La Union - Peru

Roasters notes:

A sweet and inviting coffee, easy to please everyone with its toffee notes and velvety body.

Characteristics:

Toffee & Creamy

Technical Details:

Tasting notes:Toffee, Green Apple, Fresh Herbs And Velvety Body.

Producer/Farm: Elevi Rufasto

Country: Peru
Region: Cajamarca

Elevation: 1700 mt
Process: Washed
Variety: Caturra & Typica

Harvest: 2021 - Selective picking
Period: 
Roasting profile: Omni roast

The story behind:

Elevi Perez Rufasto owns two hectares of land in the village of Nueva Union in San Jose del Alto, at an altitude that range between 1700 and 1800 meter above sea level, where he started growing coffee 20 years ago.

Rufasto picks and processes his coffee himself, with some help from family and paid workers during the peak month of the harvest.

Once picked coffee is washed and floated before being pulped and fermented for 48 hours, until the mucilage comes off easily. Once the wet parchment is ready for drying it got laid out on raised beds on purposely built drying tent for 14 days.

After that the parchment is stored in plastic bags and placed in the storage space on the farm on pallets, where it stays for a month to equalize the humidity before going to roasters in Europe.

This coffee is the true expression of "made by hand", very few hands!