Movimiento BIO

Description

Discover our signature Central American blend! A blend of several cooperatives, which will follow one another throughout the year within Movimiento. What do they have in common? 100% Arabica beans from sustainably-managed coffee fields, for a profile with lovely acidity. 

Our Movimiento blend, an ode to movement

Movimiento, movement, motion. This blend of coffees from Central American farms reflects its region: it's on the move, between two states. Central America lies between 2 oceans (Pacific and Atlantic) and 2 sub-continents (South and North America).

We thought of it as a blend whose composition changes with the seasons, to offer several facets of Central American coffees. Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala... The blend will change throughout the year, but will always be consistent on the palate, of course!

• Origin: Central America
• Varieties: 100% Arabica blend
• Current composition:
  • Grown in : Marcala, La Paz (Honduras)
  • Producer: Alegria / COMSA
  • Varieties: Bourbon rouge, H1, Icatu, Parainema
• Harvested: December to March
• Process: washed
• Altitude: 900 - 1800 m

The project of the moment

The first coffee featured in our Movimiento blend comes from the COMSA cooperative, via the Alégria project: the latter is made up exclusively of women coffee growers, to give them greater prominence (they represent only 1/4 of the cooperative's producers).

In addition to this commitment to women's autonomy, the Alégria project is committed to a coffee culture of sustainable development, in particular to mitigating the environmental impact on the Montecillos mountain range. Women growers also benefit from ongoing training in regenerative and organic agriculture.

On average, each hectare includes between 76 and 112 forest and fruit trees per farm, in contrast to intensive monoculture. Nearly twenty species are grown alongside the coffee trees: liquidambar, pine, guaniguil, lemon, guava, cedar, laurel, tatascán...

About Honduran coffee

Honduras has become a major player in the world of coffee, ranking as the top coffee producer in Central America since 2011. Its production accounts for around 3% of the world total. Honduran coffees offer a diversity of tastes, ranging from sweet and low-acid with gourmet notes to very acidic with floral aromas.

The department of La Paz, created on May 28, 1869, is located in the southwest of Honduras, on the border with El Salvador, at an altitude of between 1,000 and 1,600 meters. It was formerly part of Comayagua department, the cradle of Honduran coffee production. The local economy is based mainly on agriculture, livestock and trade, with important crops of coffee, corn, henequen, sugarcane and fruit.

Marcala, the municipality from which our Movimiento originates, established the first “protected designation of origin” for coffee, due to its unique agro-ecological and cultural characteristics.