{"product_id":"39774-1","title":"Crown Jewel Guatemala Washed Coccioes José Padilla \u0026 Gonzalo Hernández - 39774-1 - SPOT RCWHSE","description":"\u0026lt;div\u0026gt;\u0026lt;span\u0026gt;In 2011 friends José Padilla and Gonzalo Hernández gathered coffee seeds from their first project, a varietal coffee estate, or “garden” as they called it, in Costa Rica. They brought the seeds to a new location, in\u0026amp;nbsp;Suchitán, Guatemala, to\u0026amp;nbsp;establish\u0026amp;nbsp;a second estate modeled after the first. Combined, these two coffee “gardens”,\u0026amp;nbsp;both known as Coffea\u0026amp;nbsp;Diversa, now make up the largest private collection of coffee botanical variants in the world—more\u0026amp;nbsp;that\u0026amp;nbsp;850 in total.\u0026amp;nbsp;\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt; \u0026lt;span\u0026gt;This small lot of washed\u0026amp;nbsp;“coccoies”\u0026amp;nbsp;is from the\u0026amp;nbsp;Suchitán\u0026amp;nbsp;“garden”.\u0026amp;nbsp;Little is known about this cultivar except that it is likely a wild Ethiopian landrace collected near the city of Jimma in Ethiopia’s southwest. The stature of the plant is\u0026amp;nbsp;tall,\u0026amp;nbsp;spacious, and yields are extremely low compared to commercial cultivars.\u0026amp;nbsp;The cup flavors\u0026amp;nbsp;of this tiny\u0026amp;nbsp;microlot\u0026amp;nbsp;are\u0026amp;nbsp;very impressive, like the best Ethiopians or new world\u0026amp;nbsp;geshas,\u0026amp;nbsp;and\u0026amp;nbsp;are\u0026amp;nbsp;intensely floral with syrupy sweet stone fruit,\u0026amp;nbsp;bright tomato,\u0026amp;nbsp;strawberry lemonade, and fresh basil.\u0026amp;nbsp;\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt; \u0026lt;b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;span\u0026gt;Coffea\u0026amp;nbsp;Diversa\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;span\u0026gt;\u0026amp;nbsp;\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt; \u0026lt;span\u0026gt;José and Gonzalo insist their estates are not coffee farms but gardens: “like in a conventional flower garden in which you find many types of plants producing many different types of flowers, in the Coffea\u0026amp;nbsp;Diversa\u0026amp;nbsp;Garden you will find many different types of rare coffee botanical variants.” They have a clear, and not\u0026amp;nbsp;incorrect,\u0026amp;nbsp;vision for the value of arabica diversity. Most of the world’s coffee has almost no genetic variation; differences in taste are\u0026amp;nbsp;largely generated\u0026amp;nbsp;by terroir. Coffea\u0026amp;nbsp;Diversa\u0026amp;nbsp;follows the opposite approach, introducing\u0026amp;nbsp;a huge range\u0026amp;nbsp;of genetics to single, preselected terroirs, allowing genetic differences to assert themselves in the cup. Part of the motivation is modeling durability: an ideal coffee farm will have genetic diversity in its coffee, at a minimum to make it more resilient against pests and diseases, but also to keep it competitive and prolific.\u0026amp;nbsp;\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt; \u0026lt;span\u0026gt;During harvest, fresh picked cherry\u0026amp;nbsp;from the farm’s small plot of\u0026amp;nbsp;coccoies\u0026amp;nbsp;is collected and\u0026amp;nbsp;depulped\u0026amp;nbsp;the following day.\u0026amp;nbsp;Depulping\u0026amp;nbsp;is done using a Penagos machine, which\u0026amp;nbsp;depulps\u0026amp;nbsp;and pressure washes the sticky mucilage from the coffee seed to a predetermined degree. Once\u0026amp;nbsp;depulped\u0026amp;nbsp;the parchment is fermented for\u0026amp;nbsp;48 hours\u0026amp;nbsp;and then washed clean. Drying takes place on raised and lightly shaded screen beds and typically lasts 12-15 days, during which it is rotated 3 times per day.\u0026amp;nbsp;\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br \/\u0026gt;\u0026lt;\/div\u0026gt;","brand":"Royal Coffee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67600142893363,"sku":"3427097000059882584","price":479.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/7672\/2364\/files\/rcf-coffee-info-2d9764a78c0b963e316529d4bd4d59f0a270c0259624bc89c9056998db643a12.jpg?v=1789809037","url":"https:\/\/royalcoffee.com\/products\/39774-1","provider":"Royal Coffee","version":"1.0","type":"link"}