Honduras | Celia Portillo 2025

Region: Pichingo, HondurasProcess: WashedVariety: BourbonAltitude: 1750 maslWe Taste: Plum, Brown Sugar, Milk Chocolate Though Celia has been producing coffee for many years, this is only her second year processing her own coffee down to parchment. Historically, she loaded her coffee on donkeys and sold cherry or depulped coffee in the nearby town of Comoyagua at market price. As production costs have increased year over year, this model has become increasingly less sustainable for smallholder producers, like Celia. A few years ago, she requested assistance from her nephew, Jesus Galeas to help process, dry, and improve the quality of her coffee. Jesus is a multigenerational coffee producer, with experience as a field technician for the Honduras Coffee Institute (IHCAFE). Currently Jesus acts as an on the ground support-network for the producers that Semilla purchases from, and he connected Celia with Semilla.  Celia's coffee was our favorite among the samples we tasted from Semilla la