El Diablo Natural l Nicaragua

Tasting Notes: Red Wine, Rose, Raisin

Country: Nicaragua

Region: Jinoteca

Co-Op / Mill: Jinotega, San Rafael del Norte, San Sebastian de Yali.

Process: Natural

Variety: Catimor

Roast Profile: Light-Medium

Despite its name, we find this coffee perfectly angelic! It’s not often we see a naturally processed, or “sun-dried,” coffee from Latin America, but alas we came across “El Diablo” and thought it was just too devilishly good to pass up. 

El Diablo is a high massif located between the cities of Matagal-pa and Jinotega. It’s a magical place, where birds and butterflies dance around the coffee trees that cling to impossibly steep mountainsides in the shade of the lush cloud forest.

The name of this coffee comes from the mountain range that forms part of the nature reserve Datanlí – El Diablo, in the Isabelia mountain range. Datanlí is an indigenous word that means “where water falls.” This region is one of the richest and most diverse ecosystems in Jinotega, a place with beautiful and impressive forests, where the water sources originate at the top of the mountains and flow all the way down to the farms of countless coffee growers below. The water that flows from this beautiful reserve helps these producers, combined with favorable climatic conditions and much hard work, with the production of their specialty coffees.

This is Provision’s first year offering this coffee, which we sourced through our partners at Caravela Coffee. We noted an juicy red wine, much like a Gamay, as well chocolate covered raisins. The florality of rose adds a beautiful delicate essence to this absolutely delicious and diabolical coffee!