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Precision Specialty Coffee Farming
Kapel Farms
WHAT WE DO!
Kapel Farms has been producing Specialty Coffee for the past decade in Guatemala and El Salvador. Our farms are strategically positioned in key coffee producing regions in both countries. In Guatemala Finca Los Caballitos is located in the northern area of the Ixil Triangle in the Department of Quiche. Finca Santa Paula is located in the Cobán Region close to the village of Pocolá in the Department of Alta Verapaz. In El Salvador both Finca Patagonia and Los Naranjitos are situated in the are of Concepción de Ataco in Auachapan. All these regions have their own micro climates that insure best of class results of the varieties grown; Bourbon, Caturra and Pacas. Finca Los Caballitos has recently started a Geisha project in the highest areas of the farm at 1,600 meters (5,280 feet).
Finca Los Caballitos
Chajul, Quiche, Guatemala
15°39’52”N 91°08’34”W
1,500 meters (5,000 feet)
Aromas: Floral, Fruits, Caramlized Sugars, Dark Chocolate
Taste: Sweet Fruits, Lemon, Chocalte
Finca Santa Paula
Coban, Alta Verapz, Guatemala
15°32’40”N 90°13’48”W 1,400 meters (4,4620 feet)
Notes:
Dark Chocolate, Maple Syrup, Hazelnut, Sweet Stone Fruit (Plum)
Finca Patagonia
Concepción de Ataco, El Salvador
13°50’23"N 89°52’07"W
1,350 meter (4,450feet)
Notes:
Toasted Hazel Nuts, Milk Chocolate,
Soft Orange Finish
Finca Los Naranjitos
Concepción de Ataco, El Salvador
13°50’44"N 89°51’58"W
1,400 meters (4,620 feet)
Notes:
Toasted Hazel Nuts, Milk Chocolate,
Soft Orange Finish
The Full Story
Following the family tradition of four generations of coffee farming Oscar and Ana Cristina Schaps began their own farming operation in 2006. Through these last 15 years they put together a portfolio of 4 farms:
Finca Los Caballitos and Finca Santa Paula both in Guatemala and in 2013 acquiring Oscar's great grandmother's farm in El Salvador, Finca Patagonia and later Finca Los Naranjitos up the road.
