This comes to us from our friends at Royal Coffee in Emeryville, CA. Hailing from San Ignacio, Cajamarca in northern Peru, this coffee is cultivated on small independent family farms.
Peru’s northern Andes are lush, humid, mountainous, and a kind of visceral threshold between the drier Pacific slopes and the cavernous and rain forested lowlands of the Amazon basin on the eastern side. The highlands here are broad and varied in elevation and microclimate. Coffee has had a dominant presence here for decades and the northern departments of Cajamarca, Amazonas, and Piura are well-established in the marketplace for their certified cooperatives representing tens of thousands of smallholder farmers. Perales Huancaruna (PERHUSA) is a cooperative in northern Peru that manages coffee from farmer associates throughout the region. This specific lot comes to us from a combination of small family-run farms in the local municipality, near the city of San Ignacio, close to the Ecuadorian border. During harvest, the farms have minimal hired labor to assist with picking and land management, all of which is carefully and entirely done by hand. Once picked, coffee is mechanically processed using a small machine, fermented in an above-ground tank for 24 to 36 hours, manually scrubbed clean and then dried for about 10 days on small patios. Finally, the fully dried parchment is delivered to one of PERHUSA’s local warehouses for safekeeping and conditioning. From there deliveries are sampled and consolidated by PERHUSA’s quality team or kept separate for traceability or quality reasons. In Peru the bulk of coffee production comes from small farms owned and managed by people who have for many years followed organic farm management practice that is attuned to their cultural connection with the land.
On the cupping table, this coffee wowed us with vibrant notes of vanilla bean, hints of caramel and cherries in the finish. This medium roasted coffee is a low-toned and richly sweet cup which shines in all brewing methods. A well-rounded stunner, we’re thrilled to have this coffee around.
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ORIGIN: Peru.
REGION: San Ignacio, Cajamarca.
PRODUCER: Smallholder farmers. (PERHUSA)
TASTE: Vanilla bean, caramel and cherry.
PROCESS: Fully washed and dried in the sun.
ALTITUDE: 1400 – 1750masl.
HARVEST: May to October.
VARIETAL: Typica, Caturra, Catimor, Pache, Mundo Novo, and Bourbon.
CERTIFICATIONS: USDA organic.
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