Peru Don Flores - Wholesale

Origin

• 🇵🇪 Peru

Tasting notes

Character

• Clean
  30
• Comforting
  20

We Taste: black cherry - peach - caramel - dark chocolate Medium Roast DOWNLOAD info sheets DOWNLOAD shelf tags Please submit orders by 3:00 p.m. central time on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday for roast and ship on the following business day. Thank you! DON FLORES AND EL MORITO: REPRESENTING LEADERSHIP AND QUALITY IN NORTHERN PERU COFFEE Lenin Flores is both a grower and the quality assurance lead of El Morito, a collective of more than 150 independent small-holder producers. El Morito started as a family company, but formalized as an association in 2022 and now serves to assist producers with aggregation and export while encouraging autonomy in processing. Of El Morito’s producers, Lenin’s is one of the highest, located at over 2000 masl. With a passion for fostering relationships with coffee producers across the world, he has been able to bring new varieties to the area, including wush wush and pink bourbonBourbonOne of the two foundational arabica varieties (with Typica), named after Île Bourbon (Réunion). Sweet, balanced, caramel-leaning; parent of countless modern cultivars.. This particulate Don Flores lot is the varietyVariety (cultivar)The botanical subtype of the coffee plant — Gesha, Bourbon, SL28 — analogous to grape varieties in wine. A major driver of cup character alongside origin and process. known as yellow caturraCaturraA natural dwarf mutation of Bourbon found in Brazil: compact plants, easier picking, bright and clean cup. A workhorse across Latin America.. Standard red caturra is common, but occasionally a mutation results in yellow fruit. This coffee really blew us away, with so many layers of stonefruit. In our brews and cuppings we notice articulate fresh peach and cherry notes, morphing into notes more reminiscent of fancy Luxardo cherries and summery peach cobbler. These vibrant notes point to quality and clean processing. 12 oz / 340 g. Whole bean.