpa region.  Over the following 16 years, the farms were replanted new diverse range of varietals, and infrastructure was renewed including roads, living quarters and, mill and processing plant.  Certified Rainforest Alliance provides environmental policies, as well as groundwork to establish a unique education project giving opportunities to young children and adolescents in the local area.

Priding themselves on being one of the few specialty coffee estate companies in Nicaragua with a fully integrated supply chain segment at origin, meaning they plant, produce, harvest, process, classify and market/export all of their green coffee beans globally.  At the fully integrated wet and dry processing plant of La Bastilla Estate, they differentiate the coffees harvested from different farm sections or different varieties with 4 different processes.  These lots then await “orders” for hulling/grading and export.  Each season La Bastilla produces approximately 350 micro-lots.

The four processes used on the farm are:

Fully Washed – traditional processing. dried at 45 degrees C.

Honey processed – Specially selected lots harvested mid-crop are dried with the mucilage still attached to the parchment skin.

Yeast Fermentation -Using specialty yeasts (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) made by Lallemand for fermentation in a controlled environment (bins) which give the coffee an additional layer of tropical fruit and floral aromas. These special, washed lots have tropical-fruit-like notes.

Natural processed – Selective hand picking of very ripe sections of the farm are processed as Naturals. A long slow drying process occurs in two stages. The details of this process are a “trade secret” mentioned their very our mill manager, Victor.  La Bastilla Natural lots have deep and exotic black-fruit-like notes.

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