It’s a GREAT DAY for coffee!!!!
Welcome to For The Love of Coffee, a weekly blog about all things coffee exclusively for the employees of Vienna Coffee.
This week’s blog will focus on our next superstar coffee in our monthly series of featured coffees, our amazingly rich and smooth Fair Trade Organic Peru Penachi. In addition to featuring this amazing coffee as our regular offering during the month of June, we will also feature its little brother, Fair Trade Organic Peru Decaf, as our featured decaf coffee.
This is the first time we have featured a coffee and also featured its equivalent decaf offering, so I am hopeful that people will try both and we will see an uptick in sales of Peru Decaf because of it.
A bag of carefully picked, processed and packaged Organic Fair Trade Peruvian green coffee at Vienna Coffee Company getting ready for the roaster to become June’s featured coffee!
Our featured coffee comes to us from the CECANOR Cooperative in the Penachi Region of Peru. Here over 800 women from 6 different cooperatives participate in the Cafe’ Feminino program which empowers women coffee farmers. In fact, it was 464 Peruvian women coffee farmers back in 2004 who started the concept for what became Cafe’ Feminino!
Here at Vienna, we carry several coffees that participate in the Cafe’ Feminino Cooperative including our Organic Peru, Organic Sumatra, and Organic Nicaragua offerings. Cafe’ Feminino and its hundreds of participating cooperatives in 9 distinct coffee-growing countries are truly changing the coffee landscape for women in the industry empowering them to control the financials and make decisions that will have a positive effect on their families and communities.
A worker at CECANOR cooperative hand-picking only the ripest coffee cherries for processing.
The tasting notes from the producing farm for this coffee are listed on their information sheet as floral aromas of almond, cashew, and chocolate, with flavors of dark chocolate, bright citrus, and maple syrup.
Sound amazing, right! When cupping this beautiful coffee here in the Vienna Coffee Lab we observe tasting notes of Clementine, Caramel, and Vanilla. This coffee has a lot to give in terms of flavor and aroma and you may pick up on your own flavors as you experience this unique coffee for yourself.
Peru Penachi coffee is harvested during the months of April - September. It is processed using the “washed method” where the fruity pulp is removed from the coffee beans, then soaked in a fermentation tank for up to 24 hours before going through a final rinsing to remove any and all traces of the fruit on the beans. The coffee is then sent to the patios where they will dry out in the sun for several days until the beans reach an approximate moisture content of 10-12%. This method achieves a consistently clean, bright, and flavorful cup.
Beautiful Peruvian coffee in the final stages of drying before being packed and shipped around the globe.
We purchase this delicious coffee through one of our import partners, Organic Products Trading Company (OPTCO) which specializes in sourcing and securing only the highest-quality Organic coffee lots.
Once we receive the coffee here in our warehouse, we roast it as-needed in small batches to ensure only the freshest possible product reaches our customers. When we say that we are passionate about quality, we mean it! I look forward to hearing your feedback next month as we roll out our latest featured coffee in just a few days time.
EVERY day is GREAT day for coffee!!!
Yours Truly,
Your Caffienated Compadre - Matt
