Organic Single Origin

We're very excited to offer an always-on Organic single-origin coffee - throughout the year we're going to always be offering at least one Organic certified coffee that you can also subscribe to! The coffee we offer in this space will change across the course of the year as different lots come and go, but they'll always be certified as Organic and thoroughly delicious.

This lot comes from Nima Juarez who has 2 farms in the district of La Coipa in Peru, although don’t be fooled into thinking Nima’s a large-scale producer - 1 farm is on a small plot of land above her house (El Roble) and the other (where this coffee is from) is on an equally small plot of land below her house (La Quebrada). El Roble is planted exclusively with Catuai varietal coffee and La Quebrada is planted with Marshell.

As far as varietals go, Marshell likely isn’t one you’ve heard of before as it’s a newly discovered Bourbon-type varietal with a bit of mystery in its background. Its exact origins are unclear – it could be a hybrid that escaped cultivation or a completely wild spontaneous mutation, nobody really knows. It was named after a Peruvian coffee producer called Marcelino who discovered it on his farm, and it’s now gaining attention among coffee growers. It’s known for its robustness and high yield, paired with a sophisticated and refined flavour profile, and performs particularly well in the Cajamarca conditions too.

Nima lives with her husband, 2 children, and dog called Cuy (guinea pig) in a house between her 2 farms, all on a plot totalling just 3 hectares. Being up in the hills of Peru at over 1,700 metres above sea level living on a coffee farm on the side of a very steep hill without mains electricity and other such infrastructure brings a lot of challenges, but Nima and her family have become very self sufficient. They found a natural spring on their farm which provides all their drinking water, as well as helping them water their coffee trees. They grow a range of edible plants and also have a small beehive by the drying tables which has a type of native stingless bee - not only providing them with delicious honey, but also helping pollinate the coffee plants too.

Although Nima has only been producing coffee for a couple of years, she recently invested in her own raised drying beds. This is quite uncommon and a big investment for a coffee producer like Nima who’s not producing a lot of coffee, but Nima is clear that lower quality, commodity coffee production won't provide a future for her family. Great quality coffee can, so she wants to do all she can to ensure her coffee is the very best quality it can be and we hope you’ll agree, it’s delicious!

Sweet red fruits fill the cup - think red grape juice with some cherry jam mixed in - before it swings into light brown sugar for the finish.

• Country: Peru
• Region: La Copia
  
• Farm: La Quebrada
• Farm size: 3 hectares
• Producer: Nima Juarez
• Altitude: 1,700 m.a.s.l.
• Varietal: Marshell
• Processing method: Washed
• Certifications: Organic

Tasting notes: Red grape, cherry jam, brown sugar.

Cup of Excellence Cupping Scores

• Clean cup: (1-8): 6
• Sweetness: (1-8): 7
• Acidity: (1-8): 6.5
• Mouthfeel: (1-8): 6
• Flavour: (1-8): 6.5
• Aftertaste: (1-8): 6
• Balance: (1-8): 6.5
• Overall: (1-8): 6
• Correction: (+36): +36
• Total: (max. 100): 86.5

Roast Information
Medium-dark: A nice steady roast, through first and looking for up to the first pops of second as you finish, no more.