El Salvador

Los Andes, Natural Bourbon, El Salvador

dark berry like aroma · milk chocolate · cacao nibs · sultanas

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What Drop Coffee says about this coffee

Flavour profile: A sweet and dark berry like aroma. The coffee has a medium intense sweetness and flavours of milk chocolate, cacao nibs and a hint of sultanas. The mouthfeel is smooth, with a medium body.

Colour: Smooth red Category: Curious Producers: Ernesto Menéndez Varietal: Bourbon Process: Natural Harvest: March 2025 Location: Apaneca-Ilamatepec Mountain Range, Santa Ana Elevation: 1720 meters above sea level Price transparency: The FOB price paid for this coffee was $4.50/Ib.

Ernesto Menéndez is a well-known name in the coffee industry and has won the coveted Cup of Excellence several times. We're honoured and proud to hold exclusivity on all the coffees he produces at Los Andes!

Nestled in the Apaneca-Ilamatepec mountain range, Los Andes farm is about 5 hectares, which yields a bit more than we typically buy, but we find it well worth committing to all of the coffee to maintain this valuable partnership. Ernesto holds a lot of knowledge and is always very communicative about how he takes care of the farm, and how he processes his coffees. Walking the farm together with him is like opening a true treasure, he holds so much knowledge and skills from the agriculture, proc…

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What the roaster says about where it came from

Country

El Salvador, Kenya

Farm or estate

Los Andes

Process

natural

Variety

Bourbon, SL28

Altitude

1720 m

Not stated

region, producer, harvest, lot, importer, price paid to the producer

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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: 244 of 578 carry notes. The dashed outline is the whole catalogue. These are the roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement.

Drop Coffee 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 Drop Coffee says about itself

Organic

“In 2018, we relocated our roastery to Rosersberg, just north of Stockholm, where we currently operate as a certified organic roaster.” their page (opens in a new tab)

These are claims the roaster makes about its business, not about this coffee, and we have not checked them against any register.

Where each fact came from

Altitude, lowest

“Colour: Smooth red Category: Curious Producers: Ernesto Menéndez Varietal: Bourbon Process: Natural Harvest: March 2025 Location: Apaneca-Ilamatepec Mountain Range, Santa Ana Elevation: 1720 meters above sea level Price transparency: The FOB price paid for this coffee was $4.50/Ib.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Body

“The mouthfeel is smooth, with a medium body.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Variety

Farm

“Nestled in the Apaneca-Ilamatepec mountain range, Los Andes farm is about 5 hectares, which yields a bit more than we typically buy, but we find it well worth committing to all of the coffee to maintain this valuable partnership.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Flavour families

“Flavour profile: A sweet and dark berry like aroma.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

FOB price per pound

Country of origin

“The taste profile of this Bourbon is one that we like the most in El Salvador, its mature sweetness matches the slightly bigger mouthfeel that is typical for the country.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Processing

Tasting notes

“Flavour profile: A sweet and dark berry like aroma.” 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.