Nicaragua La Bastilla El Espejo H17 Hybrid

Mike is excited to introduce our H17 Hybrid varietal from the La Bastilla El Espejo lot. This coffee features a medium juicy body, with flavor notes of cocoa, orange spice, and nutty sweet nougat throughout the cup. The H17 Hybrid is a cross between Caturra and Ethiopian Landrace Rume Sudan.

The largest part of our crop is fully washed, the traditional processing method for fine milds, and dried at 45 degrees C. The washed parchment is classified with clean water in the "Colombian channel" prior to drying. La Bastilla Estate pride themselves to be one of the few (if not the only) specialty coffee estate companies in Nicaragua with a fully integrated supply chain segment at origin. This means that they plant, produce, harvest, process, classify, and market/export all of their green coffee beans directly from the farm to their final destinations all around the world. Therefore, the La Bastilla Estate guarantees the quality and traceability of their products and their production of special, certified Rainforest Alliance coffee. La Bastilla Estate is currently working on a coffee plantation renovation programme to expand in the next five years.

They are thrilled that both of our plantations have consistently been certified by Rainforest Alliance since 2003. The process of renewing part of our old plantations and replanting hybrid and good cupping varieties was started in 2017, and you will see the results in this year's crop.

La Bastilla has developed an interesting matrix of micro-lot processing during the past 2 years, which have found good acceptance in the specialty coffee community worldwide. We harvest and process separately and from fully mature cherries coffee from 19 different sections of the farm, each from different live zones (i.e. altitude, sun exposure, soil conditions, tree coverage) expressing different cup profiles.