Peru La Pluma Dorada

Andy Llanos is a second generation coffee farmer from Santa Rosa in Colasay district. Andy co-owns and manages the Pluma Dorada farm along with his mother. Andy is a trained mechanic and lived in Chiclayo, the main city in the north of Peru, but when his father’s health deteriorated considerably he returned to Colasay to take over the family farm. Since 2016 Andy has replanted and renovated all of the farm himself and even though a large part of it was given over to his siblings he continues to manage 2ha of land along with his mother. As well as the inherited land, Andy has bought a 3ha plot nearby where he is planting geisha, sidra and wush wush.
Andy is very passionate about coffee and loves to experiment in the farm, as he says, it’s his playground. Walking around the farm you can see all sorts of different varieties, plant spacing and pruning techniques. Since access to good, reliable agronomic advise is quite hard to come by in Peru most producers have to see what works through trial and error, something that Andy really enjoys.
La Pluma Dorada is mostly planted with Tabi variety, which Andy loves for it’s production and cup quality. Locally known as Alto Marañon, recent genetic testing shows that this in fact Tabi, a Colombian hybrid variety which is one of the few catimor lines to produce tall tree types. It tends to have a small dense bean and demonstrates great cup quality in the Colasay area