Peru | Oropel 2024

Region: Junin, PeruVariety: Typica, BourbonProcess: WashedAltitude: 1800-2000 maslWe Taste: Strawberry Cream, Guava, Lavender, White Chocolate We've been eagerly awaiting the arrival of this lot ever since tasted the pre-shipment sample back in December. This coffee was jumping out at us on the table, reminding us of summertime berries and cream, ripe tropical fruit, and sweet candied florals. We hadn't tasted coffee from this lesser-known region in Peru before this year, but with Oropel and San Juan Pueblo Libre on our menu, our attention has absolutely been captured. Oropel is a community lot made up from 5 producers in the Junin region of Peru. Oftentimes, community lots are assumed to be large conglomerations of hundreds of producers' coffees, with little transparency about who is contributing to the final coffee. While this can be true, they can also be really small lots such as this one with detailed records about whose coffees they contain. We work to source lots like San Juan P