Peru - Maria Estela La Perla Yellow Caturra | Washed

Origin

• 🇵🇪 Peru· Cajamarca

Tasting notes

Character

• Clean

Maria Estela is a key figure in the El Morito association, farming at 1790 to 1850 masl in the Cajamarca region of northern Peru. She works alongside her three children, cultivating Yellow Caturro, Marshell, and BourbonBourbonOne of the two foundational arabica varieties (with Typica), named after Île Bourbon (Réunion). Sweet, balanced, caramel-leaning; parent of countless modern cultivars., and manages all post-harvest processing on-farm. Two of her children are pursuing medicine, while her son Antony is training in post-harvest techniques to continue the family's coffee work. El Morito, founded in 2022, is a community-based association of 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. who process their coffees independently before consolidating for export, a structure that supports traceability and shared investment in quality. This lot comes from Maria Estela as an individual, traceable farmer, grown at 1790 to 1850 masl and made up of the CaturraCaturraA natural dwarf mutation of Bourbon found in Brazil: compact plants, easier picking, bright and clean cup. A workhorse across Latin America. Amarillo (Yellow Caturra) varietal.