Coffee: Peru Kovachii
Origin: Cajamarca, Peru
Process: Washed
Roast level: Medium
Notes: Milk chocolate, black cherry, walnut, lime
Description: There's great stuff here—a strong and creamy milk chocolate body with a walnut finish and a faint note of black cherry to make each sip interesting. The acidity is super mild and in the form of lime or lime zest.
Background: Most of the coffee produced in Peru is processed by hand on the producer's farm, and Kovachii is no different. Cherries are harvested, de-pulped, processed and then dried either on patios, drying beds, or on tarps. Farmers from all over Cajamarca bring their finished parchment to either our main warehouse in Jaen or to local buying stations in their communities for evaluation. Samples are taken, the green is evaluated, and the coffee is tasted -- then a price is agreed upon and the coffee is moved into storage. To create Kovachii, the highest-quality selections from these lots collected from smallholders are combined, milled, and prepared for export.
