Guatemala Patzún Finca Santa Anita

Santa Anita brews up convincing sweetness at a wide range of roasts, with fruited accents that gain momentum as the coffee cools. At City roast level, the dry grounds have a sweet honey-butter scent, accented by hints of pear, and almond. Hot water brings up a potent note of torched sugar, with some winey accent notes, grape skins, and fermented peach. At City+ roast level, the cups shows well-balanced sweet to bittering notes, like brown sugar, caramel and cocoa powder, cut through by moderate level of acidity that has a fruited aspect behind it. As the coffee cools, fruit flavors take shape as spiced apple cider, and pears stewed with brown sugar. Full City roasts are bittersweet, but retain a juicy mouthfeel, with a note of fleshy plum. This is my kind of espresso, too. That is to say, syrupy fruit notes show some prominence against the bittersweet backdrop. Ristretto shots showed a delicious mix of rich dark chocolates, cooked plum, with a flash of white grape.