Arnaud Causse Heirloom

Variety: Landrace

Farm: Terrazas del Pisque

Region: Pichincha, Ecuador

Altitude: 2,000 Meters Above Sea Level

Harvest: August 2024

Process: Washed

Notes: Citrus, lily, passionfruit.

Our last offering from Arnaud and his partner Sebastian is certainly a standout lot. An Heirloom of elegant & colorful expressions. This variety has the florality and sharp berry structure of an Ethiopian coffee with a bit more body. In the cup we taste berries, citrus and melon with a light nip of lily. This coffee is understated, complex and presents some lovely tropicality and bright lemon meringue sweetness. This profile is pleasant on the palate long after the finish.

Sebastian picks the ripest of cherries for the washed lots, floats them to remove over/under-ripes and then washes them with clean water. After rinsing, the coffee is de-pulped and left to ferment in tanks for 48 hours. The coffee is then dried on raised beds for 15-18 days, depending on the weather.. 

Arnaud Causse is a man of overcoming challenges. For several decades, his passion for coffee has evolved into him being a travelling agronomist to the four corners of the world: Kenya, Costa Rica and Gabon to name a few. He has also developed projects in El Salvador and the Galapagos Islands. Immersed in the quest for excellence, he set up the Las Tolas farm, planting coffee trees in the heart of a natural forest. Then, after a spell in the Dominican Republic, Colombia and Peru, still working on coffee, Arnaud returned to Ecuador and founded Las Terrazas del Pisque, a farm in the middle of the high desert. With Finca Terrazas del Pisque, his approach was tailored from what he had learned in past projects. Now there is an entire ecostystem growing up together his with his coffee plantation. Together all plants share a network of rich minerals and nutrients. His bio-dynamic approach with Finca Terrazas del Pisque has been a project of great interest to us and we have been so grateful to share in the progress of each new crop season.