Perú- Cajamarca- Elmer Gonzales

ORIGIN:  Santo Tomas, Cajamarca

ROAST LEVEL: Medium 

TASTING NOTES: Brown sugar, dark cocoa powder, hints of honey granola, and raisin.

FARM NOTES: Elmer Mego Gonzales' 1950-meter farm is located in Santo Tomas, Cajamarca. He's growing a mix of cultivars, including Bourbon, Caturra, Catuaí and Catimor. This is a fully washed coffee, wet processed at home, and then dried on tarpaulin patios. Elmer delivers his coffee as parchment (the green bean with the thin parchment layer still intact) to a warehouse in Cajamarca where it is graded, and in this case, separated out to sell as a single-farmer feature. (Some of the lower grades are bulked into regional blends). The group who set up this buying operation register all the farmers they buy from in order to help isolate different quality tiers.

PROCESSING:  Wet Process (Washed)

DRYING METHOD: Patio Sun-Dried

ELEVATION: 1950 meter

CULTIVAR: Bourbon, Caturra, Catuai, Catimor