Lenin Flores (Yellow Caturra) | Cajamarca, Peru
US$22.00
In stock
Producer: Lenin Flores
Variety: Yellow Caturra
Location: Cajamarca, Peru
Harvest: August 2025
Processing: Washed Process
Cup profile: sweet and comforting, with flavours reminiscent of orange jam, soft florals & botanical notes, and grounding praline and nougat.
Yellow Caturra from Lenin Flores’ farm at El Morito in Cajamarca. Lenin acts as the deputy manager for a close-knit network of family and friends at El Morito facilitating the groups efforts. He also farms his own coffee. Lenin’s take on washed processing results in a sweet and comforting cup profile, reminding us of things like orange jam, soft florals, & nougat.
Lenin Flores
Lenin is both a grower and an organizer. He runs QC for El Morito while managing his own diverse plots, one of the highest farms in the group, sitting above 2,000 meters. He’s also the connective tissue between El Morito and the wiser coffee world: fostering relationships with growers abroad, bringing new genetics home, and sharing them across the network.
Yellow Caturra
A natural mutation of Bourbon that causes the plant to grow more compact, discovered in Brazil sometime between 1915 & 1918.This strain of Caturra naturally ripens to yellow.
Processing
Washed process. First, ripe coffee fruits are picked at 18 brix or higher and transferred to airtight tanks to ferment as whole fruit for 36hrs.. Next they are depulped and the mucilage covered seeds continue fermentation for 48hrs.. Once the mucilage has broken down and the ph has dropped, Maria washes the coffee thoroughly, and then transfers the parchment coffee to a shaded solar dryer to dry over 20-25 days.
