Notes: Blackberry Jam, Strawberry
Hale Taste Scale: 8 - Bright and Fruity
Varietals: Bourbon, Caturra, Pache, Typica, Catimor
Elevation: 1,600 - 1,800 masl
Process: Natural/Dry Processed
Region: Amazonas
More about El Palto:
This 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 organizations' 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 comprises Typica, Paches Typica, Pache, Caturra, and Bourbon varieties and was grown at a range of 1600-1800 masl.
Growing Coffee in Peru 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 range, 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.
