Origin Story
Guillermo Alvarez is the fourth-generation owner of Finca Malacara. It is one of the most venerable coffee estates in El Salvador, located in one of the most celebrated coffee regions in all of Central America. We accompanied him as he planted the seeds of this elegant Kenyan SL-28 cultivar to complement the flavors produced by the Bourbon plants that have graced the farm’s gentle slopes since 1888, and have had the honor of offering it every year since it came into production. This year marks a milestone — 10 years since we sourced the first lot of Malacara SL-28 — and it has never been better: our coffee team awarded this lot the highest scores of anything Malacara has sent us over the past decade.