TIM WENDELBOE - Finca el Vikingo | Honduras - Washed - Geisha

Tim Wendelboe Coffee Roasters is located in Oslo, Norway

From Tim Wendelboe

This Geisha cultivar produced by the owner of Finca Nacimiento, Jobneel Caceres Dios, has a subtle floral and fruity flavour profile.

A few years ago Jobneel Caceres Dios bought a small piece of land in an area not too far away from his first farm Finca Nacimiento that should be well known among our followers. He wanted to plant more coffee and different rare cultivars like Geisha. This year is the third year he was able to produce Geisha coffee from this new farm and the quality is, as expected,  better than his first two harvests. I find this harvest to be more floral and intense compared to the previous years.

Although it is not as expressive as the Geisha coffees we buy from the Caballero family further south in Honduras, this is still a delicious coffee with delicate and subtle floral and citric flavours.

This particular lot was also processed with a slightly different protocol than previous years.We asked Jobneel to let the coffee cherries rest over night after picking them and to de-pulp the cherries in the following morning after they were picked instead of the same afternoon. This means the coffee cherries will start a slight fermentation prior to being de-pulped and it also means the parchment coffee is dry-fermented in a tank for 24 hours before washing. This has added a more intense fruity character to the coffee without it being overly fermented in any ways. From experience the quality will normally improve when the trees grow older so we believe this coffee will become better and better in the years to come.