Coffee Bios
La Minita has been working with the Silva family since 2014 but have been familiar with their coffee since the El Salvador Cup of Excellence Auction in 2005. With the Silva’s family dedication to quality is illustrated in the cup quality. They have various processes to offer including: semi washed, patio dried, various honey and natural processes.
La Minita has been working with the Silva family since 2014 but have been familiar with their coffee since the El Salvador Cup of Excellence Auction in 2005. With the Silva’s family dedication to quality is illustrated in the cup quality. They have various processes to offer including: semi washed, patio dried, various honey and natural processes.
La Minita has been working with the Silva family since 2014 but have been familiar with their coffee since the El Salvador Cup of Excellence Auction in 2005. With the Silva’s family dedication to quality is illustrated in the cup quality. They have various processes to offer including: semi washed, patio dried, various honey and natural processes.
La Minita has been working with the Silva family since 2014 but have been familiar with their coffee since the El Salvador Cup of Excellence Auction in 2005. With the Silva’s family dedication to quality is illustrated in the cup quality. They have various processes to offer including: semi washed, patio dried, various honey and natural processes.
Ayarza is located in Santa Rosa department, northeast in Guatemala. Ayarza is an important plot for specialty coffee production in Guatemala, due to the altitudes where coffee is planted and climatic conditions. Most of the producers are smallholders with the predominant practice of selling the coffee in cherry. Some of them are already processing their own coffee increasing potential to separate great qualities.
Bela Vista farm is located in South of Minas, under a special micro region which produces top quality coffee from high lands. It’s a familiar and traditional farm with most updated farming techniques. Producing under best agricultural practices with full traceability and certified by Utz Good Inside. In addition, the farm sponsors a primary school to worker's children and rural community which surrounds the farm. Fazenda Bela Vista Washed Yellow Bourbon has notes of red fruit, a mild acidity, and a creamy body.
Calahute means Free Deer. The farm is currently managed by the third generation of the Anzueto family, who have worked since 1952 when the production was approximately thirty (30) quintals (46kg) of parchment coffee. We continue working with the same mission of producing a differentiated specialty coffee, maintaining good agricultural practices and friendly to the environment.
Finca el Botón is part of La Minita's Jardín mill quality program where producers are paid a per pound premium for exceptionally picked and processed coffees. El Botón produces the large-beaned Maragogipe variety and experiments with other processing methods such as natural coffees. Finca El Boton exhibits notes of cherry-chocolate, malt, and walnut.
Finca La Bella is a well regarded plantation in Guatemala. La Minita has been working with Juan de la Cerda and his family for recent years. The farm produces mild washed coffees and utilizes many techniques that are beneficial to their environment. The coffees exhibit a winey acidity, creamy body with a chocolate aroma.
Finca La Meseta is a small farm on the outskirts of Jardín, Colombia. The farm utilizes rasied beds and a warehouse where the coffee in parchment can dry evenly under cover. Finca la Meseta is part of La Minita's Jardín mill quality program where producers are paid a per pound premium for exceptionally picked and processed coffees. Finca La Meseta is balanced with pleasant chocolate, orange, and vanilla notes.
Felix Galan has been delivering his coffee to La Minita's Jardin mill since 2008 and only recently have we begun the process of keeping his deliveries separate to sell as single farm coffee. The unique west-facing location of Finca Orizaba in the Andes micro-region of Jardin gives this coffee a different cup profile from other Andes coffees showcasing extra orange citrus notes and a honeyed sweetness.
Located in Santa Maria de Dota, Finca La Pastora has been in the same family for over 60 years. La Minita has worked with Finca La Pastora since 2004. For several years the farm supplied great quality cherry to our mill, Beneficio Rio Tarrazu. In 2011 the farm built its own micromill and now supplies us both cherry and green coffee. La Pastora processes the coffees in many ways that highlight the differences of each process.
Back in 1870, the Silva family decided to sow coffee trees in one of the highest summits of the Apaneca-Ilamatepec Mountain Range. They named the 28 hectares of land Siberia, for its chaotic weather conditions and its difficult accessibility. The Silva family processes the coffees from Finca La Siberia in many ways and they are very sweet, clean, and balanced with red fruit and honey flavors.
The road drags you in a landscape of unsuspected beauty. The dirt disguises every mile like daring your imagination to find what you think is an ideal terrain for growing such a noble bean. The narrower the path, the wider view posing with luxuriant nature and magnificent mountain hills until your eyes discover El Guatalón y Anexos, integrated by five parcels: La Loma, El Cuje, La Buganvilia, El Pajuil and El Guatalón. The first one belongs to Jalapa department while the other three are located in Santa Rosa department, in the municipality of Santa Rosa de Lima.
Since the late 1960’s, Hacienda La Minita has been the foundation of our company. We have exported coffee under the La Minita banner since 1985, becoming one of the initial coffees to be sold as a single estate coffee in the world. Milling operations were added in the early 2000’s and in 2014, the operation was acquired by ITO EN.
