Tasting Notes - Lovely light and elegant body. Flavours of caramel, brown sugar, orange marmalade and delicate honey like floral aromas.
Producer: Various
Varietal: Bourbon, Catimor, Caturra, Pache, Typica
Processing: Fully washed
Altitude - 1,200 to 1,600m
Today, Peruvian coffee growers are overwhelmingly small scale. Farmers in Peru usually process their coffee on their own farms. Most coffee is Fully washed. Cherry is usually pulped, fermented and dried in the sun on raised beds or drying sheds. Drying greenhouses and parabolic beds are becoming more common as farmers pivot towards specialty markets.
Peru is the largest exporter of organic Arabica coffee globally. With extremely high altitudes and fertile soils, the country’s smallholder farmers also produce some stunning specialty coffees. The warm days and cool nights from their farms' locations at 1,200 to 1,600 meters above sea level, creates ideal conditions for growing dense, sweet beans.