Every page in Central America (9), listed A–Z with a one-line identifier.
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Central America (9)
Finca El Cambalache — The roughly three-hectare Nueva Segovia farm run by Abner Samuel Zavala, which has placed at the Nicaragua Cup of Excellence three times — fourth in 2018 and second in 2021 with Maracaturra, and first in the washed category in 2026 at 91.44.
Finca El Injerto — The Aguirre family’s estate in La Libertad, Huehuetenango — a farm founded in 1874 that has won Guatemala’s Cup of Excellence and set the country’s top auction prices with Pacamara and Geisha.
Finca El Porvenir (San Fernando) — Sergio Noé Ortez Ortez’s oldest family farm, in the mountains north-east of Ocotal — bought by his father in 1978, worked up from a first harvest of under 150 kg, and the source of Nicaragua’s second-placed natural Pacamara at the 2025 Cup of Excellence.
Finca El Puente — The Honduran farm that won the 2016 Cup of Excellence at $120 a pound — run by Marysabel Caballero and Moisés Herrera in the highlands of La Paz, and the country’s most consistently decorated name in specialty coffee.
Finca Elite — The small Mozonte farm in Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua, whose honey-processed Geisha scored 91.77 at the 2025 Nicaragua Cup of Excellence — the highest score of that competition — and which almost nothing else is published about.
Finca La Esperanza (Dipilto) — The Zavala family’s original farm in Dipilto, Nueva Segovia — 1,300 m, once ordinary washed Caturra selling at 3.55 a pound in 2006, and the source of the washed Geisha that won the 2025 Nicaragua Cup of Excellence at 66.
Finca Solidaridad — The roughly three-hectare smallholding in Matagalpa, Nicaragua farmed by José Ramón Jarquín Gómez, whose washed Maracaturra placed second at the 2025 Nicaragua Cup of Excellence and sold for $14 a pound.
Fincas Mierisch — The German-descended Nicaraguan family that has been growing coffee since 1908 and now farms across Matagalpa, Jinotega and Honduras’s Comayagua highlands — owners of Santa Lucía, the farm that won the Honduran Cup of Excellence outright in both 2019 and 2021.
Hacienda Sonora — A roughly 100-hectare family estate at the foot of Costa Rica’s Poás Volcano that runs its coffee mill on its own water — one of the few farms in specialty coffee whose sustainability claim is an engineering fact rather than a certificate.