Lovely! This is a smooth and deep coffee. Flavours are roasted almonds and chocolate - very deep and lazy. This isn't a grab you round the throat flavour hit, it's a fall into a pile of feather duvets flavour experience. Full bodied and well balanced, though with a little bit of powdery bitterness in the finish. A satisfying and pleasing coffee, though lacking intriguing or unusual flavours, and perhaps a bit too soft on the acidity (though I prefer that than being too hard). Initially nutty, then jammy fruit with a slight acidity, before moving to the mildly bitter finish. Chocolate notes throughout.
The coffee comes from the Capucas cooperative in Honduras. The cooperative is largely composed of farmers from the same family and traces its roots to 1885 when Atanacio Rodolfo Romero, great grandfather of the Rodriguez-Romero family, bought land in Capucas. Initially growing tobacco, the family changed to coffee in 1960. The cooperative, Cooperativa Cafetalera Capucas Limitada (COCAFCAL), was founded in 1999.
Honduras coffee has improved in quality and reputation in recent years, and is now regarded as among the world's best. The country uses Bourbon, Catuari, Caturra, Typica and Pacas varieties of Arabica.
Score: 7
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