Coffee Description
This light and elegant coffee features a complex celebration of aromas and flavors. The cup launches with peach, orange blossom honey, and lemon cake joined by hints of grapefruit, apricot, and buttery caramel: overall sweet with a syrupy body. Eminently drinkable.
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Light
Variety
Pacas
Process
Washed
Elevation
1700 masl
Region
Santa Barbara
About Sebastián Benitez of Honduras
Finca La Piñona perches high above the town of El Cielito. Fog rising from the lake shrouds the mountain in cool cloud-like mist, and when it clears, the view goes on forever. In 1981, owner Sebastián Benitez began growing coffee here on .175 hectares. These days, he and his wife, and their 11 children do all the work on the farm (which has grown to 2 hectares) except during harvest when they also rely on a handful of seasonal employees. A Cup of Excellence winning producer, he has a small on-site mill and after processing, transports coffee more than an hour and a half by truck.to the nearest storage facility/exporter.
Ritual coffee has been sourcing from La Piñona since 2007. It was their first experience in direct trade with coffee farmers, one which introduced them to a myriad of farmers in the Santa Barbara coffee growing region. Of Sebastián they say, ”We revere him like a patron saint to our coffee program.”
Santa Barbara, Honduras
Ritual Coffee
When Ritual opened its doors on Valencia Street in 2005, they started what many call a coffee revolution in San Francisco. Their goal then—and their goal now—is to craft the very best cup of coffee available anywhere. Period. A pioneer in the recent shift of consciousness that has defined the modern coffee industry, they’ve learned a lot over the years. Still, the care and attention they lavish on their process is unchanged as they work to bring the very best out of the coffees they painstakingly choose, roast, and deliver fresh to coffee lovers worldwide.
With 5 retail stores in the bay area and a roasting facility in the SoMa district of San Francisco, Ritual takes pride in a growing number of direct trade relationships with coffee producers around the world, working with farmers to help them improve their quality with each passing season.
