Peru Cuyca

The first sip brings milk chocolate—warm and rounded. Then comes caramel, followed by a hint of citrus that keeps everything lively and bright. It’s the kind of coffee you drink in the morning without thinking too much, then find yourself reaching for again at noon without knowing why.

Behind it is a young story. Queromarca is one of the first areas where coffee was grown in the entire Callayuc district—a community of people who, until recently, grew corn and potatoes and raised cattle, and who discovered, at over 2,000 meters above sea level, that their hills have exactly the microclimate exceptional coffee needs. We’re in Cajamarca, in northern Peru: tropical mountain forests, fertile valleys, and breathtaking biodiversity. A place where old crops are being replaced, year after year, by coffee plantations.