about this
coffee
“Rebeca is the pillar of our family. She is everything.” says her father, Heberto Rivas.
Rebeca leads administration and operations for her family’s organic specialty coffee farm in Samarkanda, Nicaragua. When we sat down to speak with Rebeca last month, she recalled her earliest memories on her family’s farm, helping to select out defective coffee beans from the harvest. Coffee has been there through the ups and downs of her life, including last year, when Heberto had to undergo heart surgery at the start of harvest season. The Rivas-Melgara family, led by Rebeca, navigated that challenging time with the help of their community—a community that extends around the world to Vega customers, who savor Finca Los Angeles’s coffee as part of a treasured daily ritual. Rebeca and Heberto tell us how grateful they are to be wrapped in that support. And just the same, we too, are profoundly grateful to the entire Rivas-Melgara family for giving us the honor of sharing the exceptional fruits of their labor with the world.
“If I could have a cup of coffee with anyone in the world, it would be an honor to share one with a customer.” -Heberto
Tasting Notes: fruit - cinnamon - vanilla
Varietals: java, parainema, caturra, catuai, catimor, marsellesa, lempira
Altitude: 3950 feet above sea level
Process: washed