Cup of Excellence returns to goodboybob for November with a stunning coffee from the 2024 Nicaragua competition. Finca Santa Cruz, established more than 30 years ago, is owned and managed by Sara Isabel Corrales Rivas and her family. Located near the Cerro Dantali El Diablo natural preserve, a volcanic plateau with some of Nicaragua’s highest biodiversity, Finca Santa Cruz has a history of producing top-quality organic coffees for Cup of Excellence. This lot is an exceptionally well-processed maracaturra hybrid and is one of the finest honey coffee we’ve tasted in years. 

“For me it is important to be able to find out what quality means in a coffee farm, sometimes we believe that quality in some people can be the flavor, the management, in Santa Cruz farm we work with a mixture of everything from the good management of the crop, from a good management of the fertilizer and we also worry about the good management of the soil and in this way the soil feeds the plant and the plant feeds the coffee. . . nature is wise and does not behave the same every year and this is something that is very difficult to evaluate, we are always looking for something new, but recognizing the fact of maintaining quality and being recognized is allowing us to continue creating and that is one of the biggest challenges and this is my second year participating in both occasions I have been among the 30 best in Nicaragua . . . through the care and selection of one of the coffee lots of the farm, my father, my brother and even my mother at the end of the day that is what coffee growing is all about, it is about being able to connect the family learning within the cultivation of coffee and this is the fourth generation.”
-Sara Isabel Corrales Rivas 

The Corrales family’s efforts give us an amazing aromatic coffee with notes of black cherry, nectarine, pipe tobacco, plum, molasses syrup, and a tangy malic acidity.

• Producer: Sara Isabel Corrales Rivas
• Farm: Finca Santa Cruz
• Region: Matagalpa, Nicaragua
• Variety: Maracaturra
  
• Processing: Honey
• Altitude: 1,450 meters