El Salvador Las Mercedes Pepinal 1

chocolate orange - caramel apple - plum
$1995


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Description

Our El Salvador Las Mercedes Pepinal 1 is back, and we’re roasting up the crowd-pleaser once again! This gem is the ultimate fall single-origin to snuggle up with. Think flavors of rich chocolate orange, caramel apple, and juicy plum – it's autumn in a cup! Plus, the aroma? A heavenly mix of chocolate and salted caramel, all wrapped up in a clean, tangy, malty, smooth and sweet body. Cozy season, meet your perfect coffee companion! 

Pepinal 1 placed 1st in the 2006 El Salvador Cup of Excellence auction with a record 94 points. In his December 2006 assessment, Ken Davids of Coffee Review gave this coffee a whopping 92 points.

Heather Perry has a unique connection to this coffee. An opportunity to teach Barista classes for IWCA (International Women's Coffee Alliance) brought her to the Las Mercedes farm in El Salvador. She was walking through the Pepinal 1 coffee trees when her then-boyfriend Ryan popped out behind the trees to propose to her. The ultimate surprise and proposal.

We at Klatch Coffee were drawn to Las Mercedes because of its great coffee, but we found what we fell in love with was the people, the process, and our shared passion for persistently striving to make coffee the best it can be. The Las Mercedes farm process begins with hand picking only ripe, mature cherries, and then carefully screening them before depulping to eliminate twigs, leaves, and other foreign material. At the wet mill, the cherries are received into ceramic tiled ditches, washed with fresh collected rainwater, and immediately fed into a pulper. These pulpers are designed to separate the bean from the flesh of the fruit while leaving each bean intact in its parchment envelope.

Instead of the usual washed process, Las Mercedes uses a “Double Washed” method for the Pepinal 1, otherwise known as the “Kenya Method”. This method moves the coffee into a special water-filled tank to soak for an additional 24 hours. The tank is then emptied, and the process is repeated, filling the tank and letting the coffee rest for an additional 18-24 hours. After the second soak, the coffee is moved to the drying patios. This process is done in Kenya and in parts of Ethiopia, but the technique varies from place to place.


 

 Learn more about the Las Mercedes farm:


 

Specifications

  • Roast Level
    Medium-Light
  • Varietal
    Bourbon, SL28
  • Process
    Washed
  • Farm
    Finca Las Mercedes
  • Farmer
    Lucia Ortiz
  • Region
    El Salvador
  • Mouthfeel
    Clean & Sweet

Award-Winning

Lot Pepinal 1 placed 1st in 2006 El Salvador Cup of Excellence auction with a record 94 points.


Ken Davids of Coffee Review in his 92 POINTS - December 2006 assessment describes our El Salvador Las Mercedes Pepinal 1 as: "Aroma of sweet tangerine, caramel and muted flowers. The flowers become more pronounced in the cup, saturating the very bright, fruit-floral acidity. The tangerine-like citrus carries into the cup as well, complicated by soft suggestions of black currant and stone fruit. The finish is pleasingly sweet and fruit-toned.Those who enjoy floral delicacy in a light-roasted coffee."

Direct Trade Partner

As part of Klatch Coffee’s direct trade partnership, 25 cents of every pound of this coffee sold goes to support community sports programs and medical clinics in the Las Mercedes community. Finca Las Mercedes is a beautiful coffee farm with owners dedicated to care for their community, their workers, and the environment with the same care that they invest into their coffee. The Ortiz family provides healthcare, food, and clothing to those in the community that are in need. Las Mercedes is committed to ecological care, making efforts to preserve natural wildlife, to maintain compliance with our certifications in the way that the mill’s by-products are disposed of, and to avoid contamination. In the last few years, the Ortiz family has prioritized preservation by planting native trees.

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Customer Reviews

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Norma O.
Preparation methods used:: Pour Over
Light, dark, or somewhere in between?:
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Perfect sip

This coffee is my favorite. It is smooth and simply yum!!

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Caroline
A rich multi layered coffee.

What a wonderful tasting coffee. Rich, smooth, fruit, chocolatey. Wow!

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David
Smooth and flavorful

Very smooth with nice acidity and an excellent finish full of flavor.

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Jeff C.
My favorite

This is my personal favorite over the past few years. Chocolate and rich. I will buy this as long as it's available.

J
Jesse
Dark Chocolate Brownies

One of the most chocolate tasting coffee's I've ever tasted. It's delicious. It has the flavor of Dark Chocolate Brownies.

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Paul
Solid coffee

Nice balanced flavor

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Steven
very good Central American coffee

Using the French press, this was a perfectly roasted nice clean coffee, not too complex, just the right bright acidity, and none of the fruitiness of some of the other Central American beans. Perfect morning coffee.

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sandra
Las Mercedes cafe

One of the best coffee experience. A cup a day, is just perfect. This blend taste just like if I was at a cafe in san salvador

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jim
Klatch does it again

One of the top five beverages I ever had was a limeade served at a Mexican coffee farm as part of a memorable lunch. Just like that limeade, this El Salvador coffee provides the perfect balance of sweet and tart; so refreshing as summer arrives here in New England.

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Jeff C.
My favorite

This is my personal favorite over the past few years. Chocolate and rich. I will buy this as long as it's available.