Las Delicias, Washed Java, Nicaragua

Flavour description: A sweet aroma of dried apricot. This is a delicate cup with notes of apricot, brown sugar and citric zest with a cooling finish. The coffee has a light to medium mouthfeel of elderflower lemonade.

Colour: Turquoise
Category: Curious
Producer:  The Mierisch family
Varietal: Java
Processing: Fully washed. Common for Nicaragua, the coffee is washed and separated by density directly at the farm before it is taken by truck to the process station. At the processing station the coffee is de-pulped (beans removed from the coffee cherry), fermented overnight and dried on raised beds. 
Location: Lipululu in the region Jinotega
Farm size: 20 manzanas (about 13 hectares) 
Elevation: 1450-1500 meters above sea level 
Harvest: January to February 2024
Price Transparency: The FOB price paid for this coffee was $4,00 US/Ib

Las Delicias Washed Java is produced by the Mierisch family and is one of the prettiest most well-balanced coffees we have had all year. Since 2016 the Las Delicias farm was run by Eleane Mierisch, but unfortunately we lost her in 2023. Eleane was very dear friend to us and one of the leading lights in coffee processing in Nicaragua and Honduras, a field traditionally dominated by men. We are so happy to have this coffee from Las Delicias, the first farm belonging to entirely to Eleane, to remind us of her pioneering spirit and warm personality.

Thankfully, this Las Delicias was not a one woman show, but a team approach, as Eleane enlisted the entire Mierisch family, who consist of three generations, to help. Today Dr Erwin Mierisch, his son Erwin and his grand son Erwin Jr carry on with a focus on perfecting the Java varietal at this farm. Their skill and expertise is evident in the delicate and bright profile of their Javas (as well as numerous times they've won Nicaragua's "Cup of Excellence"), which gets more and more intense notes of citric and apricot every year. And with natural processing, as in this case, it has even more passion fruit and fudge. We love this coffee so much that we even used it as the mother plant to the Java we are buying from La Linda in Bolivia!

The Mierisch family are also very active in developing numerous social and environmental projects to improve the quality of life for the hundreds of workers they employ, local community and ecosystem. If any one producer could single handedly demonstrate just how significantly coffee can positively impact society it'd have to be them.

Click here to learn more about the Mierisch Family and Las Delicias.

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