Bracia Ziółkowscy - Honduras Caballero Las Lomas Natural Filter 250 g

Origin: Honduras

Region: Chiancla, La Paz

Farm: Las Lomas, Marysabel Caballero i Moises Herrera

Variety: Catuai

Processing: Natural

Altitude: 1600 m a.s.l.

Cupping score: 86 / 100

ABOUT THE FARM

Marysabel Caballero and her husband, Moises Herrera, are second and third-generation coffee producers. They inherited their farms from their parents and creatively evolved their cultivation and processing methods. They have been working with specialty coffee since the early 2000s and achieved legendary status long ago. Year after year, they produce the highest quality green beans, serving as pioneers not only of specialty coffee in Honduras but also of new processing techniques. They were the ones who successfully adapted natural processing to the challenging climatic conditions of Honduras.

The Caballero family owns nearly 200 hectares of land divided into 17 different farms in the Marcala region of eastern Honduras. All their operations are centered at a central washing station – Xincala. This is where all the cherries they harvest are processed. The family constantly invests in the station's development, making it possible to continuously improve quality.

Marysabel and Moises's farms feature clay-like soil, and the main variety they grow is Catuai, though they also have Java, Pacamara, and Geisha trees.

ROASTER'S OPINION

We roasted our first naturals from Caballero in 2020. A lot has changed since then. Back then, the processing still had its flaws; there were many heavily over-fermented beans that roasted darker than the rest, creating a slight "muddiness" or what some called "tarriness" in the cup. Today, that is completely gone. This is a sweet, jammy, and thick natural, yet remarkably clean and transparent at the same time. We were fans of those coffees back then, but now we are truly blown away.

Store in a cold and dry space.