Nicaragua Buenos Aires Peaberry

This peaberry microlot is from Finca Buenos Aires Estates in Dipilto growing region of Nueva Segovia. The altitude at Buenos Aires ranges from 1200 - 1500 meters above sea level, and most of what we buy from them is Caturra variety, along with smaller lots of Java and Maracaturra. This year they separated out some of the peaberries at their dry mill, and offered us 5 bags. While it didn't taste all that different than the Caturra lot we purchased (sold as "Finca Buenos Aires"), we're always a little fascinated by these little peaberry beans, and could't pass up the opportunity to add it to our shipment. If you've not seen peaberry coffee before, they're small round-shaped beans that's occur when one of two flat beans fails to germinate inside a coffee cherry. Every tree produces peaberries, and it's estimated that they make up around 5% of the harvest.