PERU - San Antonio - Catuai / Marshel - Natural Process 250g
Our first coffee from Peru!
This is a classic rich praline coffee with notes of mandarin, wafer and almond essence along with the dark chocolate & hazelnuts. An absolute treat.
Enjoy the great flavours black or with milk.
Coffee Details
LOCATION: HUABAL, CAJAMARCA
ALTITUDE: 1700m -1900m
Huabal, in Jaén province (Cajamarca), is a highland district with dozens of smallholder communities scattered along steep ridges and humid valleys. Towns like San Pablo (~1,980 m.a.s.l.) and El Huaco sit in classic Andean coffee terrain: cool nights, frequent rainfall in the wet season (peaking around Nov–Mar), and a marked dry spell from roughly July to September that favours even drying. Farms are typically <2 ha, planted to Caturra, Bourbon and Typica, and most coffees are fully washed, with some producers experimenting with honeys and naturals.
We receive small, day-to-day parchment deliveries from Huabal communities into our Falcon Coffees warehouse in Jaén. Each delivery goes through physical analysis and cupping; once a lot is cupped, we make a same-day price offer and pay by instant bank transfer. Keeping the loop between delivery, evaluation and payment this tight supports cash flow on farm and ensures quality—on both physicals and cup score—sets the price.
Where volumes and profiles align, we assemble single-producer and community lots from Huabal and move quickly to milling and shipment. At higher elevations (1,800–2,000 masl), producers commonly deliver clean, sweet profiles.
Falcon Coffees Peru (FCP) was set up in 2019 to work directly with farmers in the northern producing region. FCP was one of the first exporters in the region to pay quality-differentiated prices at the farm gate level. In 2022 we added exports via producer cooperatives to give buyers more reliable access to third-party certified coffees. We now operate two northern warehouses—Jaén and Moyobamba—with a 20+ person team sourcing and exporting coffee from 500+ farmers and eight cooperatives. Our sustainability team runs farmer training and productivity work alongside sourcing.
On specialty sourcing, we identify interested farmers, run on-farm baseline surveys (captured digitally via a Copera-built app), provide training workshops, and give ongoing agronomy support. We commit to buy from programme farmers and pay premiums over the local price according to the quality delivered.
When working with cooperatives, we do pre-harvest due diligence and cupping calibration, approve samples before delivery and at every ~50-bag tranche, directly monitor milling, analyse and cup processed-lot samples, and typically ship within five days of milling. Most coops are within two hours of our Jaén/Moyobamba offices, enabling quick troubleshooting.
We also run multi-year projects: Falcon Specialty Plus (with responsAbility) to lift cup quality and premiums—showing a +1.32 average score gain, a peak of 88, and 107 producers enrolled to date—and a Soil Health Initiative targeting 600 farmers to improve soils, reduce chemical use, achieve GCP-equivalent certification, and generate farm-level carbon data.