Montecarlos Video
Lucia
May 10, 2019
In February 2019, Chris and Ayr joined George Howell in El Salvador to meet Carlos Batres and see Montecarlos Estate. Here is a taste journey
In February 2019, Chris and Ayr joined George Howell in El Salvador to meet Carlos Batres and see Montecarlos Estate. Here is a taste journey
Carlos has 3 customers. George Howell. A former employee of George Howell. And Starbucks. Starbucks doesn’t blend coffee from Montecarlos. It’s part of a program
You’re looking at over 100,000 coffee plants. They will all go in the ground in 2019 at Montecarlos. We stopped by this outdoor plant nursery
This gentleman was manning the weight station. Trucks are used to transport coffee berries from the mountain to the processing facility. When the trucks arrive
That’s George Howell’s hand with the seeds of one coffee berry. Coffee typically has 2 seeds in each berry. There is a genetic defect called
Most of the pictures you see of coffee show a red berry. Or green. Green is unripe. Red is ripe. But occasionally a coffee plant
The first day in El Salvador I asked Carlos Batres, the owner of Montecarlos, about his coffee drinking habits. I’m always curious to learn about
Chris and I toyed with the idea of bringing a drone to El Salvador. But in the end we opted not to. I didn’t want
That picture is an action shot. I just squeezed a coffee bean out of the berry. Coffee is the seed of a berry. Did you
I love posters. When I was a student at MIT we were living in this buzzing new digital world. Early text. Early email. Early everything
