Peru - Estrellas de Cajamarca | Washed - Archived

Origin

• 🇵🇪 Peru· Cajamarca

Tasting notes

Character

• Clean
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Estrellas de Cajamarca is a new project from our friends at Swift coffee. Created and sourced to provide a comfortable profile at a fair price it's a versatile coffee that has the hallmark sweetness and cocoa flavours of the region with the liveliness and fruit that comes from careful selection. Hopefully this is the first of many years we can bring this coffee in. Cajamarca’s coffee industry is dependent on numerous smallholdersSmallholderA 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.. That is why you find many farms between 2 and 3 hectares of land. Large estates are rare. On the farm, you find small pulpers and several home-built parabolic dryers. In some cases, farmers dry parchment alongside the road. High-yield varieties like Catimor, CatuaiCatuaíA Brazilian cross of Mundo Novo and Caturra: short, productive, storm-resistant. Sweet, mild, dependable — everywhere in Brazil and Central America., and Mundo Novo are popular among growers. Besides these sturdier varieties, you will find others like BourbonBourbonOne of the two foundational arabica varieties (with Typica), named after Île Bourbon (Réunion). Sweet, balanced, caramel-leaning; parent of countless modern cultivars., TypicaTypicaThe oldest cultivated arabica lineage, ancestor of most Latin American coffee. Low yield, clean and sweet cup; the baseline other varieties are measured against. (which locals call ‘National’), and CaturraCaturraA natural dwarf mutation of Bourbon found in Brazil: compact plants, easier picking, bright and clean cup. A workhorse across Latin America.. Recommendation: Rest time: 2-3 weeks Espresso: 1:2-1:2.3, 95c, 30s Filter: 1:16-1:17, 93-95c