Los Ancestros - Washed - Guatemala (Espresso Roast)

Huehuetenango is one of Guatemala’s most important specialty coffee regions, located in the far western highlands near the Mexican border. Its coffees are grown at very high elevations—often 1,500–2,000 metres—on steep mountain slopes in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes. This altitude, combined with a relatively dry, windy microclimate, produces dense, slow-ripening coffee cherries that are known for bright acidity, floral aromatics, and fruit-forward complexity, often with chocolate and citrus undertones. 

Los Ancestros grows in the mountains surrounding the Mayan site of Zaculeu in Huehuetenango, once the capital of the Mam Kingdom. Known as the “place of the elders,” the region reflects a rich Indigenous heritage. Grown on landholdings of 0.5 to 5 hectares, this coffee is hand picked when fully ripe off the coffee trees and pulped the same day. The coffee is then fermented without water for 18-36 hours and washed after fermentation. This unique washed process gives this coffee a fruit-forward flavour profile, with notes of strawberry and ripe apricot standing out, and a sweet marzipan finish gives it the perfect balance.