Tasting notes: Medium bodied and balanced with chocolate, toffee, nougat, fig, strawberry, and black tea.

Price: 16 oz bag - $20.00
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    About This Coffee

    This smallholder lot comes from the Gallito de las Rocas collective, in the La Copia district of Cajamarca in Peru. 

    The Gallito de las Rocas collective was founded in April 2012 by 260 coffee growers. They are currently 279 members, with a total of 570 hectares of coffee with varieties including Bourbon, Catimor, Catuai, Caturra, Pache, and Typica.

    Their production areas are located in San Ignacio, Cajamarca, in northern Peru at an altitude around 1,800 meters above sea level. Their name honors the Gallito de las Rocas national bird that lives in the buffer zone of the Tabaconas Namballe National Sanctuary.

    Their coffee is planted in the Namballe - San Ignacio community, located between the Blanco and Tabaconas rivers and High Forest; a zone of mountainous, rainy and cloudy forests. The high altitude creates optimal conditions for a slow and harmonious maturation of the bean.

    Producers combine their cultivation with the planting of native shade trees such as Pine, Romerillo, Laurel, Shaina, Eucalyptus, Huaba, Laricaro and other products such as citrus and fruit in a mixed production system.

    History of Coffee in Peru

    In 1897 when the Belgian consul in Lima Peru wrote a report that “the coffee of Peru is delicious,” there was every reason to believe he was right. That same year, coffee exports had reached well over 20,000 bags, almost triple the 7,000 bags exported in 1894. But the turn of the century would prove to be a peak for that generation of Peruvian coffee exports. By 1913, exports had dropped back down to 9,000 bags. It would have been difficult to imagine on the eve of WWI that for most of the next 100 years Peru would be numbered among the top 10 coffee producing countries in the world, and even rise to the number 5 spot a few times. Looking back, it's not only easy to understand why, but easy to imagine increasing success in producing specialty coffee as a leading supplier of organic coffee.

    Growing Coffee in Peru

    Peru is made up of a wide variety of landscapes, from long beaches to high mountains, from the desert to the largest rain forest. In the north, the second highest mountain rage, the Andes, goes through Cajamarca department and converges with the Amazon, creating complex and diverse orographies and microclimates. Cajamarca’s inter-Andean valleys have hosted coffee crops for more than 200 years and concentrate almost 43% of the total Peruvian coffee production, not only because of its vast lands but because of an ancient coffee tradition that goes back to the XVIII century, when the first coffee crops were brought in and started to be nurtured by the many generations of producers in the region. Coffee has been part of their lives for so long that their inhabitants’ experiences and learnings are inextricably linked to it.

    As an origin, Peru has all the conditions necessary to produce world-class coffee: high elevation, prominence of good varieties like Typica, Bourbon, and Caturra, and a quality-focused movement among smallholder growers, especially in cooperatives utilizing organic husbandry. It's all very encouraging for the future of specialty coffee in Peru.



    Country: Peru 

    Region: San José del Alto district, Jaen province, Cajamarca

    Farm: Gallito de las Rocas collective

    Elevation: 1500 - 1900 MASL

    Variety: Bourbon, Catimor, Catuai, Caturra, Pache, Typica

    Processing: Washed


    Tasting notes: Medium bodied and balanced with chocolate, toffee, nougat, fig, strawberry, and black tea.

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