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Hitting the Ground Running with Peru 2024

August 1, 2024

It’s officially go-time in Peru. Our sourcing team spent the last few months meeting with supply chain partners across the country to plan for the 2024 season. Harvest started early…

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Southern Peru Harvest Update 2023

August 7, 2023

Let’s start by saying it’s impossible to talk about Cusco in Southern Peru as if it were a single producing region. Even the subgroups we work with, like Valle Inca,…

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Most Peru Roads Re-Opened Post Political Upheaval, Protests

December 19, 2022

Last week, amid a complex and jarring power shift in Peru, mass protests added fear, complexity, and unknown expense to coffee collection and logistics, especially for growers and association leaders…

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Interviews

Prudencio of Valle Inca, Peru on Building Trust & Community

May 26, 2021

Prudencio (Jose Prudencio Saenz Vargas) is the widely respected leader of Valle Inca in Cusco, Peru, one of our largest and most important relationships in the world. A Calca native,…

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Sourcing

Newsletter: Harvest Update & Delivery Schedule Peru 2016/2017

November 18, 2016

Greetings from the Fox Den, where we are in the thick of the South American shipping season. Lots from Colombia and Peru that we approved earlier this fall are starting…

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Sourcing

Newsletter: Peru 2015 Shipment & Delivery Update

December 15, 2015

Back when Red Fox Coffee Merchants was still a daydream of mine, one of my more lucid visions was that Peru would become the defining origin for a nascent sourcing…

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Sourcing

Newsletter: Peru Cusco Incahuasi 2014

February 25, 2015

Those of you in frequent contact with us are familiar by now with our thoughts on Peru. We think it’s the cat’s meow. We fully believe that Peru has more…

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Sourcing

Travel Journal: South America Update

August 30, 2014

Perfectly ripe stone fruit. Tart green grape. Juicy red apple. Fragrant floral aromatics reminiscent of wildflower honey and Queen of the Night. Toasted pecan. Toasted almond. Macadamia. Sugars ranging from…

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