Peru | Cafe Garmas | Bourbon | Washed

Origin

• 🇵🇪 Peru· Cajamarca

Tasting notes

Character

• Clean
  30

Region: El Huabo , San Ignacio, Cajamarca Elevation: 1755 masl About: High in the remote hills near the Ecuadorian border—over 40 hours from Lima by road—Esperanza Armijos and Maximiliano García have carved out a life and a legacy. After 15 years working with Peru’s renowned Cenfrocafe cooperative, they left to pursue their dream: building something of their own. In 2018, they founded Café Garmas , a name that fuses their surnames and reflects their deep, equal partnership. Everything they do—planting, harvesting, processing—is shared work. Their farm is a family affair, rooted in tradition and driven by vision. The land they farm is hard-won and breathtaking, a place of arid heat and high elevation that produces coffees with rare, vivid character. Here, they grow a mix of prized varieties—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., Parainema , Yellow CaturraCaturraA natural dwarf mutation of Bourbon found in Brazil: compact plants, easier picking, bright and clean cup. A workhorse across Latin America. , and the BourbonBourbonOne of the two foundational arabica varieties (with Typica), named after Île Bourbon (Réunion). Sweet, balanced, caramel-leaning; parent of countless modern cultivars. in this lot. Despite the distance and difficulty, buyers make the journey because the results are worth it: Café Garmas consistently produces coffees scoring 86+—a testament not just to their terroirTerroirBorrowed from wine: the way a place — soil, altitude, climate, even neighboring crops — expresses itself in the cup, independent of variety and process., but to the skill, care, and quiet determination of two people shaping a future together, bean by bean.