Finca Aladinos has always been popular with our customers. For us, it was our first stand-out “wow!” Peruvian coffee of the decade. A small producer that has coffee processing down to a fine art (in my heavily biased opinion). We import this coffee alongside our Organic Peruvian coffees, sharing a container with some old friends. Sharing containers is great for the environment and also helps one another a little too. The espresso profile is incoming too.
Country: Peru
Farm name: Aladinos
Owners; Aladino Delgado Perez and Rosa Burga Vasquez
Department: Cajamarca
Province: Jaen
District: Chontali
Farm size: 14 Hectares
Altitude farm: 1870-2100 meters above sea level.
Varietals: Caturra and Tabi
Process: Fully washed Drying: Dried in a solar dryer.
Temperature: Approx. 20-25° Celsius during the day and 10-12° Celsius at night
Soils: Loamy clay with an arable layer of 30 to 40 cm deep, presence of gravel, pH neutral, and presence of an abundance of organic matter.
Main Harvest period: Mid-July to Mid-October.
Roast: Filter Roast
Aladino (as in Finca Aladinos) and Rosa. The name of this micro-lot could also be that of a fairytale, and the location of their farm is magical. Only a couple of years ago, Aladino and his father, Urbano Delgado, started to plant the coffee varieties on their farm when they heard that the best specialty coffee producers in the region were growing Caturra and Tabi. In 2002, CENICAFE in Colombia introduced the Tabi cultivar: it is a hybrid of Bourbon, Typica, and Timor. One of the most important attributes is its resistance to coffee leaf rust, but it also displays the good cup quality characteristics of its Bourbon and Typica parents. The fun fact is that ‘Tabi’ means ‘good’ in the Guambiano language, which is spoken by the Guambiano indigenous people.
The farm is simply called ‘Finca Aladinos’ because friends and family who would visit him would say ‘Vamos a la Finca de Aladinos’, ‘Let’s go to Aladino’s farm.’ “And we just keep using that name”, he explains. Aladino then says that he is the second-generation coffee farmer on the land. Previously, a certain part of the farm belonged to his late father. But his father was also the person who gave him a base of knowledge of coffee cultivation. Thanks to that knowledge and his growing passion, he got opportunities that he could never have dreamed of, such as visiting other countries, such as the United States and Japan. But Aladino has not stopped learning, he aims to improve his process every day.
Based on 60-65g per litre
| Aromatics: Sweet, with a promise of juicy fruit| Body: Light | Acidity: Sweet citrus, stone fruit|
On opening, Aladinos starts fulfilling its aromatic promise of sweet, delicate, juicy acidity. The acidity sweetens, and a green tea note emerges, with hints of apricot, brown sugar, and grapefruit.
I have had some great brews out of this in a clever-dripper and a cupping bowl. We bought this back as a filter brew, rather than developing it somewhere between filter and espresso. For me, it’s a better drink here; I hope you agree.
