Honduras: La Alondra - March Pickings

Honduras: La Alondra, Washed - March Pickings Expect a super creamy milk chocolate hit here. A little shoulder of sultana gives way to a gentle peach and raspberry note on the aftertaste, but this one's all about that milk chocolate. This coffee comes from La Alondra, a family farm in the misty highlands of Lepaterique, Honduras – and we've managed to source something a bit special from them this year. We've got three lots from the same trees, same varietals, same washed processing, but picked a month apart. These are the March pickings – we've also released January (all chocolate orange with a dried fruit sweetness) and February (sticky toffee pudding richness with creamy caramel and hazelnut) this year, so you can follow the harvest and taste the difference for yourself. March cherries had the longest time on the tree of all three lots. They're the slow-maturers, still developing as the season winds down – and at La Alondra's 1,700 metres, dropping night temperatures towards the end of harvest slow sugar development, building a softer, more integrated sweetness rather than the bold, punchy character of earlier pickings. The washed processing strips everything back too, removing the fruit before drying so there's nothing extra layered on top.