CAFÉ DEL FUTURO, JAÉN, CAJAMARCA
ARABICA
WASHED
MUNDO NUOVO, BOURBON, CATURRA, CATIMOR
1700 MASL
PROFILE AND PARTNERSHIP
CHOCOLATE, BISCUIT, BLACKBERRY
Espresso Roast / Medium - Dark
This coffee is a temporary like-for-like replacement to our regular Peruvian coffee from the JUMARP Cooperative in Cajamarca. We are expecting their fresh crop to land in the autumn.
This coffee has very much become a firm favourite with our customers since it first landed in our roastery in 2019. This cooperative is certified organic, and we have contributed to planting trees in Peru not far from where we source this coffee from. A smooth and chocolatey espresso roast with just a hint of blackberry in the finish, our Peru Classic Espresso sits between our Brazil and Americas on roast level - a modern twist on the classic espresso taste.
We think all of our coffees taste great no matter how you prepare them, but here are our favourite brew methods for this coffee:
Café del Futuro
This coffee comes from the nearby Asociación Café del Futuro, to which 348 farmers belong. The Asociación was founded in 2007 and stands for high-quality coffees with selected varieties and a strong focus on certified coffee. The farmers grow varieties such as Caturra, Bourbon and Mundo Novo, which flourish well in the region between the provinces of Jaén and San Ignacio. The Asociación supports the farmers in financing drying houses, which allow them to dry their coffee gently and protected from rain. 95% of the producers already use these drying houses. The coffees grow at 1600 to 2000 meter altitude.
HISTORY OF COFFEE IN PERU
Though coffee arrived in Peru relatively early—in the middle of the 1700s—it wasn’t cultivated for commercial export until nearly the 20th century, with increased demand from Europe and the significant decrease in coffee production in Indonesia. British presence and influence in the country in particular helped increase and drive exports: In the early 1900s, the British government took ownership of roughly 2 million hectares of land from the Peruvian government as payment on a defaulted loan, and much of that land became British-owned coffee plantations.
As in many Central and South American countries, as the large European-owned landholdings were sold or redistributed throughout the 20th century, the farms became smaller and more fragmented, offering independence to farmers but also limiting their access to resources and a larger commercial market. Unlike many other countries whose coffee economy is dominated by smallholders, however, Peru lacks the organization or infrastructure to provide economic or technical support to farmers—a hole that outside organizations and certifications have sought to fill. The country has a remarkable number of certified-organic coffees, as well as Fair Trade–, Rainforest Alliance–, and UTZ-certified coffees. Around 30 percent of the country’s smallholders are members of democratic co-ops, which has increased the visibility of coffees from the area, but has done little to bring incredibly high-quality lots into the spotlight.
As of the 2010s, Peru is one of the top producers of Arabica coffee, often ranked fifth in world production and export of Arabica. The remoteness of the coffee farms and the incredibly small size of the average farm has prevented much of the single-farm differentiation that has allowed for microlot development and marketing in other growing regions, but as with everything else in specialty coffee, this is changing quickly as well. The country’s lush highlands and good heirloom varieties offer the potential for growers to beat the obstacles of limited infrastructure and market access, and as production increases, we are more likely to see those types of advancement