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Guatemalan - Guatemala Huehuetenango Finca Rosma - Finca Rosma is a small farm near Michicoy town in San Pedro Necta area of Huehuetenango. It’s not far from other farms we have bought from, like Finca Huixoc and La Providencia Dos. Finca Rosma is owned by the Rosales family, managed by the son Fredy Rosales. The name is in honor of his grandmother, Rosemarie. It’s located on a high ridge where you drive in to the farm at nearly 1900 meters, then descend down to the mill at around 1600 meters. When Alejandro Rosales bought the farm in 1963, the only way to get there was by foot, or horseback. It’s not that easy of a trek by road, either. The farm is quite steep, typical for the high ridges of the Sierra Los Cuchumatanes mountains. Processing is wet-process, traditional fermentation, but they are working with a very tight space; there is not a lot of flat areas in this topography. So they have to manage their batch sizes carefully or they will rapidly run out of patio space for sun-drying the coffee. Regardless of the details, they are producing an amazing coffee, and I wouldn’t suggest that they change a thing! Since it was #2 in the 2010 CoE, it seems others agree.
The Finca Rosma is so sweet in the aromatics, laced with prized floral and fruited elements. The dry grounds have plum and dark cherry notes, with mild milk chocolate roast tones. The wet aroma has the essence of sweet cherry, rose blossom, vanilla, dark honey and an intriguing hint of rosemary. It’s a very attractive set of scents. The cup has lively brightness of a Huehuetenango, with all these nuanced flavors suggested by the aroma; roses, red plums, red apple, cherry. It’s a luminescent cup at City roast, on the lighter end of the roast spectrum. As the roast get’s toward Full City+ and second crack, it is predictably more pungent in roast taste, more bitter-sweet. Still, red apple fruit notes (a bit like apple cider) come through, as well as cinnamon and allspice. Cupping credit: Tom Owen.
Processing: Wet; Varietal: Bourbon, Arabigo, and others. Appearance: 17-18 screen. (15 oz. bag)
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