Description

Indian Monsoon Malabar Blend

Origin:                  Bourbon and Paca varietals from Finca Altamira, El Salvador and Monsoon Malabar, India.

Process:               Fully Washed, Patio Dried

Cupping:             Smooth milk chocolate flavours with hint of vanilla. Medium acidity and body.

Awards:               3 Gold Stars in the Guild of Fine Foods Great Taste Awards 2010 and Gold in 2016 – the only Irish coffee to be awarded 3 stars in this category! The Great Taste Awards is the acknowledged benchmark for specialty food and drink. It has been described as the ‘Oscars’ of the food world and the ‘Epicurean equivalent to the Booker Prize’. All the judges are fine food retailers, chefs, restaurant critics, food writers and industry experts. All products go through a series of blind tasting by the panels of experts.

The Indian Monsoon Malabar Coffee Beans are ‘aged’ – they are left in open warehouses with the moist monsoon winds on them before they are sacked and put on ships for export. The beans are softer, light in colour and very clean to roast. The natural aging of these beans is unique to the Indian Monsoon Malabar coffees and is what imparts the soft milk chocolate sweetness.

Raw Indian Beans are Light in colour, like peanuts – not the usual green raw bean colour

 

The Paca and Bourbon varietals that Ponaire Blends with the Monsoon Malabar beans are grown in Finca Altamira – a family farm that Ponaire has visited and met the farmers and their families. The Barerra family let nothing on the farm go to wasted, the pruned branches are used for fuel for heating and cooking in the farmers homes. The two farm managers each have a house and land on the farm.  They are almost self-sufficient with regards to being able to grow their own food and raise their own chickens and a few cattle.  The children go to the local school which was funded by the Barrera family.  Ponaire sponsors the towns land’s two soccer teams by providing their jerseys.

 

Altamira Soccer Team with Ponaire Logo Jerseys

 

Ponaire Sponsors the two Local Soccer Team by providing their Jerseys