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Bosque Lya, El Salvador

papaya · raspberry · toffee · tropical

Fruity Caramel and sweetFor espresso or filter

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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.

Long & Short Coffee describe this coffee as fruity, caramel and sweet. 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

Process

natural

Variety

Red Bourbon

Altitude

1400 m

Not stated

region, farm or estate, producer, 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

Altitude, lowest

“The farm named Bosque Lya sits pretty over 1400 masl close to the volcano of Santa Ana, which provides great conditions for farming coffee in optimal climates, altitude and using highly nutritious volcanic soils.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Variety

“This particular coffee is a Red Bourbon varietal that is common to the region, but also when grown at altitude creates a sweet and complex coffee.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Flavour families

“The Bosque Lya boasts tropical notes of papaya, raspberry and toffee on the tongue.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Country of origin

“We’ve chosen a coffee from a farm that previously came first in the Cup of Excellence awards, producing the best coffee in the whole of El Salvador in 2004.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Processing

“Naturally processed the coffee cherries are fermented in tanks for 13-15 hours before being dried on raised beds for 8-10 days.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Roasted for

“As such it is omni-roasted one way for both filter and espresso based drinks.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Tasting notes

“The Bosque Lya boasts tropical notes of papaya, raspberry and toffee on the tongue.” 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.