ESTRELLA DIVINA

AREA SAN IGNACIO

DISTRICT LA COIPA

FINISHED DRYING AUGUST

DRYING TIMES 10-20 days

FERMENTATION ALTITUDE 1600 - 2100 M

FERMENTATION time 13-18 hours

VARIETIES CATURRA / BOURBON / PACHE

UNLESS SPECIFIED, ALL COFFEES ARE FERMENTED OUTDOORS AND SUN DRIED

This specific lot from Estrella Divina was produced by 27 producers. Most of the coffee comes from a small town located in one of the highest areas of La Coipa called Rumipite.

The community was identified as having an excellent cup quality while still having room to improve. Since the coffees of Estrella Divina are still relatively undiscovered, many of these producers sell their parchment to middlemen to be blended into larger lots of coffee. Most of the producers of Estrella Divina produce an average of 12 to 25 bags of coffee per year.

Estrella Divina has great elevation, climate and producers doing generally good farm management and processing practices, and the region’s potential for specialty coffees high. A pretty unique microclimate is created in Estrella Divina when warm air currents from the plains of Rumipite come up the mountainside and mix with cool, fresh air descending from the La Coipa mountains. Most producers in Estrella Divina grow Bourbon, Pache, Caturra and Catuai.

Origin Coffee Lab, started the  project “Estrella Divina” in 2017 and is currently working with around 72 producers to produce the best quality coffees in the region. In the last few years, Origin Coffee Lab has started a new program named Solidario, giving all the producers training, market acces, finance and feedback about quality. For these coffees, the producers are taught how to implement a more controlled fermentation process, and monitor drying time based on hours of sunlight. Future Estrella Divina project priorities are to start planting varieties new to the region such as Bourbon and Yellow Caturra while continuing to improve on fermentation, drying and storage processes.

ESTRELLA DIVINA

La Coipa is one the highest coffee growing region of Cajamarca, Peru, with elevations ranging between 1,600 MASL to 2,100 MASL. It is also well know for the Tabaconas - Namballe Sanctuary. Its clay soils and constant rains make this region complicated, but also great for coffee. In other regions of Cajamarca it is not unusual for farmers to sell coffee in the street market, however in La Coipa this doesn't happen often. Even the smallest producers process their own coffee; to their own standards and criteria. This creates diversity in flavor profiles not often found in other areas of Cajamarca. The small lots from Estrella Divina are delivered to the warehouse in Jaen.