Guatemala Armando Quinteros

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Our first Guatemalan release from the 2023 harvest marks the second consecutive season that coffee from Armando Quinteros has been sold on the international market, and we've once again purchased his entire volume produced! We’ve been steadily This is the third consecutive season that coffee from Armando Quinteros has been sold on the international market, and we've once again purchased nearly his entire harvest. We’ve been intentionally increasing our volume from this area of Guatemala the past few years in continued solidarity with the Cafe Colis Resistencia group. Armando Quinteros owns a 2 hectare farm, El Matazano, in a remote region called El Volcanito - located near the town of Casillas. More generally speaking, this coffee growing region is around a 3 hour drive directly East from Antigua, where we source a large portion of our Guatemalan coffees with Beneficio Bella Vista. 

This year’s selection from Armando Quinteros exemplifies all you could want in a classically comforting Guatemalan coffee!  It offers a full body, heavy sweetness, and familiar dominant flavors of milk chocolate, brown sugar, and nut butter. Armando’s coffee in particular showcases a juicy, cooked fruit acidity that brings to mind flavors of cherry pie. We’re tasting: orange, cherry, apple juice, almond butter, nutella, nougat, vanilla, root beer, baking spices, tootsie roll, milk chocolate.