Parlor Coffee
Peru Sandia Valley

Puno Province hugs the Andean landscape of Peru’s southeastern edge. On the road to Sandia Valley, barren plains high above the clouds wind down to verdant mountains. Our selection has a classic Puno profile, with flavors of dark chocolate and honey and a brisk, refreshing acidity. Sandia Valley is a municipality in the Puno region of southeastern Peru, not far from Lake Titicaca. Within this massive expanse lie many smaller valleys, each hosting unique communities of coffee-producing smallholder farmers. Much of Sandia Valley grows Bourbon-variety coffee thanks to a replanting project led by the United Nations in the 1980s, lending the landscape’s crops a distinct flavor profile. Typical of the region, our selection presents a deeply sweet, full-bodied coffee with a clean and elegant acidity. Despite the UN’s efforts and our exporting partners’ work in the region, coffee farming continues to dwindle in Sandia Valley. We’re grateful to be able to savor the flavors from this region for another season.