Clean & well-balanced, sweet & easy-drinking espressos come in a nuanced spectrum in our Specialty Selection. Enjoy your exploration with these new El Salvador additions from Finca El Cerro.

What we love about these two coffees is that they are both well-balanced and sweet, but in unique ways, because of different processing approaches. Washed has more of a crisp character, with notes of molasses, apple, honey, and raisins, while Natural has a richer character, with notes of purple grape, plums, cherry, and chocolate. 

Finca El Cerro, or The Hill Farm, in El Salvador’s coffee-growing zone Apaneca, Ahuachapan, has been stewarded by five generations in Fernando Leto Escobar’s ancestral line. In 2016, Fernando, who had studied for a different career at university and had been working in a distant industry, decided to take on the leadership role at the farm from his father, the elder Don Fernando to embrace a way of life that he felt to be instinctively aligned with his values.

Since taking over, Fernando has been focused on raising the quality and value of the farm’s yields. It’s a matter of sustaining livelihoods. It’s also his way of embracing a filial and civic duty, while pursuing his personal passion for coffee. 

By continuing his family's stake in high quality coffee production, Finca El Cerro contributes to revival efforts honoring El Salvador’s historical prominence as a high quality coffee producing country that has been challenged by structural constraints and environmental challenges at least in the last three decades.

Shop here or visit our roastery in Sharjah soon for your share of these easy-drinking, everyday coffees, produced by Fernando Escobar at Finca El Cerro, with the intention to recast a brighter light on El Salvador’s great contributions to our world of coffee.