HONDURAS • SENDERO DE LUZ • SHADY LANE

SHADY LANE

HONDURAS • SENDERO DE LUZ

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FLAVOR PROFILE

Pecan

Grape Juice

Chocolate Brownie

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BEANOLOGY

Origin: El Playón, Ajuterique, La Paz — Honduras

Producers: Smallholder Producers

Producer Group: Sendero de Luz

Varietal: Catuaí

Elevation: 1600 Meters

Process: Fully Washed

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BEANOGRAPHY

This edition of Shady Lane comes from Sendero de Luz in Honduras.

The coffee is Catuaí grown at approximately 1600 metres and is fully washed.

Its stated tasting profile is pecan, grape juice, and chocolate brownie.

Sendero de Luz is important to the identity of this coffee because the source material describes it as a community hub serving several small farms in El Playón. This is therefore a coffee whose provenance is connected not only to origin and cultivar but also to a shared smallholder production structure.

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ORIGIN

El Playón, Ajuterique, La Paz — Honduras

The coffee comes from smallholder producers connected with Sendero de Luz in El Playón.

The current information identifies the coffee as Catuaí grown at approximately 1600 metres.

Rather than substituting a generic farm designation, Phoenix retains Sendero de Luz as the producer-group identity supplied for this lot.

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PROCESSING METHOD

Fully Washed

Fully washed coffee is depulped after harvest so the outer fruit is removed.

Remaining mucilage is subsequently removed before the coffee is dried.

The term describes the post-harvest treatment of the coffee and is distinct from the later roasting process.

This Sendero de Luz lot is identified as Fully Washed.

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PRODUCER SPOTLIGHT

Sendero de Luz

Sendero de Luz is described as a community hub for several small farms in El Playón.

Fresh coffee cherries from participating producers can therefore move into a shared processing structure rather than requiring every smallholder to duplicate the same infrastructure independently.

The supplied material also notes that this model can help participating farms negotiate pricing while reducing shared milling and transportation costs.

For Phoenix, retaining the designation Producer Group communicates this structure more accurately than presenting Sendero de Luz as though it were one individual farm.

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