Peru El Cautivo
Price range: $23.00 through $103.00
We have purchasing coffee from Porfirio Correa for the past nine years. HE is a member of the Chirinos cooperative in northern Peru, and grows caturra and catimor at about 1900 meters.
This year’s delivery from Correa’s farm is quite good, as usual. It’s a fastball right over the middle of the plate. In the dry grounds we find toasty sugar browning aromatics, like chocolate chip cookies or vanilla custard, along with a darker sweet component akin to cola, or perhaps fig compote, and a slight red fruit character. It’s a friendly, warming and inviting fragrance. The first sip delivers all that, along with something that might be a little more savory in the red fruit—maybe something like papaya and tamarind. There’s also light chocolate, mild cinnamon, a creamy body with a fair amount of heft, and a balanced but cleansing acidity. Certified organic.
Location: Chirinos, Peru
Elevation: 1850 MASL
Varietal: caturra, typica, catimor
Process: washed, dried on raised beds and patios
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
We have purchasing coffee from Porfirio Correa for the past nine years. HE is a member of the Chirinos cooperative in northern Peru, and grows caturra and catimor at about 1900 meters.
This year’s delivery from Correa’s farm is quite good, as usual. It’s a fastball right over the middle of the plate. In the dry grounds we find toasty sugar browning aromatics, like chocolate chip cookies or vanilla custard, along with a darker sweet component akin to cola, or perhaps fig compote, and a slight red fruit character. It’s a friendly, warming and inviting fragrance. The first sip delivers all that, along with something that might be a little more savory in the red fruit—maybe something like papaya and tamarind. There’s also light chocolate, mild cinnamon, a creamy body with a fair amount of heft, and a balanced but cleansing acidity. Certified organic.
Location: Chirinos, Peru
Elevation: 1850 MASL
Varietal: caturra, typica, catimor
Process: washed, dried on raised beds and patios