El Salvador — Diego Baraona Los Pirineos Pink Bourbon (Washed)

Tastes Like — 🫐 Blackberry • 🍑 Plum

DETAILS

• Producer: Diego Baraona
• Farm: Los Pirineos
• Region: Tecapa-Chinameca, Usulután, El Salvador
• Varietal: Pink Bourbon
• Process: Washed
• Altitude: 1,100–1,600 MASL
• Size: 250g
  

INTRO

From Diego Baraona's Los Pirineos on the slopes of the Tecapa volcano — a washed Pink Bourbon from one of El Salvador's most storied and decorated farms. Clean, fruit-forward, and quietly expressive. In the cup: blackberry and plum.

THE PRODUCER

Los Pirineos sits atop the Tecapa volcano in Chinameca, Usulután — a 150-hectare farm at 1,100–1,600 MASL where Diego Baraona has planted over 80 different coffee cultivars under the partial shade of native trees. Diego is a fifth-generation coffee farmer who took over the family legacy in 2020 after his father Gilberto's sudden passing, and has continued to build on a reputation for exceptional and award-winning coffees. All coffees at Los Pirineos are grown, processed, milled, packed, and exported entirely in-house.

Pink Bourbon is a variety grown primarily in Colombia and increasingly in Central America, genetically identified as Ethiopian Landrace and belonging to the Core Ethiopia group alongside Gesha, Chiroso, Sidra, and Aji. Prized for its vivid fruit character and distinctive bright acidity, it finds compelling conditions on the volcanic slopes of Los Pirineos — where Diego's meticulous washed processing allows its inherent dark fruit and plum complexity to express themselves with full clarity.

THE PROCESS

The Washed process at Los Pirineos involves:

🍒 Hand-picking — Pink Bourbon cherries selectively picked by hand, with unripe and damaged cherries removed before processing 🔧 Depulping — Cherries depulped before fermentation 🧪 Overnight dry fermentation — Beans dry-fermented overnight 💧 Washing — Mucilage thoroughly washed from the parchment the following morning 🌑 Shade-dried raised beds — Dried slowly on raised beds covered with shade nets, raked throughout the day for even drying and covered at night to prevent condensation

The shade-dried raised-bed drying is the defining step — by covering the beds with shade nets, Diego slows the drying process significantly, producing the clean, well-structured cup quality and extended shelf life that Los Pirineos coffees are celebrated for.

THE CUP

A clean and fruit-forward washed Pink Bourbon from one of El Salvador's most decorated farms — blackberry depth and plum sweetness in a well-structured, elegantly expressive cup that demonstrates the breadth of what Diego Baraona continues to achieve at Los Pirineos.

Flavour Notes

🫐 Blackberry 🍑 Plum