#434 | Полуничний джем | Молочний шоколад | Цукати | Вершкове тіло | Оцінка 86
General Info:
Location: Caranavi, Los Yungas
Owner: Various Smallholders
Altitude: 1550 masl
Preparation: Honey
Variety: Caturra, Typica, Catuai
Harvest: Nov – Dec
Shipment: Feb – Mar
About
Manco Kapak is a colony in the Caranavi area of Yungus. The colony is at around 1550 masl and is surrounded by jungle and small coffee farms. After the land reforms in the 1950s, the Bolivian government encouraged people from the Altiplano and La Paz to move down to the tropical agricultural areas to farm coffee by giving them free parcels of land. Manco Kapak was one of the settlements for people from the Altiplano, and therefore many of the coffee producers there are very small – having between 1 and 3 hectares – and practise more traditional organic farming methods. All of the producers in this area have Caturra, Catuai or Typica, which gives the cup profile lots of acidity and complexity.
Since producers in Manco Kapak produce relatively small amounts, they deliver their coffee to the Buena Vista mill in Caranavi together, where it is processed and dried. This allows all of the
producers to reduce their risk as they get paid immediately, and it allows the mill to control the quality of processing to ensure that the producers receive quality premiums later.
This year the producer group decided that they would like to start producing honey and natural processed coffees, since their washed coffee doesn’t always have the same level of complexity
and quality as other colonies in the area. This was the perfect way to elevate cup scores and complexity, and get a higher percentage of their production up to microlot quality
