Our primary sourcing is managed by Mark Russell, a British-Peruvian based in the UK. He sources coffee from all across Peru including the Amazonas region where the Laguna Los Condores operate. Mark is our export partner for Peru and he works with his family to export coffee.
This cooperative works exclusively in the Luya Province, part of the the Amazonas Region. It started in 2017 by Eber Sanchez Bustamante and Evelin Caman Aliaga, coffee producers motivated by wanting to be treated better by their buyers and throughout the coffee supply chain in general.
The cooperative has grown leaps and bounds in the last 6 years because of the perseverance of Eber, Evelin and the other 10 founding members. Their rapid growth is also because of the way many coffee producers in the Luya Province have been treated by buyers and their desire for another way has become possible because of Laguna Los Condores
They have 800 members across six coffee growing districts of the Luya province and work on food security, environmental care, reforestation, and personal development of their members.They have a women's committee that produce organic fertiliser and their own brand of roasted coffee.
The cooperative provides training and workshops for all their members and promotes high quality and easily accessible and replicated post harvesting techniques. The coffee is selectively
harvested for ripe cherries only, followed by being pulped and left to ferment in ceramic tanks for 18-22 hours. The coffee is dried under solar dryers at the farm from anywhere to 15-21 days depending on the weather.
The role of Laguna Los Condores for this coffee?
The cooperative ensures that the coffee quality is maintained to a high standard, export quality. They provide many initiatives as a group, hosting workshops in the different districts while also visiting their members at their farm regularly to collect coffee in parchment and support with organic fertilisers and implementing regenerative farming practices. Alongside the usual high standard post-harvest techniques of ceramic tanks and solar dryers, they also install water filter systems that clean the wastewater from the washed coffee process using a root system plant called Vetiver across all of their members' farms. This is one example of how they go above and beyond what is expected and another reason why they have grown to have so many members since 2017.
About the operation of Laguna Los Condores
The cooperative ensures that the coffee quality is maintained to a high standard, export quality. They provide many initiatives as a group, hosting workshops in the different districts while also visiting their members at their farm regularly to collect coffee in parchment and support with organic fertilisers and implementing regenerative farming practices.
Alongside the usual high standard post-harvest techniques of ceramic tanks and solar dryers, they also install water filter systems that clean the wastewater from the washed coffee process using a root system plant called Vetiver across all of their members' farms. This is one example of how they go above and beyond what is expected and another reason why they have grown to have so many members since 2017.
Royalty and Laguna Los Condores
We were introduced to Eber and Evelin through a mutual friend, our colleague Mark Russell,
and now head of source in Peru. He spoke highly of the work that Eber and Evelin has achieved
throughout the Luya province and having sourced coffee from them in 2023 he suggested we connect and develop a relationship.
Laguna Los Condores are all about the community impact. They focus a lot on sustainable practices and more recently, empowering their female members by supporting their roles in the coffee production and creating their own branded roasted coffee line. They seek to consolidate coffee from the Luya Province and have it be recognised as a high quality coffee
province in Peru and across the world. They do this so that their members are represented and compensated accordingly.
NEW ARRIVAL
LOT 47 - AMAZON
Region: Luya, Amazon
Variety: Bourbon, Caturra, Typica
Crop: 24/25
Producer/Farm: Laguna los Condores, Regional
Elevation: 1600-2200
Tasting Notes: Medium body, brown sugar, chocolate, sweer citrus