Finca El Puente
Honduras
Marcala
$15.50/lb.



This week's Friday Fresh is the new crop of El Puente, just off the boat.  I love this coffee, it is so fragrant and flavorful.  We hosted Marysabel and Moises a couple of years ago with their family and the pride they showed in their coffee shines through every sip.  I'm thrilled to bring back El Puente and it will be a regular on our coffee board for quite a while.

The Coffee... El Puente is referred to as ‘The Purple Princess,’ because its perfume and silkiness seem femenine and regal, and the aromas and flavors of the cup - lavender, plum, grape, incense - all seem purple.  Marysabel Caballero, who runs the farm with her husband Moises Herrera, is known as “La Dama del Café” in Honduras.  This coffee’s fame is richly deserved, its layer upon layer of perfumed complexity and sweet intensity are evidence of perfectly ripe picking and immaculate processing.