Guatemala Maria Escobar

We met Maria Escobar during the 2019 Best of Huehuetenango competition in Guatemala.  Her coffee stood out for its remarkable and distinctively classic Huehue flavor profile of milk chocolate and blackberry. Maria’s coffee took 5th place out of more than 100 producers submissions. Her farm is small, less than a hectare, so winning 5th place was very remarkable & well deserved. 

Her coffee was a favorite of ours so we decided to continue a partnership with Maria every year, purchasing all of her coffee exclusively with a quality price premium over the Fair Trade value. Traceability is important to us and we think her coffee is too good not to be recognized. After an evening of conversation at the award ceremony (translated from English to Spanish to her indigenous language), the beginnings of a long term, sustainable partnership was formed. Atlas Coffee Importers has helped us facilitate this partnership, and we’re hoping to contribute to Maria’s long term success in producing outstanding specialty coffee. 

A perennial favorite of our staff and customers. We enjoy it for the layered flavors, and its tendency to be complex AND easily drinkable. This year's lot has the silkiness, vanilla, and milk chocolate backbone we love from Maria's coffee, with loads of fruit and florality in the forefront.

We taste so many delicious notes in this coffee; strawberry, cantaloupe, mandarin, watermelon, apple blossom, blackberry, silky, vanilla, milk chocolate, praline to name a few.