Notes of Blackberry Jam, Ceylon Tea, Apple

  • El Paramo, San Ignacio, Cajamarca
  • Peru
  • 1,850 MASL
  • Washed
  • Caturra
  • Blackberry Jam, Ceylon Tea, Apple
Elizabeth Rojas’s washed Caturra is back again, and we’re excited to share it with you for another season. It’s bright, silky and sweet, with notes of apple, black tea and blackberry jam. A super easy-drinking coffee.

We sourced this coffee through our exporting partner Red Beetle, who we work closely with in Peru and Mexico. Red Beetle exists to bring high-potential coffees from under-represented communities to the speciality market. In doing so, it delivers higher prices and a more secure income to producers, along with technical assistance to help them improve production.

In Peru, Red Beetle works in partnership with the CASIL cooperative of farmers, based in San Ignacio, Cajamarca. Elton and José from CASIL do most of the groundwork in the region in terms of QC and technical assistance, with Red Beetle providing additional QC and links to market.

Elizabeth’s farm, El Páramo, sits at 1,850 MASL near the town of El Chaupe in Cajamarca, bordering the huge Tabacones Namballe nature reserve. The Red Beetle team have found that the areas surrounding the reserve deliver incredible coffee, and that is certainly the case here.

The coffee is grown with plenty of shade cover and is harvested by Elizabeth with the help of her parents and brother. After resting in cherry, it undergoes a 40-hour open-tank dry fermentation before being pulped, washed, and laid out to dry on raised beds for 15 to 20 days.

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