El Salvador

El Salvador Finca El Borbollón Red Bourbon - 500g

milk chocolate · stone fruit

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How it sits among coffee from El Salvador

How often roasters use each flavour family to describe coffee from El Salvador: 167 of 255 carry notes. The dashed outline is the whole catalogue. These are the roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement.

Coffee Compass describe this coffee as fruity, caramel and sweet, chocolate. The filled shape is how often roasters use each family across coffee from El Salvador; the rings on the rim are this coffee’s own.

Every family the roaster names is a common one for coffee from El Salvador, so this reads as a typical example rather than an outlier.

The roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement. We have not tasted this coffee. All El Salvador coffees

What the roaster says about where it came from

Country

El Salvador

Variety

Red Bourbon, Bourbon

Not stated

region, farm or estate, producer, process, altitude, harvest, lot, importer, price paid to the producer

We report what the roaster publishes and we have not checked any of it independently. A fact nobody publishes is not a fault of the coffee: almost no roaster in the UK states an importer or the price paid to the producer.

Where each fact came from

Acidity, described

“This El Borbollón has a crisp acidity with a big mouthfeel and a deep rich cup.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Variety

“Following in their father’s footsteps, both farms to this day are planted solely with red bourbon variety coffee trees, demonstrating the family’s commitment to quality even in the face of El Salvador’s recent struggles with coffee leaf rust, to which Bourbon trees are particularly susceptible.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Flavour families

There is milk chocolate notes with a slight stone fruit vibe, which holds beautifully… part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Country of origin

“The Alvarez family has been growing coffee in El Salvador for over 100 years and across four generations.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Cup score

“4 of these, including La Reforma, have won the COE Presidential Award for achieving scores in excess of 90 points.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Tasting notes

There is milk chocolate notes with a slight stone fruit vibe, which holds beautifully… part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Taken from the roaster’s own pages, and nothing here has been verified by us or by an independent body. What we store is a passage of page text cut around the fact, so one shown with an ellipsis is a passage we cannot see the start or the end of; only the fully quoted ones are complete sentences.