Coffee Bios
The Asociacion de Mujeres Caficultoras “Los Lirios de Chirinos” is a group of eight women coffee producers in northern Peru who banded together to increase their profits through better quality coffee. The group was started in 2017 by two sisters, Silvia and Nancy Lizana. They are daughters of coffee producers, fourth generation farmers, and country girls at heart.
Eli Roman took part in the 2019 Atipanaku microlot competition and a lot from his farm, El Romerillo, won 9th place.
Felino Sánchez took part in the 2019 Atipanaku microlot competition and a lot from his farm, Manacaraco, won 18th place.
Jose Alvino Tejada Acosta took part in the 2019 Atipanaku microlot competition and a lot from his farm, Finca el Recuerdo, won 17th place.
In addition to the Chonti our Quality Assurance team developed a mark called La Llama. La Llama is a fully washed SHB from the Chanchamayo Valley located in the province of Junin and the region around Chontali This coffee is grown between 1200 to 1400 m and exhibits good acidity, medium body with a very pleasant sweet finish. La Llama can be certified Rainforest Alliance or Organic.
Look to the east and the verdant Amazon basin stretches out before you. Look to the west—mountains of the high Andes grow taller and taller as they disappear into the distance. Coffee from Peru’s Cajamarca region grows at high elevations, meaning it matures slowly and the dense beans reflect this in the complex cup profile.
This complex coffee is grown by 15 members of the Marino family living in the Manantial zone, right at the edge of the Chinchiquilla forest, in the most mountainous region of Chirinos in northern Peru. These organic farms are improving the health of their coffee trees by building organic compost fertilizer plants on their farms. Notes of plum, raisin, almond, tropical fruits, floral, bright acidity.
We started this relationship in 2017 and are very excited to bring in coffees from Cajamarca. We can offer coffees scoring in the mid 80’s are medium bodied, nice acidity with flavors of stone fruit, almonds and honey. They come from a cooperative in the Cajamarca region of the northern highlands of Peru.
