Guatemalan Huehuetenango Finca Vista Hermosa “La Vega”

Description

Tasting Notes:
The most “classic” Huehue tasting coffee out of the FVH lineup. Way cleaner and sweeter with greater depth of flavor than your average Huehue. Medium bodied cup with a very silky texture. Pronounced malty tones and semi-sweet chocolate balanced with that “huehue” winey acidity; which can give a little soft fruit tone at the light to medium roasts. A little floral lemony crispness that adds some sweetness at medium roasts. A cup pretty much everyone will love.

Roasting Notes:          
From light to dark a stand up cup! We would recommend a medium to dark roast to develop the great chocolate and malty tones. We liked the lighter roasts as well but they get a bit more floral and citrusy,t throws the balance with the darker tones. Darker roasts a pleasant as well but flattens out the profile a bit and it loses some sweetness.

Varieties: Caturra, Catuai, Bourbon

I have been so excited waiting for these coffees to arrive. We finally twisted Edwins and Blakes arm enough over the years to get them to run us some very cool micro lots and also save us some of the best top lots from the farm! Due to international demand, FVH coffee has been very hard to get, the last couple of years we have been lucky to get 10 bags of a random lot and it has gone quick.

The La Vega is a top lot from FVH. It starts a bit below the main road (1600m) coming in to the farm but keeps going past the road a bit up the mountain. So about 1500m-1640m. One of the lower plots on the farm (4500 feet at the lowest point is still very high grown coffee) but also is the first field that called FVH home, spanning back 3 generations. This is where it all began and has been a great production field ever since.

FVH is a model farm. Edwin Jr. is reknowed for his consultant work on the ground in Huehuetenango. If a new farm works with him for a couple of years, its bound to be seen on the COE winning list. Okay maybe I am talking him up a bit too much but over the 15+ years we have been working with him, we have seen it spawn so many award winning coffees and operations including another one of our favorites, Finca De Dios. All of this success is modeled after his own farm, FVH.

You can read about Finca Vista Hermosa and view more pictures here: Our Trip to Guatemala

Edwin’s farm has won the cup of excellence in previous years and also has been used by Anacafe for the perfect example of what a Huehue. can be.

The original Mayan managed farm and one of the few farms to survive the Guatemalan Revolution. Although this is a farm, if you ever went there – it is more of a village than a traditional farm like we have here. Edwin and his family have very little to do with the actual operations of the farm, its all done by the village. The Guatemalan government really does not extend out to the rural areas so it is up to Edwin and his family to help build roads, schools, doctor clinics, give housing loans and take care of any emergency that may arise – I tell you they do a fantastic job.