Eli Espinoza owns 4 hectares of land spread across the village of Las Pirias in Chirinos, Peru. His farms sit between 1,800 and 2,000 metres above sea level. Some of the parcels of land are planted with Typica coffee trees, others with Caturra and Bourbon varieties (a small section has Geisha).
Eli processes all his coffee at his house, located at 1,800 masl. He came to the area as a young man looking for farm work and started out picking coffee in the village. Eventually he was able to purchase his own land and house and started to produce his own coffee. For this Caturra lot, the coffee cherries were washed and floated before undergoing skin drying under shade for 24 hours. The cherries were then moved to a solar drying tent for 45 days of controlled drying.
