Guatemala | Luis Pedro Zelaya | Bella Vista
In the last couple years coffees from Guatemala have been a bit overshadowed by other origins, but let's be honest: nothing beats a smooth Guatemalan washed coffee! The Bella Vista will entice you with intense notes of chocolate, hazelnut, biscuit and red grape, paired with a medium to high vibrant acidity and a medium round body. The kind of coffee you could enjoy every day, all day!
We roast this coffee light and quick, perfect for tasty pourovers (but you can brew it any way you like it).
Perfect for: Filter
Also works lovely as: Espresso, Cold brew, French Press, Aeropress, Turkish coffee
Taste notes: Chocolate, hazelnut, red grape, biscuits
Variety: Caturra, Bourbon
Altitude: 1.500m – 1.800m
Process: Washed
Quality score: 86
Light roast
100% Arabica Coffee
Net weight: 250g/500g
Bella Vista is a wet/dry mill and export company led by Luis Pedro Zelaya Zamora (LPZZ), a fourth-generation coffee producer and trained agronomist.
For many years, the Zelaya family’s business focus was on commercial coffee production and export. This changed in 2000 when LPZZ began developing and changing Bella Vista’s focus into specialty coffee and microlots, with the support of some early clients.
Over time Bella Vista has been able to successfully transition into a business solely focusing on specialty coffee. For the Zelaya family, their coffee endeavours are not only about business: their aim is always to provide a good base for the prosperity of future generations of their family and community. With this in mind, the Bella Vista team is constantly looking for ways to provide jobs to as many families in their surrounding communities as possible, along with supplying the best quality coffee they can.
In addition to processing, milling and exporting coffee, the Bella Vista team, who have considerable training in modern agronomy education, manage many of the fincas from which they buy coffee. In more recent seasons, Bella Vista have expanded further outside their Antigua home to work with smallholder families who otherwise find it challenging to process coffee and find good markets for their lots.
One such program is called Hunapu (‘mountain flower’ in the Indigenous K’iche language), a blend of coffee made up of different small producers who own small farms around Antigua (one to four hectares in size), between the altitudes of 1500 to 1800 meters above sea level. Hunapu coffee is sorted into day lots. It is programs such as these that keep us coming back to Bella Vista year-after-year.
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