Finca Patagonia, El Salvador | ESPRESSO

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Finca Patagonia has been owned by the Salinas Family since the late1800s and was one of El Salvador’s premier farms for many years. The farm was divided into three parts in the early 1980s when the original owners’ three children took over as the next generation, and the larger part of the farm was kept by the eldest son, Julio Salinas. In March of 2013, Oscar and Christian Schaps decided to purchase Finca Patagonia from their uncle Julio Salinas after learning that the rich coffee lands were for sale. The Schaps brothers are fourth-generation coffee producers in Guatemala and owners of the well-known farms Finca Los Caballitos and Finca Santa Paula, and at the time they had been considering investing in El Salvador in order to pursue new challenges and expand their portfolio of coffees. Patagonia was a must for the Schaps brothers since this farm was their grandfather’s, and they could not bear to see it go out of the family. Since then, the brothers have been working hard to transform Patagonia into a high-quality farm, just like their farms in Guatemala.