Maria Estela

Description

Yellow Caturra from Maria Estela’s farm, La Perla, in San Ignacio, Cajamarca. Participating in a close-knit producer group called El Morito, Maria has been experimenting with longer fermentation times with her washed processing this harvest, resulting in a more fruit forward cup profile, reminding us of delicate things like fresh blueberry, white tea, & raw sugar. Maria Estela farms at 1,790-1,850 masl in San Ignacio, Cajamarca, alongside her three kids. She grows Yellow Caturra, Marshell, and Bourbon, and handles all of her post-harvest processing on farm. A natural mutation of Bourbon that causes the plant to grow more compact, discovered in Brazil sometime between 1915 & 1918.This strain of Caturra naturally ripens to yellow.