
Finca El Eucalipto · Peru 🇵🇪
One farmer, one farm
Most coffee is a mix of hundreds of farms. This bag has one name on it: Richard Cotrina, who grows it on his farm El Eucalipto, high in the Peruvian Andes.
IPeru, under the cloud forest
Peruvian coffee grows on the eastern slopes of the Andes, where the mountains drop towards the Amazon: small family farms, often only two or three hectares, between banana trees and shade trees, with cloud and rain most afternoons. Nearly all of it is picked by hand and processed on the farm itself.
IIBourbon
Bourbon is one of the two great "mother" varieties of arabica. It is named after the island of Bourbon, today's Réunion in the Indian Ocean, where French missionaries planted coffee from Yemen in the early 18th century. It gives less fruit per tree than modern varieties, and better coffee: sweet, clean and balanced. That is why careful growers keep planting it.
IIIWashed on the farm
At El Eucalipto the cherries are pulped on the day they are picked, the beans ferment in tanks, are washed in clean water and dried slowly. Washing gives the clean, transparent cup where you can pick out each note: blueberry, lemon, peach. We roast this lot in small batches in Neusiedl am See and keep the roast light enough for the fruit to stay bright.