Peru, La Lucuma

Producer The Chinguel family Farm/Mill La Lucuma Cultivar Marshel Process Natural Location La Coipa, San Ignacio, Cajamarca, Peru Altitude 1,750 masl Harvest October 2025 Expect notes of Blackberry, White Sugar, Orange La Lucuma sits at 1,750 metres in La Coipa, San Ignacio, in Peru's Cajamarca region. The whole Chinguel family works the farm: Don Marcelino handles admin and sales, his wife Lizana leads post-harvest processing, and their sons Franklin and Jhonner oversee picking and quality control. The variety here is their own discovery, a Bourbon mutation that appeared among their trees, which they named Marshel. In 2019 it won Peru's Cup of Excellence. With this natural lot, cherries are hand-sorted, floated and rested for sixteen hours, then dried slowly in a solar drier for over a month. In the cup: tart blackberry, white sugar sweetness and a delicate rose water finish.