Noruega
Forest Berries, Chocolate Cake & Toffee
£13.00
- SCA Score 85.75
- Producer Finca Noruega
- Altitude 1400-1500
- Process Natural
- Varietal Red Bourbon
- Location Ahuachapán, El Salvador
Roaster's Notes
Roast colour: Extremely light.
Best brewed: Everything excluding espresso.
A natural El Salvador bursting with forest berries, rich chocolate cake, and sweet toffee. Decadent and fruity.
Story
Finca Noruega consists of 43 manzanas planted with a range of varieties from bourbon to geisha in the Ahuachapán mountain range in the west of El Salvador. This farm is part of the Los Naranjos group headed by Sigfredo Corado, a retired professor of agronomy from the National School of Agriculture. The farm is part of the Renacer Program which is a technical coffee field school for producers in the area to learn about better farm management practices. This program is funded by Raices (Roots) and supported by Catholic Relief Services in El Salvador.
The Technical field school is led by Sigfredo with 6 field technicians and helps small to medium producers in the area by training in best farm practises that are restorative for the land and soil, as well as beneficial for the yield and quality of the coffee. The field school is based here at Finca Noruega, where classes are held twice a month. They focus on a program developed for soil health: Right Source, Right Dose, Right Place, Right Moment.
As of 2021, they have 60 students who work on the test plots where they can implement the knowledge gained in class before applying it to their own farms.