Ecuador

Hacienda La Papaya Washed

Washed Typica

A floral and delicate washed Typica, shaped by Juan Peña’s meticulous approach

Produced by Juan Peña, an agricultural engineer based in southern Ecuador.

  • Producer
    Juan Peña
  • Coffee expression
    A floral & balanced coffee
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Hacienda La Papaya Collection

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Hacienda La Papaya is one of the most beautiful farms we have visited on our travels, and Juan is one of the most meticulous and intentional producers we have ever worked with. This month you can taste three expressions of Juan’s Typica, each showcasing a different character driven by his expert processing.

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Washed process

The washed process results in a very clean interpretation of Juan’s Typica, with floral jasmine notes backed up by oolong tea and a deep honey sweetness.

We’re excited to continue our collaboration with Juan Peña, owner of Hacienda La Papaya and Cafexporto. Since meeting in Aarhus in 2015, we have purchased many small experimental lots, continuing a conversation through high quality coffee. Over the past two years, Juan has expanded his work, exporting more Hacienda La Papaya coffee to Europe together with us, and starting the CafExporto project, working with farms across Ecuador. We are more than excited to expand our collaboration with Juan, and to share his excellent work with a wider audience. We were able to visit Juan and his team in November 2021, both at the Hacienda and at CafExporto’s base in the nearby city of Cuenca, towards the very end of harvest.

Hacienda La Papaya

Hacienda La Papaya is located just outside the town of Saraguro, in the Loja region of Southern Ecuador. The Hacienda has been in Juan’s family since the end of colonial rule, and is a place that holds great importance for the whole family, having spent their summers there since they were children. Juan began to experiment with coffee here in 2010, and moved to work in coffee full time in 2014 after his rose crop was wiped out by a violent storm in Cuenca. Over the intervening years he has thrown himself into the pursuit of high quality coffee, with a meticulous and scientific approach. This approach, shaped by Juan’s experience in roses and his training as an agricultural engineer, has led to an astronomic rise to high quality and international recognition, over just 7 years. His obsessive experimentation and need for scientific evidence is a cornerstone of his work at each stage, from carefully applied and monitored fertilisation, constant measurement of brix and cherry weight during harvest, innovation in careful fermentation, to the exacting drying process. Juan’s work in each of these fields is truly some of the most meticulous and effective we have seen in our years of travelling for coffee, and we left the Hacienda in awe.

Washed Typica

This hard work and innovation is also clear when tasting Juan’s coffees; top-quality micro-lots, with wildly varying flavour profiles and expressions. Juan mainly grows Typica ‘Mejorado’, the enhanced version of the varietal, first grown on Nestle’s experimental farms in the north of Ecuador. Juan puts much of his success down to the combination of high yield and incredible cup quality that these Mejorado plants provide. The Hacienda is also home to plots of Mejorado’s Nestle sibling Sidra, and a very limited amount of Geisha, while a small plot of Pacamara near the top of the farm is awaiting its first big harvest. This lot is from Juan’s Typica Mejorado trees, processed using a meticulous washed method. The ripe cherries are de-pulped using a Penagos eco-pulper, which also removes about 90% of the mucilage using a mechanical brushing method. This almost mucilage-free parchment is then soaked under water for 15 hours, resulting in very minimal fermentation. The parchment is then dried in Juan’s purpose built drying ‘houses’, designed in collaboration with the University of Cuenca. This results in a very clean interpretation of Juan’s Typica, with floral jasmine notes backed up by oolong tea and a deep honey sweetness.

Technical Data

  • Producer

    Juan Peña
  • Region

    Loja
  • Altitude

    2000 masl
  • Varietal

    Typica
  • Process

    Washed
  • Harvest

    August 2022

Washed Process

The washed process involves completely removing both the cherry and the mucilage from the outside of the parchment with the use of friction, fermentation and water. After being harvested, the coffee cherry is then sliced open by either a metal or a sharp plastic blade.

The two seeds (also known as beans) are pushed out of the cherry, which leaves the seed with mucilage as their outermost layer. It is essential in the washed process that all mucilage is removed from the seed which leaves only the flavour that developed in the cell structure of the seed prior to processing.


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152 2nd Ave

10003 New York

United States

Opening Hours:

Mon - Fri: 7:00 - 18:00

Sat - Sun: 8:00 - 18:00

284 Lafayette St

10012 New York

United States

Opening Hours:

Mon - Fri: 7:00 - 18:00

Sat - Sun: 8:00 - 18:00

Graven 20

8000 Aarhus C

Denmark

Opening Hours:

Mon - Sat: 8:00 - 18:00

Sun: 9:00 - 17:00

Borggade 4F

8000 Aarhus C

Denmark

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Mon - Sat: 7:00 - 18:00

Sun: 7:00 - 17:00

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1116 Copenhagen K

Denmark

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Mon - Fri: 8:00 - 18:00

Sat - Sun: 9:00 - 17:00

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2000 Frederiksberg

Denmark

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Mon - Fri: 8:00 - 17:00

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813 Charoen Krung Rd, Talat Noi, Samphanthawong

10100 Bangkok

Thailand

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Mon - Fri: 8:00 - 17:00

Sat - Sun: 8:00 - 17:00

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10400 Bangkok

Thailand

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