Coffees from the Americas

The highlands of Guatemala produce
several of the world's finest and most distinctive coffees. The mountain basin surrounding the austerely beautiful
colonial city Guatemala Antigua produces the most distinguished of these highland coffees: Guatemala Antigua, a coffee that combines complex nuance
(smoke, spice, flowers, occasionally chocolate) with acidity ranging from gently bright to austerely powerful.
Fraijanes displays similar cup characteristics.

Other Guatemala coffees, perhaps because they are more exposed to wet ocean weather than the mountain-protected Antigua basin, tend to display slightly softer, often less powerful, but equally complexly nuanced profiles. These softer Guatemalas include Cobán, admired for its fullish body and gentle, deep, rounded profile, Huehuetenango from the Caribbean-facing slopes of the central mountain range, and San Marcos coffees from the Pacific-facing slopes.

Coffees from the basin surrounding Lake Atitlan in south central Guatemala typically offer the same complex nuance as Antiguas but are lighter in body and brighter in flavor.

Article © 2007, Coffee Review

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