Edwin & Luz Perú

A new coffee from Peru for us at the Mistral Roastery. Edwin & Luz are a husband and wife team with a farm in the Huancayo area that for the last two years have made it to the national selection for the cup of excellence competition. The aroma of the coffee is full of plums, stone fruits and chocolate and in the cup this changes to a very toffee like flavour with an aftertaste of plums. As espresso it is especially creamy and full bodied and as a filter it also achieves a very nice clean profile with a subtle cherry and plum taste. We think this is a great all rounder coffee which is very much a premium speciality coffee but at the same time really adapting to all taste preferences.

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(Edwin on his farm above) Huancayo is not the usual coffee growing area in Peru especially as it is such a remote place. Indeed, on the way to the farms in Valle Pauran you would pass the typical Andes landscapes; cold, windy mountain peaks with hardly any vegetation. You’d see people with woollen mantles and socks, wearing their hats and walking with their herd of sheep and goats. You’d even see a mountain peak with snow in the mountain range in front of you. The desolate plains slowly turn into green and lush hills where coffee grows, still at the staggering altitude of 2200-2400 meters above sea level.  

Process: Edwin and his wife Luz first select the ripest cherries before depulping and placing them in a big open tank. They leave them in there for 48 hours to encourage the breakdown of the fruit and enhancing sweetness while checking every few hours the temperature doesn’t go up and also regularly mixing. After those 48 hours they wash all of them and place them in drying elevated beds until they reach 11% humidity.

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