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Huehuetenango, Guatemala
Counter Culture Direct Trade Certified • Certified Organic • Shade-Grown Longtime partners of Counter Culture who share our passion for quality and sustainability, the talented Recinos family crafts unique, heirloom coffees that sing with notes of caramel, milk chocolate, and fresh summer fruit. View Map. |
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Western Guatemala is rugged country. Forest-covered soaring mountains conceal deep, rocky canyons and roaring rivers. Here, in the state of Huehuetenango, farmers have planted coffee for generations – nestling small coffee farms in the valleys nestled high in the Sierra Madre mountain range. In the late 1940s, a young man from the capital city of Huehuetenango rode out on horseback to find land to plant a farm. He rode until he found land he could buy – high in the mountains near the Mexican border. It was here Antonio Recinos planted coffee, and established Finca Nueva Armenia. By the 1990s, Antonio’s children, who had grown up working on the farm, began to run it, and established it as one of the first certified organic farms in the country. Javier and Jorge Recinos, Antonio’s twin children who now own and manage the farm, run it with a strong sense of tradition and respect for the land. It was love at first taste with us and Finca Nueva Armenia. We began buying coffee from the farm in 2003 and have been smitten with the coffee ever since. We’ve developed a deep friendship with the Recinos family, and we now have a close relationship that allows us to buy and roast the cream of the crop from this extraordinary farm. There’s a lot that’s special about Finca Nueva Armenia. First, the geography: the farm is planted in a spectacular valley, and the coffee rises up the steep sides of lush, green mountains. Natural springs burst from these mountainsides, and the cold, crystal clear streams bring pure water to the farm for irrigation and coffee washing. The altitude and steep sides of the valley create warm days and cold nights, perfect for developing coffee flavor. The fresh, abundant, pure water of the farm’s springs make it possible to ferment, wash, and dry the coffee in the old way, just as it has been done since the 1940s. The farm is still planted with heirloom Bourbon Rojo and Typica coffee varieties, and the coffee plants are protected from the Guatemalan sun by dense, indigenous forest. The result is a classic coffee, perhaps the perfect example of Central American deliciousness – sweet, balanced, and clean, with notes of nut, gentle fruit and caramel. Finca Nueva Armenia is timeless, virtually unchanged for the past 60 years, and this coffee is to taste what great coffee was like in our Grandparents’ time. Please help us celebrate this truly magnificent coffee tradition. - Peter
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It was love at first taste with us and Finca Nueva Armenia. We began buying coffee from the farm in 2003 and have been smitten with the coffee ever since. We’ve developed a deep friendship with the Recinos family, and we now have a close relationship that allows us to buy and roast the cream of the crop from this extraordinary farm.
The fresh, abundant, pure water of the farm’s springs make it possible to ferment, wash, and dry the coffee in the old way, just as it has been done since the 1940s. The farm is still planted with heirloom Bourbon Rojo and Typica coffee varieties, and the coffee plants are protected from the Guatemalan sun by dense, indigenous forest. The result is a classic coffee, perhaps the perfect example of Central American deliciousness – sweet, balanced, and clean, with notes of nut, gentle fruit and caramel. Finca Nueva Armenia is timeless, virtually unchanged for the past 60 years, and this coffee is to taste what great coffee was like in our Grandparents’ time. Please help us celebrate this truly magnificent coffee tradition.