In the cup, this coffee is all kinds of elegant. The striking thing about this coffee and it’s tasting notes go hand in hand; let me explain:

Most coffees that you taste, even the “single-origin” ones, are some version of a blend. Coffee very rarely ripens all at the same time and even on the same farm there are valleys and ridges that cause development to stagger during the harvest season. Add to the mix that a lot of farms don’t differentiate between the several different varieties they have at their farm and you can see why this coffee starts to be even MORE special than its flavor notes. The fact that Arnulfo has the ability to not only tell you the varieties and cultivars that exist on his farm, but also harvest them, process them, and keep track of them to create an intentional blend starts to take you into a territory where Dom Leguizamo is acting more like a wine maker than a traditional coffee producer.  

I wish I was adept enough to tell you which of these flavor notes corresponds to each varietal but what I can tell you is that this cup is all kinds of comfort and elegance combined. A lovely milk chocolate with raw cacao makes up the front while a very piquant passionfruit opens the middle that then dissolves into a pleasantly sweet yellow delicious apple in the finish. It’s a perfect mirror to the man himself who unassumingly will shake your hand and greet you with a smile-but look deeper and you’ll see the glint of a trophy in the background.