Aromaniac Guatemala Tres Maria

Coffee from Guatemala

Due to the excellent climatic conditions, the taste of Guatemalan coffee is so interesting and balanced that it is often ranked by experts as one of the best coffees in the world. It is grown at different altitudes, offering a much wider and more interesting choice of beans. As early as 1750 the coffee tree was transported by the Jesuits to Guatemala, but only as an ornamental plant. Fifty years later, Guatemala suffered huge losses due to an attack by the saranchata on its vast indigo plantations, its main agricultural crop at the time, which was crowned by the decline of the European chemical industry's interest in indigo over the next fifty years. And so the Guatemalan government decided to use coffee as a new primary crop for export to Europe and in 1868, in support of this strategic move, distributed more than a million coffee seeds to local farmers. Guatemalan coffees are characterised by a sweet and balanced flavour with a pleasant acidity, which is complemented by wine notes from the Huehuetenango region.