Nicaragua Finca Buenos Aires

Finca Buenos Aires is located in the Dipilto growing region of Nueva Segovia, right on the border with Honduras. In total, Buenos Aires coveres 70 hectares of land and has been broken into several different plots that are planted in a mix of coffee cultivars. On our visits to Buenos Aires mill we cup through small batches from the farm, and have been impressed with the clean sweetness of their cultivar-specific process batches. This lot is all Caturra, which is a cultivated mutation of Bourbon that occurred in Brazil in the mid '30s, but was planted in South and Central America mostly in the 1950s. Buenos Aires starts 1200 meters above sea level, stretching as high as 1500 meters on the mountain slope. I find their coffee to be very balanced, clean, mild to moderately bright and sweet. It's always such a versatile coffee in terms of roast development and brew method, offering something for both brew and espresso crowds.