Seasonal Nicaragua Las Segovias 250g Beans

Located in the gateway to Las Segovias at 1250-1350 MASL, this coffee is grown in the department of Estelí and produced by farmers who are members of PRODECOOP, one of Nicaragua's most respected coffee cooperatives. Surrounded by steep mountainsides, fertile volcanic soils and a cool, humid climate, the region provides ideal conditions for cultivating exceptional Arabica coffee. The nutrient-rich soils and slow maturation at high altitude contribute to a cup of outstanding quality, balance and complexity.

PRODECOOP is a cooperative that has supported coffee-growing communities across Estelí, Madriz and Nueva Segovia since 1993. For more than three decades, the organisation has worked alongside thousands of smallholder farmers to improve coffee quality while promoting sustainable farming practices and strengthening local livelihoods.

Beyond producing exceptional coffee, PRODECOOP is deeply committed to investing in the future of its farming communities through a range of meaningful initiatives. At Estelí the cooperative supports education by providing thousands of schoolchildren with backpacks and school supplies each year, encouraging learning and school attendance. Through its Women's Initiative, female producers and their families have access to loans that create opportunities to establish small businesses and strengthen household incomes. Community health is also a priority, with programmes promoting preventative healthcare and providing access to cervical cancer screening. Farmers receive ongoing training in pest management, disease prevention and variety diversification, helping to improve both coffee quality and long-term productivity. Food security programmes further strengthen farming families by encouraging the cultivation of diverse crops and livestock alongside coffee production, building resilience against changing climate conditions.

Once harvested, ripe coffee cherries are selectively handpicked before being delivered to nearby wet mills. There, the cherries are carefully pulped, fermented and washed using clean water before the parchment is dried slowly in the sun on open patios. This traditional washed process produces a beautifully clean and vibrant cup, allowing the coffee's natural sweetness and distinctive regional character to shine through.

The result is a beautifully balanced coffee cup selected for its smooth, comforting sweetness with notes of caramel and pecan, complemented by a rich dark chocolate finish. Full-bodied and beautifully balanced, it's a coffee that showcases the exceptional quality of Nicaragua in every sip.

Why Our Coffee is The Best?

Sourcing the Pick of the Crop

Established relationships with producers and the coffee farming community means we can consistently source the best Arabica and Robusta beans from over 40 origins across the Coffee Growing Belt. At Kingdom Coffee we always demand the pick of the crop. We buy Grade 1 or “Strictly High Grown” – SHG coffee beans. By selecting only coffee beans from the highest elevations we can be sure that the bean has matured more slowly, grown to a larger size and with more density to create a consistently great taste profile.

There’s no denying that coffee grown at higher elevations produces the best flavour profiles, which is then sorted and graded by the farmers with greater care and attention and therefore command a higher premium price which we are very happy to pay! We believe passionately that farmers should be rewarded fairly for their hard work and the quality of their crop.

 

 

Investing in the Purest and Cleanest Roast

ROASTING BETTER: We are unique in that we roast on a clean bed of air in small batches as opposed to conventional drum roasting - only 1% of coffee is roasted this way. Air roasting elevates the natural sweetness to give a smooth and pure taste. Unlike traditional roasting, the chaff, the skin of the bean, that surrounds the raw bean is removed during the air process whilst in normal roasting this is burnt onto the bean. This makes the resultant air roasted beans more pure as the beans will taste less burnt and acidic.

CONSISTENCY: Another benefit to Air Roasting is consistency - typical roasters rely upon roasting “to colour“ which returns a high degree of variance from batch to batch. The Air Roasters rely upon exact metrics such as temperature and time with specific profiles that have been developed by our Q Grader, a certified coffee professional, to suit the particular bean. An exact science rather than guess work.

 

 

Protecting the Environment

We all have to recognise and assess our individual impact upon the environment. Our new Air Roaster uses 30% less energy than a typical roaster and reduces wasted heat by recirculating it in a fully enclosed system. We have a catalytic converter to ensure that harmful gases released are reduced by around 96%. Committing further to minimise our impact on the planet we have moved our packaging to 100% curb-side recyclable. This new packaging still protects that fresh roasted taste.

 

 

OUR BEANS are amongst the freshest on the market, being roasted to stock in the UK as opposed to importing roasted beans on a much longer timescale. Our Neotech roaster is more environmentally friendly, energy efficient and better than conventional drum roasters in that it can roast in specific small batches with unique roasting profiles that are able to compensate product variations and unfold the unique flavour of each individual coffee blend whilst reducing wasted heat by recirculating in the fully enclosed system.

Our range of Ethical coffees support our partnership with Toybox, who we aim to donate £100,000 over a period of ten years, having donated £50,000 in the last 5 years. This enabled Toybox to provide the resources needed for the street outreach team throughout 2020, conducting 240 visits to children in the most high-risk areas in Guatemala City as well as deliver 100 children across the city a warm and nutritious meal each week. Your continued support of Kingdom Coffee means that we can fund vital projects like this so thank you very much!