Coffee Description
Rancho Carmen is a coffee from the Zamora Chinchipe region of Ecuador. It is bright and juicy with a dense sweetness with tasting notes of pear, clementine, and date. Drinking this coffee will be reminiscent to sitting on a patio at sunset, sharing an orange sorbet with friends.
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Light
Variety
Typica
Process
Washed
Elevation
1800 masl
Region
Zamora Chinchipe
About Small Scale Farmers of Ecuador
Among the mountain forests of Ecuador, near the border with Peru, you can find a group of small-scale producers who are committed to deliver coffee of the highest quality. They can deliver a coffee with a balanced and vivid cup quality. In the canton of Chinchipe, located at the south of the Province of Zamora, it is situated a coffee coop called ACRIM. This region is considered one of the richest in biodiversity as it’s very proximate to the Amazon Rainforest, famous for its exotic flowers and native birds, where you can find the most unique species of flora and fauna. Inhabitants of the region work towards protecting the environment as agriculture is their main income. In this region, you can find beautiful nature and species and there is a special indigenous culture due to the old presence of the Inca ethnic group. Coffee from Rancho Carmen is grown in a very small community located in the region of Chinchipe, a community where people demonstrate to be strong and always united.
Zamora Chinchipe, Ecuador
Peixoto Coffee
Peixoto (pronounced “Pay-Show-Tow”) doesn’t just buy coffees directly, transparently and sustainably. Peixoto are the coffee FARMERS who produce it.
Owner Julia Peixoto was born and raised in a coffee farming-family in Southern Brazil watching her father and relatives give their lives to produce the best coffees they could but, when it was time to sell those coffees, they were at the mercy of the ups and (mostly) downs of the commodities market. Julia wanted to do better for her family and farmers in her region, changing the equity of the coffee trading game from the middleman to the farmers, who bear the brunt of the risks involved in farming and harvesting coffee. Julia and her husband Jeff left their promising corporate careers to start Peixoto Coffee in Arizona in 2015 to produce, import, roast, and bring to the market coffees farmed at their own family-farm, challenging the status-quo of the market and the traditional profiles expected of Brazilian coffees.
Peixoto Coffee is today one of less than a handful of roasters who have achieved complete vertical integration in their supply chain, connecting where the coffees are farmed to where the coffees are consumed. That means more money in the hands of the producers, and a higher quality coffee in the hands of the consumer. Peixoto Coffee brings exciting, complex, and uniquely experimental lots of coffees directly from its own farm and other farmers, whether in Brazil or other origins, they work to develop close and sustainable relationships with.
