Product Story
he Sagastume family has been farming coffee for many decades headed by Don Pedro Sagastume. Pedro has divided his farms in multiple plots for his sons to take ownership and leadership in their own work. Nevertheless, this is a family effort, all the wet processing and drying happens centrally around the family home, with the sons and their families living nearby.
This Parainema comes from a plot on the ¨El Ocote¨ farm, managed by Yeltsin, the second of Pedro’s three sons. Parainema is a cultivar that has gained recent popularity in Honduras where it was developed in the El Paraiso region. This cultivar was specifically developed to combat nematoides which are present in the soil and can affect root systems of coffee plants, limiting the nutritional intake. At higher elevations this coffee also proved to have outstanding yield and cup quality. The profile is quite different from other varieties and is distinguished by a silky body and fresh herbal notes.
This Honey coffee is pulped as soon as the coffee arrives at the family wet mill 30 minutes from the coffee fields. No water is used in the depulping process to maintain all the mucilage on the seeds. The coffee is then dried with the mucilage attached on raised beds in the solar dryer. This process takes up to 20 days during which the coffees are constantly moved.