La Peña Blanca
Tasting Notes: Chocolate · Lemon · Cream
About This Coffee
Variety: Catimor
Processing: Washed
Origin: Cajamarca, Peru
Producers: Roxana Rafael
Altitude: 1800m
Farm Size: 80 Hectares, 4 in production
Roxana Rafael's farm La Peña Blanca is in the Cajamarca region of Peru, where she lives with her husband and their young child. They farm 4 hectares of catimor plants that are wet-processed and dried on-site under shaded raised beds. They also grow some cassava and corn to eat, but the majority of their land is preserved as forest, which helps keep the biodiversity of the region up, and provides ample shade for the coffee trees.
We're loving how sweet and bright this coffee is - rich tastes of creamy chocolate and some lemon acidity make for a cup that's equal parts mellow and energetic. It's a tough balance to strike, which is why we get so excited when we find delicious coffees like this to share with the club.
Reviews
What Our Members Say
La Pena Blanca
This is another well balanced coffee from Moustache. I enjoyed the immediate citrus pop of the brew, followed by the chocolate bottom. I love it. I usually use a French press grind, but I'm sure...
Randall LaLonde
Good if not special
Enjoyable, drinkable, but not one for which I gotta rush for more.
J. Fox
Too Acidic and Blah for Me
It seems I really like El Limonar and Apricossi thus far in my coffee journey. The other three have been too acidic and upset my stomach. This one was too acidic for me too. I noticed the bean is C...
Steven Gilmer