Day 4 Shopping is important

Day 4 of my trip (a little late)

So most of yesterday I cupped, cupped lots of amazing pre shipment coffees for us to make some buying decisions. And don’t get me wrong thats fun, but for me these trips are about meeting people seeing the colour of each others eyes and getting an understanding of the challenges of the producer, and them of what we are doing. So the itinerary was to go see David Vilca an amazing new coffee from last year, and one we want to build on going forwards for sure and the afternoon to visit loayza. I learnt two very different ways these coffees are put together, but two very special coffees at the same time. So the drive to David Vilca is around 1 hour from Caranarvi in a good 4 x 4, I am sure longer in a not so good mean of transport. When we arrive at the farm we find it all locked up apart from a very friendly dog who is very pleased to see us. We wander around the farm to see ...

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