Cafe Vidita

Cafe Vidita is a family owned specialty coffee business. We simply love coffee and are passionate about producing only the finest quality Nicaraguan coffees. Vidita means life in Spanish and that is what coffee is to us…life! It all started in the 1930s when the family patriarch Jose Rene Paguaga was a young boy helping out on his father’s coffee farm. As he grew into an energetic teenager, his passion for coffee led him to start his own farm. He knew it would be a long-term commitment as he would not see the fruit of his labor for another 3-5 years, but coffee was in his blood and his journey began. Jose Rene Paguaga, or Don Rene as he is known, had to overcome many challenges as he grew his farm. The most difficult was when civil war came to Nicaragua in 1979. By that time, Don Rene had expanded his business to include multiple farms and a dry mill. He was forced to take his family out of the country to keep them safe. All was taken away by the radical government. They claimed that the farms were not being cared for. This was not true. That same year Don Rene’s farms had produced the highest yield in the Nueva Segovia region. Now they were no longer his.