Peru | Cleber Córdoba

Origin

• 🇵🇪 Peru

Tasting notes

Character

• Clean
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After a few years of plentiful Peru single originSingle originCoffee from one traceable place — a country at the loosest, a single farm or lot at the strictest — rather than a blend of sources. options, we've gone through a quieter patch recently. That's until this coffee sample from Cleber Córdoba arrived on our cuppingCuppingThe standardized tasting ritual — coarse grounds steeped in hot water, crust broken, slurped from a spoon — used to score and compare coffees. table, full of sweetness and elegance. Cleber's story echoes the story of many young producers we source from: after years of learning traditional best practices passed down through the family, Cleber became aware of the emerging speciality coffee market and the opportunities available to those producers brave enough to experiment with the classical cultivation and processing methods handed down through the generations. This approach is not as simple as it sounds - experimenting with these methods can produce fantastic coffee lots like this one but can also ruin lots and make them difficult or impossible to sell. In addition to processing, Cleber has been trying to develop some prized varieties such as GeishaGesha (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. and Obata, but this coffee is an example of more traditional varieties, CaturraCaturraA natural dwarf mutation of Bourbon found in Brazil: compact plants, easier picking, bright and clean cup. A workhorse across Latin America. and BourbonBourbonOne of the two foundational arabica varieties (with Typica), named after Île Bourbon (Réunion). Sweet, balanced, caramel-leaning; parent of countless modern cultivars., done really well. This coffee is fermented without oxygen for 48 hours in advance of being 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., but while fermentation can often lead to wild and wacky results, in this case, subtlety is the name of the game. Everything about this coffee is refined and understated and the end result is a complex but also classic cup celebrating Peruvian coffee.