Women in Peru are the subject of persistent discrimination in education, employment, and health. That's why Cafe Femenino, a coffee growing cooperative managed solely by women, is turning heads - especially male heads. Femenino is a great program to be involved in and the coffee they're putting out is absolutely wonderful.

Scattered across rural farm villages that dot the Andes Mountains of northern Peru, 464 women teamed together to form their own coffee association, Cafe Femenino, as a way to earn more money and assert their independence in a historically male dominated country, more specifically a male dominated industry.

If you did not know David Lange was talking about coffee, you would bet a bag of beans he was waxing poetic about wine. In the tasting room at Consumer's Choice Coffee in Louisville, Ky., Lange never describes coffee as good or bad. Instead, flavors are bright, bold and robust.

Coffee has structure, texture and body. As Lange, the company's vice president of business development, pours a cup, he encourages the three tasters under his tutelage to savor the aroma, really take a good whiff. And make sure to let it roll to the back of your tongue.