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About this lot
One of the most popular coffees in our range, Café Carmona from Guatemala is an Arabica variety that captivates with its nutty-chocolate notes and perfect balance. This coffee comes from the Huehuetenango region — one of Guatemala’s three non-volcanic regions, and at the same time one of the highest-altitude coffee-growing areas in the country, making it exceptionally well suited to coffee cultivation. Warm air currents flowing in from the plains of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca, Mexico, mix here with the cool air descending from the Cuchumatanes mountains, creating a distinctive microclimate that protects against frost and allows coffee to be grown at elevations of up to 2,000 metres. Most farms in Guatemala are smallholdings scattered across a wide area. Given the country’s mountainous terrain and relatively weak infrastructure, large-scale farming is largely impossible. The result, however, i