Guatemala’s northern highlands — Huehuetenango — are often praised as the source of some of the country’s most expressive coffees. Aromatically soft, complex, with that effortless light body and gentle butter-caramel character that defines the region.
Union Cantinil’s small JABIRU mill handles coffee from tiny farms within a 15-kilometre radius. What you taste here is the sum of modest farm budgets, high-altitude terraces, and shade-grown plots — plus a huge amount of careful, labour-intensive handwork. A coffee shaped by uncompromising dedication and by a landscape where every ray of sun and every mountain stream leaves its mark.