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Pirineos

Salvador - Usulutan - Pirineos - Pacamara - UW

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Tasting the Baraona family's Pacamaras is like tasting a piece of the history of speciality coffee. Today, the farm is run by son Diego, but it's impossible to miss his father, Gilberto, a pioneer in the development of this variety.

Before tragically succumbing to Covid-19, Gilberto Baraona was one of the country's most renowned producers. He was one of the first to plant Pacamara on his farms, as is still the case today.

Since taking over the family farm, his son Diego has continued the tradition, producing Pacamaras of excellent quality. Of course, with the same rigour and passion that drove his father to win several prizes for this variety.

After being harvested, the coffee cherries are taken to the Los Pirineos drying station, where they are pulped, placed on drying beds and stirred regularly to ensure even drying.

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  • Origin

    El Salvador
  • Region

    Tecapa Chinameca
  • Terroir

    Usulutan
  • Farm

    Pirineos
  • Producer

    Famille Baraona
  • Species

    Arabica
  • Variety

    Pacamara

  • Process

    Natural

  • Drying

    Drying beds

  • Packaging

    69kg - Jute bags

  • Altitude

    1600
  • Harvest period

    December - April
  • Type of harvest

    Manual

The farm Pirineos

The farm takes its name from the Pyrenees mountain range between France and Spain. Los Pirineos is a group of farms covering 80 hectares. Coffee is grown on 60 hectares and 10 hectares of wild forest are preserved. Today, Los Pirineos comprises 17 micro-farms, including Las Palmas and La Cumbre.

If you go to the Los Pirineos farm, you'll find 10 hectares devoted to growing top-quality coffees, including the following varieties: red and yellow bourbon, tekisic, pacas, pacamara, colombia, catisic, icatu, casiopea, anacafe 14, laurina, heirloom...

  • Total number of hectares

    10
  • Number of hectares cultivated

    10
  • Altitude

    1350-1450
  • Environment

    Mountainous
  • Rainfall

    2000-2500
  • Ground

    Volcanic

Meet Famille Baraona

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A few words about Famille Baraona

Diego Baraona is the manager of Los Pirineos, the family farm he took over at the end of 2020. By his own admission, Diego grew up "next to coffee". He is, in fact, part of the 5thᵉ generation of coffee growers.

If the farm is now a benchmark in speciality coffee, we owe it to Diego's father, the visionary Gilberto Baraona. He was responsible for transforming the farm into a speciality coffee farm in the late 2000s.

In 2020, while Diego was studying engineering in Barcelona, Spain, Gilberto died suddenly of Covid-19. Gilberto was a very well-known producer in El Salvador, having won numerous awards including El Salvador Coffee Farmer of the Year 2018 and 17 Cup Of Excellence awards.

At the age of 25, Diego had a choice to make: continue his studies or take over the farm with his mother, Fabiola, and his brothers. A question of destiny? Perhaps it was. But, above all, the desire to continue his father's work, and to perpetuate the family tradition of quality coffee: "When my father left, he left us a great legacy with Los Pirineos. It's a model farm, focused on quality. Today, I'm delighted to have taken over the running of Los Pirineos".

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Density

691g/l

Humidity level

10.6%

Water activity

0.5964aw


Screen

+13


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