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Tenerife
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A delightful cup full of rich dark chocolate and sweet fruit, with hints of mandarin and a slightly smoky, delicate finish.
Country: Canary Islands, Spain
Region: Tenerife
Estate: Sanssouci
Varietal: Arabica Typica
Processing Method: Washed
Drying Method: Sun-dried
Elevation: 375 masl (equivalent to 1000 in the tropics)
Certification: Organic
Roast: Medium
Based on the island of Tenerife, the Finca Sanssouci farm was founded in 2002 and is owned and managed by husband and wife Alexandra and Peter – the former a retired professor of Botany (plant physiology and ecology) from the University of Munich, who’s able to utilise his theoretical knowledge with practical agriculture to produce coffees of outstanding quality. Because of the lack of pests on the island, this coffee is naturally organic – the management of the plants is restricted to irrigation, organic fertilisation, and pruning.
Coffee was first introduced to the Canary Islands back in 1788 when the first coffee trees arrived in the ‘La Orotava Acclimatization Garden’ in Tenerife. The garden was built by King Carlos III of Spain to take advantage of the Canary Islands’ warm climate to grow exotic plants and seeds from America and Asia.
Today, coffee is still produced in extremely small amounts on the islands of Tenerife, La Palma, El Hierro, and Gran Canaria by family run estates. Very little coffee leaves the islands, with most of it consumed by the producing families or sold to local roasters and coffee shops.
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