La Avanzada

Bolivia: Jeivert Panuni, Honey Raspberry , blackberry and redcurrant layer up in the cup like a summer berry medley, bright and juicy from the first sip, before shifting to a sweet cooked apple finish. This is the third and final coffee that we’ve released from Jeivert’s neck of the woods this year and we think that it’s a truly delicious Bolvian coffee. This particular lot is a Honey processed mix of Catuai, Caturra, and Typica, all grown on Jeivert’s own farm La Avanzada and processed at his mill. Off The Beaten Track The remote, 200-hectare region of Irupana sits in the South Yungas province towards the most westerly edge of Bolivia, nestled among the Andes mountain range that straddles the edge of the country. It’s to the south of Caranavi, the largest coffee-growing region in the country, and boasts a similar verdant (albeit slightly drier), high-altitude terrain that make excellent conditions for growing coffee, reflected in the region’s strong history of coffee farming. Farms in Irupana are small (on average around 5 hectares) and around 1,800 people live locally. We’ve only sourced coffee from the region a handful of times in previous years. It’s common for coffee from more remote areas of Bolivia to be blended lots, often made up of contributions from multiple smallholders, which means we can’t always trace the coffee back to individual farms. Thanks to improved