Product Details

Finca Santa Maria

Cup profile and tasting notes

Stone fruit, bakers milk chocolate with creamy mouthfeel and orange acidity.

Coffee Santa Maria
Farm Finca Santa Maria
Variety Bourbon
Process Washed
Altitude 1250 - 1480 masl
Owner Victor Robelo
City/Town Matagalpa
Region Jinotega
Country Nicaragua
Certification Grown with natural soil conditioners / RFA

Reviews

Average rating

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emmanuel
Surprisingly nice coffee. Strong chocolatey taste. Definitely becoming one of my regulars.
Keith
Very pleasantly surprised, full of stone fruit flavour, as described, though I also got some hint of dates. Will definitely order this again.
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Delivery

Delivery

Our Delivery Policy

Where do we deliver?

We would deliver to Mars if we could – to reach the whole of the universe with good coffee, but it is not that simple – so for now we deliver to:

UK: Channel Islands, Isle of Man, British Forces Post Office.

Europe: Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.

How long will it take?

We do not work at weekends so the term working day means Monday to Friday. If you place an order on the weekend it will not be sent out until Monday.

All orders placed before 13:00hrs 'normally' go out the same day. We do not guarantee orders go out the same day as ordered.

Royal Mail - You can order up to 2kg (7 x 250g bags) using Royal Mail first or second class - orders over 2kg will be sent using Interlink Next Day

UK Mail Next Day  - using this service you can order up to 10kg (38 x 250g bags) will ensure your order gets to you the next working day once the order is despatched from the roastery.

If you use this service you maybe required to sign for the delivery unless you elect to take responsibility for loss if left in a safe place. You will receive an email update from UKMail with a one hour delivery window and using the consignment number you track your order.

How do we keep you updated as to the status of your order.

Once you have placed your order you will receive 2 status updates - they will be:
Order confirmation – this means we have received your order and the coffee is yet to be roasted.
Shipped confirmation – this means your order has left our roastery by your chosen method.

Do we meet our delivery deadlines?

We try our best to meet the delivery deadline quoted, but on the odd occasion a parcel can be delayed due to reasons that are out of our control.

Why don't we offer free postage?

Nothing is free in life. We know you all love free postage and sometimes we do offer it as part of a promotion, but it is our policy to charge for postage. We have considered offering free postage but the costs would have to be absorbed elsewhere by you the customer. We don’t hide our postage costs.

Missing, Damaged or Incorrect Orders

We try very hard to ensure you receive your order in pristine condition. If you do not receive all your products or in the unlikely event that a product arrives damaged, please contact us via the email address within the 'contact us' section of the website.

Please note: Royal Mail does not class an international shipment as lost or missing for 28 working days unfortunately we can not take any action until this time has passed.  During that time we recommend that you ask your local sorting office / post office if they've tried to deliver (even if they haven't left a card) and ask your neighbours if your order has been left with them.  You should also check that the delivery address you gave us is correct, this can be found on your shipping confirmation email.  If your delivery still hasn't arrived after 14 working days and you have performed the above steps then please email us.

Change of Mind, Address and Cancellations

You can cancel your purchase at any time either before or up to 7 working days* following the day you receive the goods by emailing us at the address shown in the 'contact us' section of the website.

Your product must be complete and in 'as new' condition e.g. if you have opened the postal packet to examine the product you must have done so without damaging or marking the product or packaging. It must not have been used and it must  have the heat seal still in place. It should be returned with the original postal packet and packing note you received with it.

Please note that orders that have been ground to order (e.g - not whole roasted beans) may be exempt from our usual returns policy, as these represent a customised special order item. Any 'Free Gifts' received with the product must also be returned. Coffee Real will not refund the cost of postage incurred in returning a item.

If you follow the steps above you will receive a full refund of the product price and any delivery charge paid.

We cannot cancel your purchase when:

The seal has been broken on any products, or the goods were a special order to your specification.

To qualify for a refund or exchange the product must be:

In otherwise "as new" condition; and complete with any free gifts offered with it and, if possible, the original box and packaging.
This promise does not cover faults caused by accident, neglect, misuse or normal wear and tear.

If you have a coffee subscription with us please note that if you change your address and/or product profile in your account settings after the purchase date this will not update your current order, only future orders and thus you will need to notify us by email of any changes you wish to make.

Additional Information

Another great project mico lot crop that we have worked on from the talented Mr Victor Robelo – this time from his Finca Santa Maria – this is just a stunning coffee from an absolutely stunning farm.

We are now into our second year working with Victor but taking coffee from Finca Santa Maria is a first. We visited the farm this year (2016)

Santa Maria is laid out over 50 hectares of prime coffee growing land in the Municipality of Dipilto, Nueva Segovia. The coffee is grown at an average altitude of 1,400 metres which is where all the attributes for growing speciality coffee can be found here.

On visiting Finca Santa Maria and as with all of Victor’s farms you can immediately see the care and attention to detail that farm Mandadors (farm managers) take to ensure the quality of crop.

The whole farm is managed sustainably and with great respect for the environment. They take great care of the water sources using it responsibly with all the “honey waters” (waters after the wet process) are fully treated and filtered.

The coffee pulp is composted and used as natural manure...and even the years earlier pruning are used as fuel on the farm – nothing is wasted.

Santa Maria is planted in the main with Caturra, although there are plots of Pacas. The coffee trees are lush and grow under the shade of Inga and banana, and due to an excellent farm management plan, sustainable control of pests and diseases and attention to detail with harvest procedures, Victor consistently produces some of Nicaragua’s best coffee.

Coffee is dry milled at Beneficio Las Nubes, Victor’s dry mill where coffees are patio and raise bed dried.

Victor has clearly inherited the family passion for and commitment to coffee farming, taking every effort to continuously improve quality in the cup, having invested heavily in the farms’ infrastructure and investing in a new wet mills and dry mill.

Victor is also committed to stewardship of the land and takes the best care to ensure the vitality and health of their coffee plantations. Every year, the family plants a minimum of 15,000 new plants and cares for them using environmentally friendly and sustainable farming practices.