Los Pirineos Pacamara Espresso – Christmas Edition

This is by far the best Pacamara coffee I have tasted from Los Pirineos in many years. In fact I believe it is one of the best coffees I tasted in 2023. With a complex winey ripe red fruit flavour, medium intense acidity and rich mouthfeel, it is a coffee that keeps on giving while you are drinking it. There is a reason why Los Pirineos has won so many awards for their Pacamara coffees and this is a prime example of how good these coffees can be.

Often times you hear that Pacamara coffees can be a bit herbal or oniony in flavour, and I don’t disagree, but this coffee has none of those off-flavours. There are so many versions of Pacamara being planted as the cultivar is not uniform, probably because it was released before it was stabilised as a new hybrid cultivar. Maybe that is why there are so many different flavour profiles of this cultivar as well. Still, the Pacamara coffees from Los Pirineos always taste good and rarely have any of those herbaceous flavours. I believe this is because Los Pirineos was in fact one of the farms involved in the development of the cultivar, and today Diego produces high quality certified Pacamara seeds that he also sells to other farmers. That means he is able to produce a very stable type of Pacamara trees.

Fortunately this lot was big enough to be able to offer it as one of our selected “Christmas Edition” coffees this year. I don’t really have any particular criteria for selecting Christmas edition coffees other than that the coffee itself needs to be among the best we have in stock. A perfect coffee for the holidays and also a perfect gift to someone who loves coffee.