Canary Islands, Los Grimones Estate Gran Canaria Coffee

The Los Grimones Estate farm was founded in 1975 by Juan Sosa García and his wife Josefa Alamo Sosa. Since then, the family tradition has happily continued with their son Juan Sosa Alamo taking over management of the farm in 2004, and he is now assisted by his own two daughters. Coffee farming has become a Sosa family tradition and Sea Island are proud to offer yet another example of the exquisite artisanal estate coffee production for which the Canary Islands have become famous.

Coffee first came to the Canary Islands in the late 18th century, when the first coffee trees were planted in the ‘La Orotava Acclimatization Garden’ in Tenerife, founded by royal decree in 1788. The garden was built by King Carlos III of Spain to take advantage of the Canary Islands’ warm climate to grow exotic plants and seeds from America and Asia.

Today, coffee is still produced in extremely small amounts on the islands of Tenerife, La Palma, El Hierro, and Gran Canaria by family run estates. Very little coffee leaves the islands, with most of it consumed by the producing families or sold to local roasters and coffee shops.