Peru Finca Morales - Rare/Exclusive Filter

Peru Finca Morales - Rare/Exclusive Filter

Delighted to work with Mark and the team at Khipu, bringing in some tasty small lots from Peru!

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• Producers + Mill:

Roiber Becerra is a young, dedicated and high quality coffee producer, he is from the village of Nuevo Belen, in the Lonya Grande District, part of the Utcubamba Province, in the Amazonas Region. He has his farm, Finca Morales, mainly growing Geisha, Marshall and Caturra.

Roiber focuses a lot on the quality of his farm, the soil, the pre and post harvest techniques that lead to the best coffee he can produce. He is currently heavily invested in installing an agroforestry system across his farm and dedicating much of his land to cultivating Geisha.

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• Varieties:

This variety was originally collected from coffee forests in Ethiopia in the 1930s. From there, it was sent to the Lyamungu research station in Tanzania, and then brought to Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE) in Central America in the 1953, where it was logged as accession T2722. It was distributed throughout Panama via CATIE in the 1960s after it had been recognized for tolerance to coffee leaf rust. However, the plant's branches were brittle and not favored by farmers so it was not widely planted. The coffee came to prominence in 2005 when the Peterson family of Boquete, Panama, entered it into the "Best of Panama" competition and auction. It received exceptionally high marks and broke the then-record for green coffee auction prices, selling for over $20/pound.There is significant confusion about Geisha because there are multiple genetically distinct plant types that have been referred to as Geisha, many of which share similar geographic origins in Ethiopia. Recent genetic diversity analyses conducted by World Coffee Research confirm that Panamanian Geisha descendent from T2722 is distinct and uniform. It is associated with extremely high cup quality when the plants are managed well at high altitude, and is known for its delicate floral, jasmine, and peach-like aromas.The spellings Geisha and Gesha are often used interchangeably, relating to the fact that there is no set translation from the dialects of Ethiopia to English.

The coffee was first recorded in germplasm records with the spelling “Geisha,” and coffee researchers and germplasm banks have mostly maintained that spelling over many decades, leading that spelling to be promoted and used first in the coffee industry. The coffee was originally collected in Ethiopia in a region close to a mountain whose name is most commonly rendered in English as Gesha. Consequently, many in the coffee industry have preferred to rescue that spelling. (source World coffee research)

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• Process:

The fermentation is done according to the weather, if it’s a little rainy 75 or 76 hours and if it’s very sunny then 68 to 70 hours, but usually 72 hours. This first step is done in cherry, in timbos (plastic tubs), sealed without oxygen.

After the fermentation, the cherries are taken to the solar dryers where they dry for a minimum of 30 days, during this period they are constantly being monitored and moved to different levels within the solar dryer according to the moisture levels. The coffee finishes drying once the 11 - 11.5% moisture levels is reached

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• Region: Nuevo Belen, Lonya Grande, Utcumbamba
• Producer: Roiber Becerra
• Importer: Khipu
• Price (green ex Shipping): £25p kg

• Varieties: Gesha
• Process: Natural Process
• Altitude: 1900 masl
• Amount Bought: 30kg

• Tasting:  Tropical, Fruity, High sweetness, Complex
• Flavours like: Dried Mango, Black grape, Dark chocolate