Espresso Gran Palomar

Origin

• 🇵🇪 Peru

Tasting notes

Character

• Bold
  50
• Clean
  30

This speciality coffee grows high up in the Andean mountains, where small coffee farmers cultivate it organically. Gran Palomar is the result of our open and friendly co-operation with small coffee farmers from Peru, which started since 2002. The coffee cherries are hand-picked from the coffee bushes, after which they are carefully washedWashed processThe fruit is removed from the seed before drying, usually with fermentation and a water rinse. Tends to give clean, transparent cups where origin character shows clearly. and sun-driedNatural processThe whole cherry is dried with the fruit still on the seed. Gives heavier body and big fruit flavors — think berries and wine — sometimes with a fermenty edge.. Afterwards, the coffee is hand-roasted with passion at our small roastery, in a way that brings forth its nutty and chocolate-like flavour notes plentifully. Producer: Palomar Cooperative Location: Chanchamayo, Peru 1200-1800m asl Bean: CaturraCaturraA natural dwarf mutation of Bourbon found in Brazil: compact plants, easier picking, bright and clean cup. A workhorse across Latin America., Catimor, GeshaGesha (Geisha)A rare, jasmine-and-bergamot scented variety originally from Ethiopia's Gesha forest, made famous by Panama's Hacienda La Esmeralda. Routinely the most expensive coffee at auction. Roast: Dark Certification: Organic Directly traded from Peruvian smallholderSmallholderA farmer growing coffee on a small family plot — often under two hectares. Most of the world's coffee is grown this way, typically pooled at cooperatives or washing stations. farmers since 2003! Can you believe it? 🙂