Tutti Frutti

Producer: Roger y Isabel, Finca Las Mercedes 

Origin: Nicaragua

Region: Matagalpa

Process: Natural + carbonic maceration

Altitude: 1330 masl

This special microlot from husband and wife producers Roger y Isabel of Fina Las Mercedes is known as "Fruit Symphony" from the importers, Gold Mountain Coffee Growers, and that name couldn't be more right. But apparently Isabel likes to refer to it as "tutti frutti", and I like that. So we're going with that. 

This is a big fruit explosion. Everything you would expect from a wonderful natural process coffee, but turned up just a tad with the addition of carbonic maceration along the way. Carbonic maceration, a process also seen in winemaking, is a form of anaerobic fermentation where oxygen is displaced by carbon dioxide. Here it amps up the juicy tropical fruit notes. 

For fans of our previous Ethiopian Wush Wush 96-hour anaerobic and Colombia Nasa Wesx Yuppie releases.

I recently visited Gold Mountain at their office in Washington, DC, and this is only the first of multiple great coffees we'll be featuring from their lineup in the coming months.