Nicaragua Finca Buenos Aires

The Buenos Aires Caturra has a mild dry fragrance, a compound of dark sugars and roasted nuts, that when adding hot water shifts to smells of bittersweet cacao, a hint of caramel, with nutty granola accents. The cup shows balanced sweetness with bittersweet low tones that pair well with heavy-bodied liquor. Always a crowd pleasing brew, Buenos Aires' sweetness is simple, but displays a nice range of raw and cooked brown sugars when roasted to at least City+, along with low tones that are punchy, like dark cocoa, and slightly bittering. Accent notes touch on chocolate-covered pumpkin seeds, pungent burnt sugar, raw and roasted nuts, and vanilla bean. The cup flavors are succinct, with a bit of an abrupt finish, albeit bittersweet. As espresso, Buenos Aires is quite nice as a chocolatey solo shot,  but also functions well as a bittersweet/body base ingredient for a blend.