Finca Las Nubes

This is the second year we have had coffee from Finca Las Nubes back on the counter after a long hiatus and we’re delighted to have it available again. Fabio Solís Sanabria and Sonia Villeda de Solís raised their family at the farm and grew coffee together for more than forty years. Sadly, Sonia died this year after a difficult illness and Fabio now continues the farm on his own. He has reduced the area of production and is farming fourteen hectares - this is an easier size to manage for the next few years. Fabio continues to rely on his decades worth of experience in growing and processing coffee. He judges the completeness of fermentation (after the coffee has had its skin pulped and is in tanks soaking until the mucilage is removed) using a well-worn stick which is put into the tanks, if the stick leaves a gap when removed then the coffee is ready for washing, if not then it needs more time. This method could be considered rudimentary, but Fabio has so many years of quality production behind him that he can gauge fermentation as well as any pH meter! Alongside growing coffee, Fabio roasts his coffee and sells it locally. His coffee roaster is installed in the courtyard of his home in Esquipulas.