About this coffee

Finca Las Cascadas was the second farm for E-Cafe Chiapas, the wonderful export group and NGO who we worked with for this washed processed coffee. Finca Las Cascadas, named for the many waterfalls on the finca, was called by the previous owner, Finca Belgica, but when E-Cafe took it over they planned not only to improve the name, but the coffee quality as well. And when a group that took another Chiapas farm (Finca Las Chicharras) from unheard of, to a COE winner in the span of 3 years, you have to take them serious.

The forward thinking doesn’t stop at coffee processing with E-Cafe, they have social development projects going on for the people who work for them, and the people who lives in their surrounding areas. Their main operations outside of coffee are the Icathus School, a boarding school for underprivileged children, affordable financing offered to producers, and working with community and government leaders to improve infrastructure, education, and health. These operations are funded by the government and the sales of their coffee.

After handpicking ripe fruit, this lot is pulped and sent to fermentation tanks for up to 36 hours and then washed clean of mucilage. The coffee goes through destoning after drying to ensure that no foreign matter makes it through. After hulling, the green coffee is color sorted and graded by size to keep the lot uniform visually and in quality.

The washed coffees from Cascadas this year has a decadent body and rich mouthfeel. We loved its richness and are currently using it as our foundation for our Sojourner House Blend.