Little Saint - Pompilio Ramos

Sweetly fruited with flavors of mixed berries and brown sugar with a ripe baked apple finish Producer: Pompilio Ramos Archila Place: El Cielito, Santa Barbara (1600m) Process & Varieties: Fully Washed Pacas Pompilio Ramos is had led a long life in coffee and at 74 years old is still producing exceptional coffee in the village of El Cielito on Santa Barbara Mountain.  His heritage Pacas and Catimor trees are picked at peak ripeness over a slow maturing season and undergo a long cold fermentation of 18-20 hours and after three rinses the coffee dries on covered beds for a prolonged 20 days allowing for slow even drying preserving its sweetness and structure.  Pompilio has worked with coffee from his youth moving up the mountain into El Cielito after marrying his wife Gladis to be near her family.  After many years working through every facet of coffee production he saved enough money to buy some land and plant his first coffee trees in 1980 but it was the Cup of Excellence that led h