El Campo - Peru
Milk Chocolate | Nectarine | White Grape
Producer: Group of 5 Producers
Country: Peru
Region: Callayuc District, Cutervo Province
Variety: Red & Yellow Caturra, Pache, Catimor
Process: Washed
Altitude: 1800 - 2000 m.a.s.l
We are delighted to present this exemplary coffee from Peru. We're always looking for delicious, approachable coffees like this to bring in to our line up. This coffee stood out to us for its bright, clean acidity along with a medium-high sweetness that provides a round, soft base for a coffee that is accessible but still has a little complexity.
This coffee will be our go-to for espresso and filter in the cafe.
More info from Cultivar, the importer of this coffee:
The northern part of Peru, thanks to the Andes mountain range and its proximity to the equator, has a warm climate, fertile lands and dense vegetation. It is an area with great cultural wealth and full of traditions that the population has managed to preserve up to today. In that northern area, the Cajamarca region stands out for its diversity in geography, ranging from Andean ecosystems to high-altitude forests of great beauty. Cajamarca’s pastures are well known for providing a great environment for cattle to grow and producing delicious dairy products. It is very easy to fall in love with the gastronomy but also with the quality of the coffee here!
The province of Cutervo is known for its beautiful cloud forests, moors and dry forests protected by the Cutervo National Park. Lovers of adventure tourism and trekking would feel great in this environment. This park of more than 82,000 hectares provides an ecosystem that provides food and water to more than 90,000 inhabitants of 7 micro-watersheds in the area. The most important resource is water and thanks to this a large part of the population can grow coffee. Also sugarcane production, rice, fruit trees and cattle for milk production and meat are common agricultural activities in this area. The local population acknowledges that tourist attractions such as the palm forest, cave-exploration and bird watching are beneficial to the community, bringing development and boosting the local economy.
El Campo lot comes from the Callayuc district in the Cutervo province, where cultivation of coffee is recent, especially in the populated centers. Three years ago we started to work with two communities and in a certain way our collaboration started by coincidence. It all began with our search for one specific coffee grower who is called Susana. We tasted her coffee in 2020 and were very impressed. Determined to find her and get in touch, Dreyde and Lisanne of the Cultivar team stepped on the motorcycle and drove 2.5 hours to the Callayuc district while asking people in the area if they knew her and where she could live. And we did find her! Not only was her coffee great again, we also shared the story of our search when we came back to our coffee warehouse in Jaén and our colleague Goti said: “But my husband comes from the neighboring community!” We got very motivated to meet more growers and establish a relationship with them, so Goti’s husband joined us in his community again and introduced us to his family and neighbors. This was a great help in immediately establishing a certain level of trust.
Only in a few weeks time, we received many bags and selected the more consistent scoring coffees for this community lot. We are very pleased that you are becoming part of this collaboration too, by roasting this coffee and creating a new bridge for sharing the stories behind and the unique flavors of this coffee to consumers.
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