La Cumbre, Apaneca, El Salvador

About

Emilio has managed to further refine the results he seeks in the cup by isolating a plot at the highest point of his farm. We have fallen in love with the very fruity profile of this natural processed Red Bourbon

Emilio and natural process

A great lover of fully washed coffee, Emilio reserves a part of his harvest for natural coffee, bringing to it a lot of requirement and expertise.
He will be delighted by a very clean natural coffee when it allows the sensory characteristics of the variety and the terroir to shine through before those linked to the process.

The farm La Cumbre

Emilio has called it La Cumbre (“the summit”), quite simply because it is grown in the highest part of his farm. With an area of 10 hectares, it now specialises in single-variety microlots of varieties such as yellow and orange Bourbon, Pacamara, SL-34, SL-38 and Geisha.

Emilio Lopez 

Cuatro M is owned by Emilio Lopez, a producer passionate about his work and in permanent search of perfection, both at his farm and in the cup. He describes his way of working as non-traditional and likes to think outside the box. 

Cuatro M produces, processes and exports not only its own coffees, but also coffees from neighbouring farms. Emilio has managed Cuatro M since 2001. It is a company with a long history of coffee production. Emilio belongs to a sixth generation of coffee farmers. When he took over the management of the family farms, he wanted above all to create a new company, unique in El Salvador. In 2005, Emilio and his team set up the mill (beneficio) at the El Manzano farm.

Today he owns one of the most beautiful production facilities in Central America and can process his coffees using a variety of methods, always with great precision and the same objective: to achieve perfection. He lives by three key values, which are quality, consistency and innovation.