What does fruit have to do with cupping training?
Posted by Winston on 19 Feb 2010 at 2:44 am | Tagged as: Other Stuff
Plenty, it turns out.
We sponsor a training program with our friends at Sustainable Harvest in Lima, Peru that teaches coop members and farmers in Peru to cup. Cupping is the sensory evaluation of coffee using a rigorous, objective set of protocols that helps everyone in the supply chain fairly and accurately judge and grade coffee.
As I’m writing, there’s a class going on right now in Lima, and they sent me a great picture of fruits and teas and chocolates. Olga from their office said,
“Here producers are smelling, tasting and feeling all the fruits, spices, and tea infusions so they can create a sensory memory for cupping and identify what is a note of clove, chocolate, citris, etc.”