№ 01
Nomen Nescio
Nomen Nescio — an unidentified variety found at Finca El Salvador
- Origin
- Cerro El Aguila, Santa Ana, El Salvador
- Farmer
- Rodolfo Ruffatti Batlle
- Process
- Macerated Natural
- Availability
- Low stock
Light roast · 250 g · whole bean
- Cranberries
- Wild Flowers
- Caramel
Chapter — Story
Rodolfo Ruffatti Batlle,
Finca El Salvador.
Nomen Nescio — Latin for name unknown — is a variety Rodolfo found growing at Finca El Salvador. It resists leaf rust and has entered the Hybrida plant-breeding program with Advance.Coffee.
The plant seems built for long fermentations. Processed as a macerated natural, it delivers a cranberry-and-floral cup that behaves less like a coffee and more like a rare cordial.
Chapter — Origin
Chapter — Brewing
Recommended recipes.
V60
Medium grind, 93 °C.
Origami
Kasuya-style pulses.
AeroPress
Long steep, gentle press.
Chapter — Cup
On the cupping table.
- Aroma
- Cranberry, wild flowers, caramel
- Acidity
- Juicy, malic
- Body
- Delicate, tea-like
- Finish
- Soft caramel, floral cordial
Four scenes,
one painting.
The artwork for Nomen Nescio read as an exhibition — reframed four ways, one for each part of the coffee's life.
The seed
Nomen Nescio — an unidentified variety found at Finca El SalvadorThe variety, drawn as it grows: Nomen Nescio — an unidentified variety found at Finca El Salvador. Selected on Rodolfo's cupping table before it was ever named for us.
The slope
1,600 maslCerro El Aguila, Santa Ana. Worked at 1,600 masl on the north face of Cerro El Águila — the aspect that decides how slowly the cherry ripens.
The process
ProcessMacerated Natural. Treated as a design decision, not a tradition — the fermentation is what turns this lot into itself.
The cup
Light roastIn the cup: Cranberries, Wild Flowers, Caramel. Soft caramel, floral cordial on the finish, once the coffee has cooled enough to speak.
Productor.Coffee
Rodolfo Ruffatti Batlle · Santa Ana, El Salvador
- Producer
- Rodolfo Ruffatti Batlle
- Project
- Productor.Coffee
- Estate
- Finca El Salvador (FES)
- Region
- Cerro El Águila, Santa Ana
- Country
- El Salvador
- Generation
- Sixth-generation producer
Three farms — one approach to quality and process. Rodolfo is a sixth-generation coffee producer with family roots in Turin, Italy. He manages farms in the Santa Ana region of El Salvador, each serving a distinct role in his operation.
He is recognised internationally for his processing expertise, having shared methods with producers across Latin America. His approach is detail-oriented and grounded in data — he measures by latitude as much as altitude.
Finca El Salvador (FES)
Flagship estate on Cerro El Águila, north face of the Apaneca-Ilamatepec range
- Location
- Cerro El Águila, Santa Ana, El Salvador
- Altitude
- 1,350 – 1,600 m
- Latitude
- 13.9° N
- Area
- 70+ hectares of coffee, 20 ha preserved wild forest
- Varieties
- Bourbon, Red Bourbon, Sudan Rume, Tabi, Portillo, Sarchimor
- Processing
- Washed, Natural, Macerated Natural, Kombucha Natural, Washed × Natural
Select lots are released as FES. Lower elevation is sold separately as Piemonte.
Lote Alto
- Altitude
- 1,600 – 1,700 m
- Aspect
- North face, upper canopy
- Variety
- Pacamara, experimental hybrids
- Soil
- Volcanic loam, high mineral
- Harvest
- February — late
The coldest of the three. Slow ripening and long fermentations. Where the experimental lots begin.
