The best way to integrate coffee trees into a forest? By creating the forest yourself. Las Terrazas del Pisque is a farm in the middle of the desert, a complete ecosystem created from scratch in the middle of an arid desert zone.
This farm is the work of Arnaud Causse, whom you may know from Belco as Director of Transition. But Arnaud is also a singular producer, with a background as an agricultural engineer and many years of experience in the 4 corners of the world.
Here, you can taste the coffee from this exceptional farm, produced without pesticides, in the shade of some twenty species of shade tree, in a washed process.
Arnaud's washed coffees are pulped on the day the best cherries are harvested. They are fermented for 24 hours before being washed, then immersed for a further 24 hours, before drying under shade for between 8 and 12 days.