El Durazno – Honduras

A special taste and story from Honduras – let's welcome El Durazno!

From a microlot grown by Francisco Velasquez from the El Durazno farm in Honduras comes our new coffee. Honduran specialty coffees are expected to be deep and complex, and that also describes El Durazno without a doubt!

This coffee here comes from a microlot. That just means that the coffee can be traced back to a single farm or small area. This of course means that there is only a small amount of this particular coffee.

Francisco Velasquez and the El Durazno farm are part of the Intibuca project, which consists of 60 coffee farmers from the Pozo Negro area of ​​Honduras. Here, coffee farmers have formed a group where they share knowledge and ideas with each other. They meet regularly and work together to improve coffee production and increase the quality of the individual farms. The taste that El Durazno brings to the coffee table reflects the result of this collaboration and the ambitions of the 60 coffee farmers.

Francisco Velasquez bought his farm in 2009 after 3 years of hard work and savings. Since then, he has invested in improvements to the farm so that he can continue to grow high-quality coffee without compromising the farm's environmental impact.

Notably, the farmers in the Intibuca project are reinvesting in the infrastructure – both wet mills, drying facilities and the overall production of the coffee. This creates better traceability and makes it possible to separate the individual microlots from each other, which is very unusual among coffee farms in Honduras.

We found this coffee sweet and tea-like with notes of vanilla, caramel and mandarin – with El Durazno you get a deep and complex cup.

• Country: Honduras
• Region: Pozo Negro, Masaguara, Intibuca
• Variety: Bourbon
• Altitude: 1700 m.
• Process: Washed
• Harvest: May 2025
• Tasting notes: Vanilla, caramel and mandarin
• Our payment above market price: 41%