El Salvador Ariz Family Gesha Honey

About this coffee

Roast and Ship on: Wednesday, November 18th *All products ordered with this coffee will be shipped on Wednesday, November 18th.* Flavors of apricot jam, orange creamsicle, and caramelized honey This coffee comes from our longtime partners and dear friends, the Ariz Family, whose work has helped shape our relationship with El Salvador for more than a decade. Ricardo Ariz oversees farming across the family’s three small farms, including El Aguila, Los Charras, and El Amel. His son Marco manages processing at El Amel, home to the family’s restored mill, Fenix, a once-forgotten site revived into a hub for innovation and quality. El Salvador remains a rare stronghold for heirloom coffee varieties such as Bourbon, Pacas, and Pacamara, preserved through decades of slower industrial change. The Ariz Family builds on this legacy while pushing boundaries through meticulous processing. Marco, an Expert Q Processor, applies advanced fermentation techniques to elevate each micro lot. Gesha is the highest-valued coffee varietal in the world and comes from the town of Gesha in Ethiopia. In the early 2000s, it was rediscovered in Panama where it was planted as a test, then quickly grew in fame throughout the coffee world because of its beautiful floral qualities and candy-like sweetness. It has since grown to dominate coffee tasting competitions around the world. For this extremely limited offering, we experimented with the honey process method to remove the coffee cherry fruit from the seed (coffee bean). The honey process pulps the cherry, but skips the normal fermentation process, allowing for the sticky sugar fruit to linger a little longer.

Coffee details reported by Olympia Coffee Roasting.