El Palmo – Peru

Walter Paredes is a passionate and dedicated coffee producer who believes that achieving the best results requires hard work. He and his family share one, big dream that unites them together: to deliver excellent coffee to roasters not only in Peru, but all over the world. Walter is fully committed to producing specialty coffee. By implementing proper farm management practices, he pays extra attention to protecting coffee trees from excessive rainfall and plagues. Walter obtained the organic certification for his coffee production as well.

He joined Aromas del Valle cooperative in 2020. Aromas Del Valle is located in the Cajamarca Region of Northern Peru. They went from being an association to a Cooperative in 2021. The cooperative is fairly small with about 300 members and was established in order to generate greater representation and participation among its members, to provide them with better access to public and private funding, and to develop niche markets and become an active participant in the coffee social movement both at national and international levels.

Coffees are processed as washed, and fermented for 36 hours. Drying takes 8 - 12 days, and then the coffee is stored in Grainpro bags in a fresh and clean room.