Las Cascadas Farm by Young Yong Lee (Washed, Caturra Garnica, Marsellesa, Typica and Bourbon)
Classic chocolate focused coffee with slightly fruity aftertaste. This coffee is the best match for a dessert or pastry. We use an Italian inspired roast to minimize acidity and maximize body without reaching bitter notes.
We offer this coffee in two roasts:
Medium Dark: Med-low acidity with primary chocolate and roasted nuts flavor notes. The body is rich with a slighlty dried stone fruit flavor.
Dark: Low Acidity with dark chocolate and malt notes. The body is full with a cooked sugar aftertaste. This is our most intense, italian style roast.
Classic chocolate focused coffee with slightly fruity aftertaste. This coffee is the best match for a dessert or pastry. We use an Italian inspired roast to minimize acidity and maximize body without reaching bitter notes.
We offer this coffee in two roasts:
Medium Dark: Med-low acidity with primary chocolate and roasted nuts flavor notes. The body is rich with a slighlty dried stone fruit flavor.
Dark: Low Acidity with dark chocolate and malt notes. The body is full with a cooked sugar aftertaste. This is our most intense, italian style roast.
Classic chocolate focused coffee with slightly fruity aftertaste. This coffee is the best match for a dessert or pastry. We use an Italian inspired roast to minimize acidity and maximize body without reaching bitter notes.
We offer this coffee in two roasts:
Medium Dark: Med-low acidity with primary chocolate and roasted nuts flavor notes. The body is rich with a slighlty dried stone fruit flavor.
Dark: Low Acidity with dark chocolate and malt notes. The body is full with a cooked sugar aftertaste. This is our most intense, italian style roast.
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Finca Cascadas, belongs to the entrepreneur Young Yong Lee. Situated in Motozintla, just 1 hour from Tapachula. For many year Tapachula was the epicenter of coffee trading in the state of Chiapas and in the whole country.
The farm owns an impressive dry mill in Comitán where coffee is carefully selected. Despite having top techonolgy in their processing they continue improving their farm infraestructure as well. They have recently built game rooms, dining areas as well as children day care center to enhance the living standards of the cherry pickers. Additionally, a greenhouse was recently added to the drying process, where African beds were installed, while the wet mill is undergoing expansion.
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Behind the owners of Finca Cascadas, there is a very interesting story. Young Yong Lee arrived in the United States after the Korean War, where he was able to amass capital out of nothing. Seeing Chiapas as the state with the most poverty in the country and education as the path to achieve growth. Mr. Lee used his own resources to open Ichthus preparatory school in Comitán, Chiapas. There, tuition is subsidized almost entirely for its students. Over time, the school grew to include primary and secondary levels, as well as exchanges with the United States and South Korea.
Currently, the student population is 300. With this growth, Mr. Lee decided to open two businesses with the purpose of covering the school's expenses: a tilapia export business and a coffee production and marketing business.
Within the coffee sector, Mr. Lee has managed to achieve 5th place in the 2018 Cup of Excellence with a Maragogype variety that grows in the highest area of Finca Chicharras. Currently, they are seeking to implement innovative processes to help them improve their positions in upcoming competitions
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The coffee we purchase is blend of Typica, Bourbon, Marsellesa, Garnica, and Caturra varieties. This is a combination of rust ressitant hybrids and classic now native arabica plants.
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The process involves washing with a short fermentation and thorough selection. This results in a coffee with very classic characteristics but with high and consistent quality.
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For this coffee we got inspired by an italian style where acidity is frown upon while body and sweetness is king. We roast slowly to get rid of the point citric acidity and give way to chocolate notes.