Coffee Description
This coffee has everything—strong floral aromas, deep sweetness that lingers, and a compelling mix of browning sugar along with apple and stone fruit. Easy to brew, works great as an espresso or with any filter device.
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Light/Medium
Variety
Caturra
Process
Washed
Elevation
1890 masl
Region
Cajamarca
About Alfonzo Rafael Cordova of Peru
Get it while it lasts! Onyx doesn’t expect this small micro-lot to stick around too long. The perfect cupful for waving goodbye to winter and settling firmly into spring, this coffee is grown by Alfonzo Rafael Cordova. His farm, La Primavera, isn’t huge—just 3.5 hectares, but he’s doing big stuff with his coffees there.
Of the flavorful Caturra variety and entirely organic, Alfonso’s coffee is a great example of how Peruvian smallholders are transforming the definition of coffee from their region. He and his neighboring growers are serious about all aspects of producing specialty grade coffee that can compete on the world market. This lot showcases what some think may be the new taste profile for Peruvian coffees--apple/citrus acidity and clean, balanced flavor profiles.
Cajamarca, Peru
Onyx Coffee Lab
Lest the myth perpetuate that specialty coffee does not come from Arkansas, Onyx Coffee Lab is blowing that particular urban legend out of the water while creating a few of their own. Husband-wife owners Jon and Andrea Allen have rapidly taken the coffee world by storm with their combination of art and science.
The magic starts with sourcing, with countless small sample batches from coffee importers and with direct visits to farms around the world. "I know direct trade means a lot of different things to different people, but for us if we don’t put money in the producers hands we won’t call it direct trade," says Jon. Once found, the coffees are carefully roasted in twenty-pound or smaller batches, then shared with the three Onyx cafés and over 150 wholesale customers in thirty states.
Clearly Onyx Coffee Lab knows what they're doing: this northwest Arkansas matrix of coffee know-how routinely cleans house at the U.S. Coffee Championships; Andrea Allen placed first in the 2020 Barista Championship, while Elika Liftee placed first in the 2020 Brewers Cup Championship, and they both went on to the 2021 World Coffee Championships to place in 2nd place for Barista and 3rd place for Brewers Cup. Onyx has been chosen by Architectural Digest as Arkansas' most beautiful coffee shop, garnered multiple Good Food Awards, and been described as the "Best bags of coffee you can buy online" in GQ.
