NOTES: RED PLUMS, GRAPE, GREEN TEA, RED CURRANTS WITH A GREEN APPLE CITRUS AND ALMOND FINISH.

Mariano de Jesús Ramírez is a producer from the community of Azacualpa, municipality of Tomala in the department of Lempira, where his parents DonTolentino Ramírez and Justina López were also native. Since his childhood he has been linked to coffee cultivation when his father started planting the first 0.70 hectares of coffee in the community of El Zapote, At the age of 14, he decided to leave his parents’ home and together, with a cousin and a friend, migrated to the department of Santa Bárbara in search of better job opportunities. Eventually they found work harvesting coffee in the mountains of El Merendón, cleaning the farms and paddocks after the harvest season and spent seven years there. In 1986, he planted his first hectare of coffee in El Zapote and then a second hectare in 1987, selling his first crop in cherry. With the coffee and petate profits, pig raising and cattle business, he could hire day laborers to plant more corn, beans and more coffee in the lands his father gave him as inheritance. He eventually married Lidia Hernández and had 11 children, 3 girls and 8 boys.