Heart and Graft

This is a washed coffee from Finca La Esperanza owned and operated by Francisco Morales. The farm is located near the town of Ciprasales in the north of the country very close to the Mexican border.

On the dry aroma we have a nutty note and bitter dark chocolate maybe a touch of Lime, at the break; more of the same. The flavour is of darker cocoa with a bit of nuttiness toward almond. Theres a hint of raisin and malic acidity in there but it's quite muted. The roast is firmly pointed to espresso, the development has been taken a bit further for this, that is quite understandable and totally fair enough, especially for a subscription box coffee where its likely the majority will brew using a home espresso machine, but the SCA score sheet doesnt really reward this.

Its a very good coffee, no doubt about that and would probably score higher roasted more for filter, but with this profile its going to be more of a winner through the espresso machine and in milk than as a drip coffee. Sure enough it makes a very tasty flat white where it softens to sweeter chocolate and toffee so thats how Ill be finishing drinking this one.

Cupping Method:I cupped it twice after letting it rest a bit longer as it was only a week after roasting the first time and there were a still few B-52? roasty notes.

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