El Salvador
Aida Batlle
Grand Reserve Peaberry

This coffee from Aida Batlle, one of the world’s most renowned producers, never even goes to market. Instead, Aida sets it aside for roasters like us. Peaberry coffee often elicits admiration. The naturally occurring mutation, whereby one seed grows inside a coffee cherry instead of two, makes for a rounder bean that roasts more evenly than its oval-shaped brethren. For Aida to isolate all of the peaberry grown on her family’s three farms, her team hand sorts the anomalies out. As painstaking as this might seem, such precision is, for them, part and parcel of how Aida works.