Bourbon by Ciriaco Quispe Mamani in Puno, Peru
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Producer: Ciriaco Quispe Mamani
Origin: Puno, Peru
Cultivar: Bourbon
Processing: Washed
Tasting: plum jam, soft herbals, cacao
Importer: Red Fox
With anchoring demerara sugar, chamomile, along with white grape and thyme complexity, this 100% Bourbon washed lot is cultivated and produced by Ciriaco Quispe Mamani on his family farm in the Sandía Valley in Puno, Peru. From original seedstock brought to this area by the UN in the ’80’s, the strain of this variety reminds us of Bourbon from East Africa.
This is quite a small lot at a single 69kg bag, due (likely) to soaring internal pricing of parchment coffee, and high competition for top quality lots, paired with a politically tumultuous year culminating in the closure of the main roads/ port routes in Peru back in the fall, mere days after this lot left for the USA.
This is something that folks don’t typically talk about, the realities of being a producer or even a buyer in situations that aren’t stable. Fortunately, for us and for Ciriaco and his family, they are safe and sound and we’re so thankful to have his coffee for this most recent harvest year.