Café Miramar is one of the finest coffees grown in Nicaragua.  Café Miramar is an organically grown Arabica bean cultivated on a 20 acre farm at an altitude of 4,000 feet in the mountains of northern Nicaragua.  No chemicals are used in its cultivation and no trees are cut down on the farm.   Therefore, the robust plants are grown under the shade of the forest canopy, extending their growing season and developing that intense yet smooth flavor for which Nicaraguan coffee is becoming famous.

Miramar is harvested by hand, the old fashioned way, without machines.  After the ripe cherries are picked and hauled by horse and human to the farm’s mill to remove the pulp from the beans (ok, an electric motor is used in this process).  The beans are then laid in raised screens under the sun for drying and the pulp is used for compost. After several days the beans are sent to the local mill by horse to remove the last remaining skin from the dried beans.  Then they are finally ready for roasting.

Café Miramar is roasted exclusively at the El Gato Negro Coffeehouse in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua.  El Gato Negro is the sole vendor of Café Miramar.  Roastmaster Celia Cortez spends her time coaxing the innate flavors from our selection of Single Origin Coffees.  Celia roasts in small batches with an Ambex gas-fired 2.2 kilo roaster.  She has personally roasted and packaged your coffee.