Holiday Bundle - x2 Coffees & Chocolate!

This holiday bundle comes with two 300g Coffees (Guatemala Irma Pacheco & Winter in America), and the limited addition Sirene Chocolate- Winter Warmer -

all for just $45. 

 

IRMA PACHECO (Single Origin Coffee)

Country: Guatemala

Farmer: Irma Pacheco

Mill:

Region: Sansupo, Mataquescuintla

Varietal: Pache San Ramón

Elevation: 1700 m

Process: washed

Tasting Notes: fig newton, kouign amann, dates

Irma Pacheco Reyes tends a small farm she inherited from her father, just a short drive from her family's residence at Finca Palo de Quina. She is a busy woman - mother to four boys, a driving spirit and member of the resistance to the mine at Escobal and proudly Xinka (Her full bio is in our website's  Producers section). This year's coffee, is a fully washed  lot of Paché San Ramón - showing figs, dates, buttery pastry and pistachio. Increasingly, at harvest time, this region like so many others, has seen a dramatic fall in returning labourers as many are leaving their homes in the  coffeelands for the cities or traveling overland to attempt passing into the US. As labour is scarce, many producers aren't able to harvest their expected volume, fruit is not being picked in time - reduced volume obviously affects anticipated income. The precarity is clear, as less is reinvested back into farm maintenance, plant and soil health, needed fertilization and infrastructure. This downward cycle affects subsequent harvest potential. We are adding a surplus margin of $2 per 300g on sales of Irma's coffee to help offset the added costs of production and attempted repair. 

WINTER IN AMERICA (Holiday Blend)

Country: Nicaragua & Guatemala

Farmer: Luís Joaquín Lovo / Irma Pacheco

Mill/Washing Station: Las Segovias / Keller's

Region: Dipilto & Mataquescuintla

Varietals: Caturra, Pache San Ramón

Elevation: 1500-1800 m

Process: washed

Tasting Notes: cocoa, dates

The name comes from Gil Scott Heron's song and album of the same name. The song isn't celebratory: "People know that something's wrong..."
But it's the holidays and you can give coffee however you like.

This year's blend is a mix of washed coffees from Luis Joaquin Lovo in Nicaragua and Irma Pacheco of Mataquescuintla. Big milk chocolate and more subtle dried fruit and almonds.

WINTER WARMER- (Sirene Chocolate)

Our friends at Sirene make amazing chocolate and we're happy to share it with you. They carefully source cocoa beans from cocoa farms growing and  craft each delicious bean to its full chocolate-y potential in their custom chocolate workshop here in Victoria, BC. 

Winter Warmer:You can almost feel the warm Tanzanian sun caress your face as you savour this bar. This is a dark milk made with Kokoa Kamili's delicious cocoa beans and a little nutmeg and clove added to help you warm up during the winter cool.

70g bar

Ingredients: organic cocoa beans, organic cane sugar, organic cocoa butter, whole milk, nutmeg, clove

Made in a nut free facility, soy free, gluten free.