Bolivia: Gregorio & Nancy Palli, Mosto Fermented Washed

Origin

• 🇧🇴 Bolivia

Tasting notes

Character

• Clean
  55
• Bright
  35
• Sweet
  25
• Comforting
  20

Bolivia: Gregorio & Nancy Palli, Mosto Fermented 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. Bright, juicyAcidityThe bright, lively, fruit-like sensation in coffee — praise, not a flaw. Citric sparkle, malic apple-crispness, tartaric wine notes; light roasts preserve more of it. lime and blackcurrant hit first - the kind of vivid fruit clarity you get from mosto fermentation done well. Deep cocoa rounds out the finish, bringing everything into balance. This Bolivian CaturraCaturraA natural dwarf mutation of Bourbon found in Brazil: compact plants, easier picking, bright and clean cup. A workhorse across Latin America. and CatuaiCatuaíA Brazilian cross of Mundo Novo and Caturra: short, productive, storm-resistant. Sweet, mild, dependable — everywhere in Brazil and Central America. coffee is a combination of lots harvested from two neighbouring farms. It was grown by Gregorio Palli and his daughter Nancy, on their farms facing each other over a hillside, before heading to the Agricafe Buena Vista mill to be processed using their Mosto Fermented Washed technique. A Family Story When Gregorio was a young boy, his parents decided to move from their home in the Muñecas province of Bolivia (just north of Lake Titicaca) and travelled to the Caranavi area to provide him a better education. There was no school in their town, the roughly 100km relocation was worth it to give Gregorio a good start in life. Gregorio is now a full-time coffee producer, living on his 12-hectare farm with his wife Daisy and his two youngest children. In his free time, Gregorio enjoys going on walks around town with his kids, swimming in the river, and playing football. He has owned his coffee farm for 35 years now and the little ones love to help their dad out when they can. His brother Julio also runs his own coffee farm nearby. As does his daughter Nancy (one of his two grown-up children from his first marriage) who has graduated from playing on the farm to running her own, and whose coffee we’ve also got here. Clearly the move to Caranavi was a felicitous decision for Abuela y Abuelo Palli! The Best Bolivian Coffee The Caranavi province sits towards the western edge of Bolivia, on the eastern slopes of the Andes mountain range. Caranavi means "high place" in the Aymara language, one of the indigenous languages spoken in Bolivia. Caranavi province is in a transitional zone between the high Andes and the Amazon basin, it’s known for its lush vegetation and has been dubbed the "Coffee Capital of Bol