Peru El Palto Natural Organic

COUNTRY: Peru
REGION: Amazonas
FARM: JUMARP Co-op
VARIETY: Caturra, Bourbon
PROCESS: Natural
ELEVATION: 1600-1800 M
CUPPING NOTES: Blackberry, Red Wine, Cocoa

      Peru is made up of a wide variety of landscapes, from long beaches to high mountains, from the desert to the largest rain forest. In the north, the second highest mountain rage, the Andes, goes through Cajamarca department and converges with the Amazon, creating complex and diverse orographies and microclimates. Cajamarca’s inter-Andean valleys have hosted coffee crops for more than 200 years and concentrate almost 43% of the total Peruvian coffee production, not only because of its vast lands but because of an ancient coffee tradition that goes back to the XVIII century, when the first coffee crops were brought in and started to be nurtured by the many generations of producers in the region. Coffee has been part of their lives for so long that their inhabitants’ experiences and learnings are inextricably linked to it.  
   This Organic-certified, natural-processed lot comes from the Asociacion de Productores Cafetaleros Juan Marco El Palto (JUMARP), also known as "El Palto." The cooperative is located in the Amazonian Andes in northern Peru. Founded in 2003 by 35 small farmers, the association now consists of 189 active members with a total area of 549 hectares in production. Women represent 40 of the organization's families, including continual representation on their Board of Directors. The Association's mission is to meet the demand of our buyers in specialty coffee allowing an increase in income for the farmer member and their family. This lot is comprised of Caturra and Bourbon varieties and was grown at an average elevation of 1600-1800 masl.
    In the cup we find expressive fruit notes with a distinct winey fermentation character rounded out by a nice chocolatey finish.