Description
Want to support women in coffee? Ismeria Leon Alarcon harvested and processed this micro-lot on her 2.5-acre farms called La Chirimoya & La Palta located near the community of Santa Teresa in the Cajamarca region. She has her own micro-mill where carefully harvested cherries are fermented for 24 hours, then floated to remove less dense and damaged coffee before depulping.
After depulping the beans covered in mucilage are fermented for another 24 hours and then washed to remove the mucilage. Next the coffee is gently dried on covered raised beds over a period of 5 days. While Ismeria has designed farm management and post-harvest solutions to fit her needs, she also has a strong alliance to bring her coffee to the international market and earn fair prices.
With the help of Aroma del Valle, an organization where she is a member, she has been able to successfully produce micro-lots that are gaining international recognition. Aroma del Valle is an organization established to assist producers access the specialty coffee market. Ismeria and other members of Aroma del Valle are also currently focused on family gardens to cultivate food for their own households. Ismeria also cultivates corn, Yuca and sugarcane that serve as another source of income to support her four children.
Tasting Notes: A nice and clean cup of Peru coffee! Best at the lighter roast points where it will show a decently fruit forward cup of coffee, unique for a washed processed but very tasty. Floral, soft fruit, hints of acidity balanced with a speck of herbal chocolate. Great depth of flavor and well balanced. The fruitiness comes off a bit orangish or grape like, not your traditional red-fruit strawberry tone of a natural processed, a little like a mild red wine almost. Medium roasts bring a more chocolaty cup, less herbal with just hints of a fruitiness, smooth and rich, not as sharp, but also not a fruity. Darker roasts, although tasty, were a shame comparatively. Rougher semi-sweet chocolate tones. Generally Peru coffees hold darker roasts, but this one if for you light to medium roast fans.
Roasting Notes: Beautiful beans, easy to roast. Medium to low chaff and even roasting. Shooting lighter is the way to go, some of the beans may still be a little splotchy in color, this is a good thing assuming you are past the expansion in size. Very tasty all the way up to second crack, but once touching second crack, a far less exotic cup that turns a bit more plain.
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