The Bernardina number of 2013 was found on the Los Bellotos farm in El Salvador, run by the Pacas household.
The beans have been most likely dropped at El Salvador from Ethiopia, from Agaro, by a earlier proprietor of the farm someday within the Nineteen Forties. 5 timber in a distant nook of the Los Bellotos farm survive. For a few years, the cherries have been processed with the bourbon cherries that have been in any other case grown on the farm. However, the farm supervisor on the time, Roberto Bernadine Merche, saved mentioning that these beans have been particular: when the beans have been processed within the moist mill, the tropical aromas of mango and jasmine may nonetheless be smelled far throughout the farm, so exceptionally sturdy is the flavour profile.
After DNA evaluation at a lab in Italy, the variability was discovered to be 70% Geisha espresso and 30% closest in DNA to a range known as Agaro, discovered solely within the Agaro space of Ethiopia.
The primary lot of this selection was offered to Nolan Hirte of Proud Mary in 2013. As a result of he discovered the lot to be so uncommon and considerably extra thrilling in style than a “common” Geisha selection, he paid $50/kg. By comparability, a daily Specialty Espresso lot would have value about $8/kg.
As a result of this selection didn’t exist in any current espresso database till then, Maria Pacas was allowed to call it and gave it the identify “Bernardina” after the farm supervisor, Roberto Bernadine Merche, who had at all times stated that these first 5 timber have been very particular, so he virtually found them.
Since then, Maria Pacas has planted this selection on a number of of the 19 farms that belong to Pacas Cafè. There are actually many 1000’s of timber producing excellent espresso.
Nolan Hirte, founding father of Proud Mary in Melbourne, Australia, tells how he purchased the primary lot of Bernardina, how the espresso got here from Ethiopia to El Salvador, and the way Maria Pacas and he made it world well-known.
The particular factor about this story is that the primary 5 espresso timber of Los Bellotos have been already over 70 years outdated at the moment and are actually already over 80 years outdated. Usually, espresso timber don’t become older than about 25 years, after which they’re changed. However this story offers cause to consider this agricultural method.
The Unique Bernardina crop will proceed to be roasted and offered by Proud Mary. The entire story can also be described on this weblog article.
