Our second "women's coffee project" offering (along with Sidamo Amaro Gayo) is the El Salvador Santa Teresa, brought to light with our partners Elan Organic of San Diego, CA. The producers, the Batres Estate (Marco Antonio & Teresa Batres, owners) produces award-winning, high-altitude coffees with some of the most sustainable practice on the planet. The Santa Teresa Wet Mill is the most environmentally friendly coffee mill in the world: it is the only coffee processing facility that uses Geothermal Energy from mineral hot Water to pre-dry the beans. Santa Teresa Mill was the winner of the 2003 National Environmental Award and the 2006 Central American Environmental Innovation Award , the mill has been Certified Organic since 2003 by Mayacert SA / BCS-Oko Nuremberg and it is Certified RainForest Alliance since 2005.


This stewardship is reflected in the clean, floral, chocolatey richness of the cup. It is 100% Bourbon (they also grow an award-winning Pacamara varietal at Santa Teresa), SHB (strictly hard bean), and grown at 3600 ft.in the lush mountains. In the Batres family since 1860, Santa Teresa is located in Ahuachapán, the "coffee capital of El Salvador", only 2 ½ hours driving from Antigua Guatemala and 1 ½ hours from San Salvador. Cup of Excellence has recognized many Santa Teresa coffees over the years with very high scores and many placements among the top ten from El salvador.