LA BENDICION, JESUS GARCIA, HONDURAS - FILTER COFFEE

La Bendición is a new addition to our selection, coming from the mountainous region of Comayagua, Honduras. We acquired only a 300 kg lot of this Catuai variety coffee from Jesus Garcia’s 2.7-hectare farm, located at 1,600 meters above sea level in the village of Buena Vista. The coffee is fully washed, offering a clean and balanced cup profile with bright fruitiness, sweetness, and a soft, lingering finish. In the cup you may find notes of yellow fruits such as peach and apricot, as well as dark sugar.

Behind this coffee is Jesus Garcia, a third-generation coffee producer who has been cultivating coffee on his La Bendición farm for 30 years. He lives there with his family and continues to grow coffee both as a livelihood and a passion. For him, producing coffee is a way to honor his family’s tradition while continually developing his craft.

Like many growers in the region, Jesus faces challenges in production: the high cost and occasional scarcity of resources, as well as the difficulty of finding international buyers willing to pay a fair price for quality coffee. In the past, he has had to sell his coffee locally at prices that barely covered his production costs, yet through perseverance he has been able to provide his family with a good quality of life and improve his farm’s production year after year. Jesus emphasizes that quality — not quantity — is always the most important factor. His goal is to keep exporting high-quality coffee and to give more people the opportunity to enjoy the best that Honduran coffee has to offer.

In 2025, Jesus joined the Sueños de Semilla project, which has opened new opportunities for him and provided support for improving his processing methods and expanding his exports. The project is run by the green coffee importer Semilla, through whom we were introduced to this coffee, and ultimately decided to purchase it, as we were truly impressed when we tasted it.

Processing on the farm is carried out with great care: ripe cherries are hand-picked daily, then floated to remove defects and fermented for 30 hours in tanks. After fermentation, the beans are dried on mesh beds under indirect sunlight for about 15 days, resulting in a clean, nuanced, and well-balanced cup.

Jesus sold his coffee to Semilla at a farmgate price of 18,700 Lempira per carga of parchment coffee, well above the regional 2025 average of 12,000 Lempira. The FOB price is 5.28 USD per pound — a level that reflects both the quality of the coffee and Jesus’s long-term dedication to improving his production.