Elzer García Ticlahuanca - Peru

Traditional Washed, Caturra, Lightest Roaster Influence - Best for Filter/Pourover/Turbo Espresso
Extremely high altitude farm
3 key notes: [Clementine, Muscat Grape, Panela]

We have a philosophy for roasting. That there's the platonic ideal form of a coffee's flavour expression (for each individual preference) - and that roasting can only ever reveal an imperfect version of that. That we as roasters can only ever make a coffee worse, never better than that perfect ideal - and so our goal is to minimise that gap, striving for our best version of it. 

We'd like to draw a comparison of this lot to another favourite of ours - Huehuetenango in Guatemala, where similar cool temperatures at altitude allow extended cool temp ferments. Sometimes, when travelling in Guat at the end of harvest, or receiving very very fresh offers right off the bed- you will try coffees that are open too fast. That won't travel & land well - but have such incredible, beautiful flavours, sweetness and acidity, they're truly special. 

This coffee is so reminiscent of that, but stable, and here - landed - reminding us of those coffees. This coffee is the platonic ideal of a washed Caturra
Grown under shade at a stunning 2400 MASL in Jaén, this is a peak coffee for us - delicious and with minimal intervention needed, absolutely sessionable, we could (and are) guzzle this by the mug.

We’re tasting: 
Sweet buttery aromatics reminding us of freshly baked apple crumble. In the cup it's beautifully sweet + plush - with clementine juice aromatics and acidity, white muscat grape, a buttery pastry note that reminds of vanilla danish pastries, with gentle hints of stonefruit. As it cools the sweetness reminds us of panela (raw sugar), and there's a long stewed apple note in the finish.