Organic Decaf Peru Cecanor Fair Trade Select Water Process

Experience the exceptional with our Organic Decaf Peru Cecanor — a Fair Trade, Select Water Process standout!

Grown in the clay-loam soils of Cajamarca, Amazonas, and Lambayeque, Peru, this remarkable decaf is fully washed and sun-dried, offering comforting notes of honey,  chocolate and silky caramel. Each sip is cozy yet luxurious, with a smooth, beautifully structured profile. A rich, creamy body and a touch of gentle acidity create a perfectly balanced cup from start to finish.

Enjoy all the flavor, none of the caffeine — and every bit of the excitement.

Peru ~3.9M bags, leading in Organic coffee! A diverse climate that is supportive of agriculture cultivation, Peru produces a ton of coffee and is consistently in the top 10 coffee producing countries in the world. In 2024 it made up 2% of the global production at 3.88 million 60kg bags produced. The top producer of organic coffee in the world, there is ample infrastructure to support organic and fait trade certified coop crop. The cup profile is often sweet and clean but not always the most complex. More and more you see the country with specialized microlots with distinctive profiles. The country has dealt with extremely tumultuous sociopolitical issues due to a highly active terrorist group in the 70’s. Internal consumption of coffee is low and most of the production is exported out of the country.

The Andes Mountain range flows vertically along the Peruvian border, with ample amount of land and a variety of climate to grow coffee with different elevations, soil nutrients and sun exposure. Peru is made up of a wide variety of landscapes, from long beaches to high mountains, from the desert to the largest rainforest. In the north, the second highest mountain rage, the Andes, goes through Cajamarca department and converges with the Amazon, creating complex and diverse orographic and microclimates. Cajamarca’s Inter-Andean valleys have hosted coffee crops for more than 200 years and concentrate almost 43% of the total Peruvian coffee production, not only because of its vast lands but because of an ancient coffee tradition that goes back to the XVIII century, when the first coffee crops were brought in and started to be nurtured by the many generations of producers in the region. Coffee has been part of their lives for so long that their inhabitants’ experiences and learnings are inextricably linked to it.

Socio-political and historical factors matter: colonial legacies, conflict, labor, infrastructure, and domestic consumption patterns all influence quality, price, and traceability.

In 1897, when the Belgian consul in Lima Peru wrote a report that “the coffee of Peru is delicious,” there was every reason to believe he was right. That same year, coffee exports had reached well over 20,000 bags, almost triple the 7,000 bags exported in 1894. But, the turn of the century would prove to be a peak for that generation of Peruvian coffee exports.

By 1913, exports had dropped back down to 9,000 bags. It would have been difficult to imagine on the eve of WWI that, for most of the next 100 years, Peru would be numbered among the top 10 coffee producing countries in the world, and even rise to the number 5 spot a few times. Looking back, it's not only easy to understand why, but easy to imagine increasing success in producing specialty coffee as a leading supplier of organic coffee.

Select Water Process is curated from lots that the team has selected based on cup profile, physical preparation, and potential to express excellently once decaffeinated. During the water process, the green coffee is pre-soaked in water to expand the beans for caffeine extraction. The hydrated green coffee is then introduced to a unique solution of concentrated coffee solubles that draw out the caffeine while minimizing the loss of flavor compounds. Once the caffeine has been removed the green coffee is re-dried and re-bagged for transport, and the extract solution is filtered of its caffeine and recycled to be used again.