Stonecutter Coffee Series: Miguel Padilla Chinguel - VERY LIMITED RELEASE!

Our Stonecutter Coffee is a rotating highlight series - a tribute to the rich history of Deer Isle-Stonington's granite quarrying industry that peaked in the early 1900s. These beans often come to us from unique coffee producing regions of the world, embracing inventive processing methods, and/or out of this world flavor from small farms. Limited amounts available, changing frequently, and now packaged in our one of a kind Stonecutter 10 oz. coffee tubes! These are the coffees that currently excite us a micro-roasters.

These tubes are designed and hand drawn by Deer Isle local artist Farrell Ruppert. They feature the slabs of granite quarried out of Stonington. Made of 100% FSC certified paper, soy ink, with gold foiled accents and a sticker of the current origin inside. For every tube made, a portion of profits are donated to One Tree Planted.

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This next Stonecutter lhighliught coffee will not be around long. We have only about 30 lbs. so act now if you are interested.

As part of Sol y Café in Jaen, Peru, we got this lovely coffee as holiday gifts for our fellow Cooperative Coffee partners. We have a little left and it's just too good not to share! Miguel is a farmer with an established quality track record growing on his 4.5 hectare farm named “Parcela El Romerillo”. Miguel won first place in last year's Cup of Excellence competition and has also placed third (2023) and second (2024) in the CACJ Peru "Golden Cup" competition. The Cup of Excellence (COE) is the world's most prestigious coffee competition and auction, identifying and rewarding the highest-quality coffees from participating countries, elevating farmer incomes, and setting industry quality standards through a rigorous, multi-stage blind judging process by national and international coffee experts. Winning COE coffees command significant premiums in auctions, offering traceability and showcasing exceptional flavor profiles, driving innovation and sustainability in specialty coffee.

This coffee roasted nicely and there was no question when we cupped it, the tasting notes were clear and delicious: key lime front and center, a bright acidity, but definitely sweet, strong notes of nutmeg, brown sugar, and such a creamy body. Darn good!

Tasting Notes: Key lime, nutmeg, brown sugar, cream

Farmer Cooperative: Parcela El Romerillo & Sol y Café

Latitude: 11º South

Certified Organic & Fair-Trade

All tubes and bags come Whole Bean. For ground beans please select "Ground" and specify your brew method in the message box at checkout. Default grind is drip.