Roast Level: Medium

Tasting Notes: Floral, Citrus, and Chocolate

What’s the best way to support coffee producers? This is exactly the question Juan de Dios Castillo (the family’s agronomist) and his 4 siblings were looking to answer when they created J&M Family Coffee, a privately-owned export company named after their parents, Juan and Miriam (J&M).

Their first goal was to sell their parents’ coffee directly to international buyers. It was a way to honor Finca Paraiso, the farms their parents started during their childhood, with the income from the first family business as tailors in the town of Jinotega.

Today, Finca Paraiso is a collection of five family-owned parcels with 100 acres of organic coffee production. During the harvest, the coffee cherries are carefully harvested, sorted, and then de-pulped, fermented, washed, and pre-dried at the farm.

The partially dried coffee is taken to a nearby location where drying is completed, and the coffee is stored and later prepared for export. This is a truly integrated model in which J&M Family Coffee ensures quality control and traceability from farm to export. Royal was the first importer to buy from J&M Family Coffee when they started operations in 2014.