TRACEABLE COFFEE

Guatemala Finca Quequezques

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Producer:  Delgado Family/Finca Quequezques

Country:  Guatemala

Region:  San Juan Sacatépequez

Process:  Washed

Harvest Season:  January–March

Varieties:  Bourbon, Catuaí, Caturra

MASL:  1550–1750

Mandarin Orange | Baked Apple | Dark Chocolate | Brown Sugar

We’re pleased to offer this Guatemalan coffee with expanded traceability from Finca Quequezques.

Through a partnership with Sustainable Harvest, we’re pleased to offer exceptional coffee from Finca Quequezques (pronounced: keh-kehz-kehz). The Delgado family has farmed coffee on these lands in the fertile highlands of San Juan Sacatepéquez for generations. Once a pine forest, Finca Quequezques is now a fully integrated coffee farm and mill operation, allowing the Delgados to maintain a high level of quality control over their output, working both with a focus on tradition and sustainability.

The name “Quequezques” comes from an indigenous name for a broad-leafed plant which grows in these mountain altitudes. It’s a fitting connection between the Delgado family’s business and the land, which with its rich volcanic soil (and temperate microclimate) is generous towards the production of beautiful coffee. And, of course, where coffee is grown in the gentle shade of native forests.

Several varieties, including many heirloom coffees, are grown here under a canopy of shade trees, guided by an agroforestry system established to provide resiliency to shifting climatic patterns and enhance soil richness. Grown in balance with nature, coffee production is not only more reliable, but quality and flavor attributes are also enhanced. In the cup, we found fruity notes of orange, cooked apple, and comforting chocolate and brown sugar.