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VALLE DE ORO WASHED, EL SALVADOR
wallnut, chocolate,refined acidity
Region:San Jose de La Majada Apaneca Ilamatepec
Farm: Villa de Oro
Altitude: 1050m
Variety:Marsellesa
Process: Washed
Harvest: 2023/24
Supplier: Belco
Espresso/Brew
PRODUCT CODE : valledeoro1
250 gr Whole bean :
₺417.00
1kg whole bean :
₺1590.00
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San Jose de La Majada Apaneca Ilamatepec
Valle de Oro
Marsellesa
Washed
1050m
2023/24
History
San Jose de La Majada Apaneca Ilamatepec
Valle de Oro
Marsellesa
Washed
1050m
2023/24
Notes Of A Roaster From The Underground: wallnut, chocolate,refined acidity
Omni-roast (Espresso/Brew)
VALLE DE ORO WASHED, EL SALVADOR
Valle de Oro is one of MAV Coffee's 3 farms. Here, nothing is left to chance, starting with the variety produced on the farm: Marsellesa.
It was selected by Lean Coffee Management, which manages MAV's agricultural project, for its high resistance to rust, its robustness against the wind and rain that affect the region with increasing frequency, and its ability to produce a lot at medium altitudes.
On the subject of inputs, the farm is pesticide-free. The coffee trees are protected by the grasses that grow naturally at their feet. These grasses feed the insects that would otherwise feed on the coffee leaves. This way, MAV also avoids using insecticides.
To continue to preserve its coffee trees and regenerate the farm each year, Valle de Oro is managed as follows: the coffee trees are planted in rows, and each row is pruned differently from one year to the next:
Row 1 generates 65% of the harvest ;
Row 2 is in the recovery phase and generates 25% of the harvest. It will take the place of row 1 next year ; Row n°3 is pruned to generate 10% of the harvest, and will take the place of n°2
next year.
History
Known as “the land of volcanoes,” El Salvador is the smallest Central American country (roughly the same size as New Jersey), but its reputation among specialty-coffee-growing regions has grown larger-than-life, especially since the early 2000s. While coffee was planted and cultivated here mostly for domestic consumption starting in the mid-1700s, it became a stable and significant crop over the next 100 years, notably increasing in national importance during the late 1800s, when the country’s indigo exports were threatened by the development and widespread marketability of synthetic dyes.
As coffee grew in economic importance, different government programs designed to increase production through land, tax, and military-exemption incentives created a small but strong network of wealthy landowners who gained control over the coffee market, in addition to the individual smallholders who were growing coffee as part of their subsistence farming and would sell their cherry to the larger estates or to mills.
By the late 1970s coffee exports accounted for 50 percent of the GDP, but socioeconomic and political unrest hurled the country into civil war for more than a decade, and in the 1980s various land-redistribution projects and agrarian reform disjointed the coffee industry and caused the market to decline. Lacking the resources to continue farming, producers abandoned their coffee farms, and many were left overgrown and unharvested for years until a peace agreement was reached in the 1990s.
It is often said that the Cup of Excellence competition, which came to El Salvador in 2003, was the beginning of the new “wave” of interest in Salvadoran coffee, shining the first light on some of the special varieties the small country grows.
