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Nueva Montaña

Nueva Montaña

This natural Catuai by Antonio Gonzalez showcases ripe blueberry and sweet dark chocolate. 

Regular price Kr. 159,00 DKK
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About

Coffee Expression Fresh blueberry notes sit atop rich brown sugar and sweet dark chocolate in the cup.

Producer Antonio Gonzalez has a focus on processing on his family’s farm. This lot of Catuai is shaped by its careful processing.

Whole Bean Coffee / Both for filter and espresso

Technical Data

Producer Antonio Gonzalez

Region Fraijanes

Altitude 1800 masl

Varietal Catuai

Process Natural

Harvest January 2025

Brewing Advice

Water is one of the most critical components of an excellent coffee experience. We recommend using mineral water of a soft Total Dissolved Solids count, ideally below 150 ppm. 

Rested coffee During the resting process, harsh and astringent flavors, which can even be perceived as a ‘roast’ character, soften out, allowing a clearer and brighter expression of the coffee’s character to shine.  

We recommend resting our coffees for at least 10 days after the roast date, and we often find excellent results, especially for particularly dense coffees, beyond 6 weeks.

Brewing Our straightforward approach to coffee carries over into brewing. We recommend our roasted coffee for all brew methods, regardless of whether it is immersion, percolation or espresso. We believe that there is one correct way to roast a single coffee, roasting lightly, in such a way as to release its innate qualities and showcase its quality. Learn more about different brewing techniques and specific brew guides here.

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Nueva Montaña

Antonio Gonzalez’ farm in the Fraijanes region is a returning favourite, often standing out on the cupping table during our Guatemalan buying. Fraijanes is much further south than Huehuetenango, where many of the Guatemalan lots we buy are grown. The region lies much closer to the Guatemalan capital Guatemala City, so has felt the effects of urbanisation, with higher costs of production and rising land values leading to some difficulty in maintaining a profitable coffee farm. 

Antonio’s farm, La Nueva Montaña, is a great example of the work that’s possible in the region, leading a move towards higher quality and differentiation in order to maintain his family business.

Together with his wife Eby Samayoa, Antonio has worked particularly hard on improving processing; intentionally creating expressions in the cup through careful use of fermentation. For the future, they hope to improve their agronomic practices to match this work, but these changes take time, gradually honing a new approach and allowing plants to adjust over several harvest seasons. For now, they work to minimise environmental contamination, and share their experience with surrounding farmers, giving tips on removing reliance on chemical inputs, making sure they too can have a successful and profitable business.

Natural Catuai

This particular lot is of the Catuai varietal, a dwarf mutation of the popular Caturra. The experience of creating high end lots, like the Maracaturra we purchased previously, has trickled down, improving Antonio’s wider work with less exotic varietals. This lot is a great example, pre-fermented in sealed plastic bags overnight for 14 hours, ready to be laid out on raised beds to dry the next day. The fermentation of this lot holds onto a juicy profile, with notes of ripe blueberry, finishing with rich brown sugar and dark chocolate.

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