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Our family’s passion for coffee began more than a century ago when our ancestors, José María and Ramón Gaviña, left their homeland in Spain for the rich coffee-growing regions of southern Cuba. On that lush Caribbean island, with its warm tropical breezes and fertile soil, the brothers planted coffee trees on their farm and called it Hacienda Buenos Aires. It was there that our family’s patriarch, Don Francisco Gaviña, was born. As a boy, he watched his father till the soil, plant seedlings, tend the trees and make sure that only the ripest and most flavorful coffee cherries were handpicked. His father then taught him how to process, dry and sort only the best quality beans. Then, he learned the fine art of roasting them to attain peak flavor and aroma.