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Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for Los Pirineos Pacamara, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Los Pirineos Pacamara; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Los Pirineos Pacamara; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Los Pirineos Pacamara; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇸🇻El Salvador

Los Pirineos Pacamara

Roasted by Tim WendelboeRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsEl SalvadorTecapa-Chinameca, UsulutanPacamaraWashedDark ChocolateArabicaSingle originLos PirineosDiego BaraonaTim Wendelboe
🇸🇻El SalvadorWashedPacamara
Brand
—
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇸🇻El Salvador
Region
Tecapa-Chinameca, Usulutan
Town
Chinameca
Farm / Station
Los Pirineos
Farmer / Producer
Diego Baraona
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Pacamara
Process
Roast
—
Tasting notes
Tart red berries, Stone fruit, Dark chocolate
Fermentation
Overnight dry fermentation
Drying
Raised beds with shade nets, covered at night
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • ALTITUDE MThe source publishes only the farm-wide 1,100–1,400 m range; no artificial point elevation is stored.
  • REGION IDTecapa-Chinameca and Usulután are documented in text, but no exact existing region record matches this location.
  • ROAST LEVELThe exact product page does not publish a conventional light-to-dark roast label.
  • ROAST DATENo bag-specific roast date is available.
  • FORMAL GRADENo formal green-coffee grade is published; the profile uses Not specified.
  • PUBLIC RATING DEPTHThe public rating is based on one exact independent scored source; no aggregation claim is made.
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The transparency chain

FROM THE BAG
BACK TO THE LAND.

Every link we could verify, traced in one place. Follow the chain as far as it goes — when the industry doesn't disclose a link, we say so instead of guessing.

  1. 01
    The name on the bag
    Los Pirineos Pacamara
  2. 02
    The brand
    Not disclosed
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Tim Wendelboe
  4. 04
    The variety
    Pacamara
  5. 05
    The farm
    Los Pirineos
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Diego Baraona
  7. 07
    The region
    Tecapa-Chinameca, Usulutan
  8. 08
    The country
    🇸🇻El Salvador
From the producer

Los Pirineos sits on the Tecapa volcano in Chinameca, Usulutan, over 150 hectares at roughly 1,100-1,400 masl, where the Baraona family has planted more than 80 cultivars under native shade.

From the roaster

An intense and fruity Pacamara coffee with notes of tart red berries, stone fruit and dark chocolate. Tim Wendelboe notes it shows none of the herbal, oniony faults Pacamara can carry.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

Pacamara was released in El Salvador before it was genetically stable, and cups vary wildly - which is exactly why Los Pirineos matters: the farm helped develop the cultivar and selected an exceptional line, winning repeated Cup of Excellence top-10 placements under Gilberto Baraona. His son Diego continues that work, now also producing certified Pacamara seed for other farmers. A rare case of variety, farm selection and sorting all pulling in the same direction.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Selective picking

Cherries are hand-picked, then unripe and damaged fruit is removed before processing.

02
Overnight dry fermentation

The coffee is depulped and dry-fermented overnight; mucilage is washed from the parchment the following morning.

03
Slow raised-bed drying

The parchment dries on raised beds, most under shade nets, with daytime raking and nighttime covering to limit condensation and moisture regain.

04
Protected storage

Dried coffee is stored in airtight GrainPro bags, then milled, sorted and vacuum-packed at the farm before shipment to Norway.

What was added?

Nothing is disclosed as added during processing.

What wasn't added?

No fruit, yeast, spices or post-roast flavoring are documented.

Why it matters

Los Pirineos helped select a strong Pacamara line; selective picking, overnight fermentation and protected drying aim to preserve its red-fruit character without the herbal or onion-like traits sometimes associated with unstable Pacamara lines.

What you might taste

Tart red berries, stone fruit and dark chocolate with structured acidity.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://timwendelboe.no/products/los-pirineos-pacamara
Coffee profile

In the database. Not tasted. Not scored.

This coffee is in our database because we can reliably document it — but we haven't tasted and scored it yet, and we never publish a score we haven't earned.

Outside reviews and internet discussion — is kept clearly separate from our own review. When we taste it, our full review appears here.

The internet pulse

What the internet is saying about this coffee

Research complete — no qualifying reviews yet

Our research pipeline scanned public reviews, videos, forums and discussions for this coffee (last pass 2026-10-25) and found no independent review of this exact release that meets our verification standards. When qualifying sources appear, they'll be published here.

What we found

Non-exact, seller, directory, generic-roaster, different-release, duplicate, and older-release sources were excluded. No qualifying independent exact-release review remains.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Los Pirineos →Meet the farmer: Diego Baraona →
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