Ternura - Grandma's Specialty, Special Edition from Dad's small finca

Ternura is a Café de Palo, and it means: "Tenderness." It evokes my grandma's Tenderness of heart, for this is, in fact, my grandma's coffee, and it reflects the love and hard work that goes into producing it; it reflects the love and sacrifice of my grandma's life.

"Coffee is my aliment," she says. Her coffee is splendid and delicate like her, boiled at 5am every morning in her decades-old metal coffee pot. She likes her little sip of coffee very sweet and light. This coffee is a celebration of my Abuela’s life and of the work of all those agricultores involved in the production of this signature coffee bean.

This coffee is grown in Denominacion de Origen: Cordillera Cacahuatique, El Salvador, in a cool tropical climate at an altitude of more than 2,500 fasl, mountain range terrain, fertile volcanic soil rich in minerals such as iron, carbon, and calcium, diverse and dense vegetation rich in oaks and pines, and abundant shade appropriate for coffee production. We grow various genetic varieties, harvest our coffees at optimum ripe stage, and manually process the beans with great care and artistry. The beans are left to ferment 1-2 days in the bags, and then spread out in the mornings and then recollected, piled, and covered at night to protect the coffee cherries from the mist of dawn.