Peru El Roble

Tasting Notes:  Dark Chocolate - Cola - Baking Spices - Raisins

El Roble is coffee grown by Nima Juarez Aleydy Yessenia. Nima’s farm is in the La Coipa district, part of the famous San Ignacio province, near Peru’s northern border with Ecuador. Nima has almost 5 hectares total across three combined parcels: El Roble, La Quebrada, and El Mango. She lives on the farm with her husband, Keny Yajalwanca Garcia.  Together they cultivate coffee first and foremost, but also guava, plantains, and livestock like hens and pigs.

The bulk of coffee production in Peru comes from small farms owned and is managed by people who have for many years followed organic farm management practice attuned to their cultural connection with the land. Producers typically cultivate coffee on just a few acres of land intercropped with shade trees, fruits and vegetables. Small producers are often very careful about picking and sorting their cherries prior to depulping, fermenting, washing, and drying the coffee, all on personal equipment and on personal property. While producers design farm management and post-harvest solutions to fit their varying needs, they also need a strong business alliance to bring their coffee to the international market and earn fair prices, regardless if the coffees are blended or sold independently.   

Nima and her husband employ a few pickers during harvest months and oversee all processing themselves on their property. Coffee is depulped with a motorized pulping machine and fermented in a concrete tank. After fermentation is complete, parchment is washed again with clean water and moved to dry on a covered patio.  

Nima and her family pay close attention to the soil and fertilizers used on their farm to make sure they're growing the best product possible.

Like many of our offerings from this country, we worked with Peru-based Origin Coffee Lab to source this offering. Their mission is to improve farming practices to create a lasting impact on the community.

12 oz / 340 g. Whole bean.

Orders placed by 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, Monday, and Wednesday will roast and ship the next day. Thank you!

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