Peru
Pedro Garcia

Cajamarca | Caturra, Catuaí, Pache | 1700 masl | Washed

Complex and floral, this washed lot opens with strawberry and chamomile and settles into mixed berries and baker’s chocolate.

Pedro Garcia Diaz owns two hectares in the village of San Francisco, in the San José del Alto district of Peru’s Cajamarca region, an area with enormous potential for quality coffee. Pedro lives in the city while his family works the farm day to day, and he returns for the harvest. His plot is planted to Caturra, Catuaí, and Pache, producing about 60 exportable bags a year. Cherries are selectively picked, fermented for 36 hours, washed, and dried on tarpaulin mats for two weeks. San José del Alto is a four-hour drive from Jaén, and coffees from this pocket of Cajamarca have a distinct cup profile, full of complexity and bursting with floral notes.