Published: November 13, 2025
By Emily Cappiello
When brothers Jose and Andres Larin set out to create Estate 98 Licor de Café Especial, they weren’t just launching a new coffee liqueur—they were bottling generations of family history, which runs deep in El Salvador.
Their story begins on the slopes of two volcanoes in El Salvador—Santa Ana and Izalco — where their earliest memories are of mornings on the coffee farm: the sound of birds, the scent of ripe cherries, and the rhythm of harvest days. “My brother and I grew up there,” he says. “Some of my earliest memories as a human were on that farm; riding horses, playing hide-and-seek between mountains of coffee, watching the workers who lived there and became part of our extended family.”
It was turning the pandemic that the brothers really started thinking about how to honor their family legacy, while moving into a new space. With the popularity of the espresso martini and their roots in the coffee industry, it was almost too good to pass up the opportunity to extend the roots that had already been firmly planted. And Estate 98 was born.