Product Details
La Coipa
Cup profile and tasting notes
Orangey fruit (zest), tomato, cane sugar. Super sweet and well balanced. Medium body and finish.
| Coffee | La Coipa |
| Farm | 250 smallholders farmers |
| Variety | Bourbon / Typica |
| Process | Washed |
| Altitude | 1200-1900 masl |
| Owner | 250 smallholder farmers |
| City/Town | San Ignacio |
| Region | Cajamarca |
| Country | Peru |
| Certification | Grown with natural soil conditioners |
Reviews
Average rating
We keep ordering this smooth and rounded coffee. My wife prefers it to the Columbian Inga Mystique Nariño but they're both good.
Absolutely love this coffee, it has been my regular order for ages. I make it as espresso or Americano with or without milk. I find it beautifully balanced and with the chocolate aftertaste I love in great coffee.
This is my regular order, perfect for drinking in the office. I use a Cafetiere, and this is a great choice for all-day drinking
First time I tried Peruvian coffee and I was not disappointed. I will buy again.
This is my go to, general all-rounder bean. Well balanced, no acidity or bitter aftertaste. Recommended.
Delivery
Delivery
Our Delivery Policy
Where do we deliver?
We would deliver to Mars if we could – to reach the whole of the universe with good coffee, but it is not that simple – so for now we deliver to:
UK: Channel Islands, Isle of Man, British Forces Post Office.
Europe: Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
How long will it take?
We do not work at weekends so the term working day means Monday to Friday. If you place an order on the weekend it will not be sent out until Monday.
All orders placed before 13:00hrs 'normally' go out the same day. We do not guarantee orders go out the same day as ordered.
Royal Mail - You can order up to 2kg (7 x 250g bags) using Royal Mail first or second class - orders over 2kg will be sent using Interlink Next Day
UK Mail Next Day - using this service you can order up to 10kg (38 x 250g bags) will ensure your order gets to you the next working day once the order is despatched from the roastery.
If you use this service you maybe required to sign for the delivery unless you elect to take responsibility for loss if left in a safe place. You will receive an email update from UKMail with a one hour delivery window and using the consignment number you track your order.
How do we keep you updated as to the status of your order.
Once you have placed your order you will receive 2 status updates - they will be:
Order confirmation – this means we have received your order and the coffee is yet to be roasted.
Shipped confirmation – this means your order has left our roastery by your chosen method.
Do we meet our delivery deadlines?
We try our best to meet the delivery deadline quoted, but on the odd occasion a parcel can be delayed due to reasons that are out of our control.
Why don't we offer free postage?
Nothing is free in life. We know you all love free postage and sometimes we do offer it as part of a promotion, but it is our policy to charge for postage. We have considered offering free postage but the costs would have to be absorbed elsewhere by you the customer. We don’t hide our postage costs.
Missing, Damaged or Incorrect Orders
We try very hard to ensure you receive your order in pristine condition. If you do not receive all your products or in the unlikely event that a product arrives damaged, please contact us via the email address within the 'contact us' section of the website.
Please note: Royal Mail does not class an international shipment as lost or missing for 28 working days unfortunately we can not take any action until this time has passed. During that time we recommend that you ask your local sorting office / post office if they've tried to deliver (even if they haven't left a card) and ask your neighbours if your order has been left with them. You should also check that the delivery address you gave us is correct, this can be found on your shipping confirmation email. If your delivery still hasn't arrived after 14 working days and you have performed the above steps then please email us.
Change of Mind, Address and Cancellations
You can cancel your purchase at any time either before or up to 7 working days* following the day you receive the goods by emailing us at the address shown in the 'contact us' section of the website.
Your product must be complete and in 'as new' condition e.g. if you have opened the postal packet to examine the product you must have done so without damaging or marking the product or packaging. It must not have been used and it must have the heat seal still in place. It should be returned with the original postal packet and packing note you received with it.
Please note that orders that have been ground to order (e.g - not whole roasted beans) may be exempt from our usual returns policy, as these represent a customised special order item. Any 'Free Gifts' received with the product must also be returned. Coffee Real will not refund the cost of postage incurred in returning a item.
If you follow the steps above you will receive a full refund of the product price and any delivery charge paid.
We cannot cancel your purchase when:
The seal has been broken on any products, or the goods were a special order to your specification.
To qualify for a refund or exchange the product must be:
In otherwise "as new" condition; and complete with any free gifts offered with it and, if possible, the original box and packaging.
This promise does not cover faults caused by accident, neglect, misuse or normal wear and tear.
If you have a coffee subscription with us please note that if you change your address and/or product profile in your account settings after the purchase date this will not update your current order, only future orders and thus you will need to notify us by email of any changes you wish to make.
Additional Information
This coffee is grown in and around the fertile area of La Coipa, Cajamarca, near the town of San Ignacio in the southern highlands.
The aim was to find a market for their coffees, with a focus on both quality and sustainable relationships with partners. They constructed a mill and a cupping lab in the town of San Ignacio at 1300 masl, where the climate is cool and less humid, making it ideal for storing coffee and preserving quality.
Lorenzo Cruz, the co-op manager, has been working to improve coffee quality through cupping every producer’s lots separately and mapping the areas which produce the highest scores. Through this mapping, they are able to help pinpoint areas with ideal growing conditions, and producers that are processing and drying their coffee well.
There are now 250 farmer members, who are divided into three areas, in three different valleys. Farms sit between 1500 masl and 2000 masl and each is between 1 and 5 hectare. Many of the producers have numerous parcels of land separated by protected forest.
Much of the coffee grown is still old Typica, but more producers are starting to plant rust resistant varietals like Catimor and Castillo. UNAFECOOP is organic certified and is committed to making a sustainable future for organic farming in the region, after crops were decimated in previous years by leaf rust. They have responded by providing seeds of resistant, high yielding varietals and training farmers in good agricultural practices.
Each producer has their own small wet mill, with a depulper and concrete fermentation tank. Ripe cherries are hand-picked, pulped and dry fermented overnight for 12-18 hours.
The coffee is then washed to remove the mucilage and moved to covered drying beds, where it dries for between 10 and 14 days. Once dried to less the 12% moisture content, the farmer will deliver the parchment to the UNAFECOOP mill in San Ignacio, where the yield will be calculated and the producer receives partial payment.
Lorenzo and his team then cup the coffee and do a full assessment on each lot delivered, and categorise them into a certain quality band along and attributed pricing range.
The parchment of high cupping lots is packed into Ecotact bags immediately to preserve the quality and prevent reabsorption of moisture from the air.
