Finca Chelín Gesha

Enrique’s farm Finca Chelín is renowned for his high-quality lots, ranging is multitudes of experimental ferments of high cost and quality varietals. Enrique is highly influential in Oaxaca, and delivers educational training, talks, and access to buyers for other producers in the region.

Cherries are picked very ripe (dark red - purple, ideally around 26°Brix), After floaters are removed, clean cherries rest in concrete tanks for 2 nights and depulped in the morning (roughly 40 hours of rest). Then they are depulped and put to dry just as the other honeys at Chelín (first 2 days under direct sun to enhance tartaric acidity and complex fruity profile, then under shade). In comparison to the Red Honey which undergoes less time resting in cherry, the Black Honey tends to have more notes of ripe fruits, figs, dark berries and an enhanced malic acidity.