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Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for Gemini, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Gemini; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Gemini; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Gemini; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Gemini

Roasted by Counter Culture CoffeeRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsGesha for the Peru halfMedium-Light roastBlueberryArabicaBlendCounter Culture CoffeeIndependent
Blend: Peru · Costa RicaMedium-Light roast
Brand
Counter Culture Coffee
Roaster website
Visit website
Countries
Peru · Costa Rica
Regions
Incahuasi Valley, Cusco
Town
—
Farm / Station
Varies by component — see below
Farmer / Producer
Multiple contributors — see blend components
Species
Arabica
Type
Blend
Grade
Not specified
Varieties
Gesha
Process
See individual components
Roast
Medium-Light
Tasting notes
Blueberry, Apple, Melon
Fermentation
—
Drying
—
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • Herbazú varietyThe exact Gemini page does not publish the Costa Rica component cultivar.
  • Incahuasi farm allocationLucio Luque and Eudis Orosco are named, but the page does not assign farm-level percentages within the 50% Peru component.
  • fermentationThe page gives washed and natural-sundried labels but no fermentation parameters.
  • drying detailNatural sundried is disclosed for Herbazú, but drying surface and duration are not.
  • harvestNo crop year or harvest dates are published.
  • current commerceThe official sold-out page does not expose a current price; the stored $34 / 12 oz figure is historical and comes from an exact Coffee List catalog record.
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Sourcing explained

Who grew each part of this blend?

This coffee combines separately grown lots. A producer named for one component is not the grower of the entire blend. 50% Incahuasi Gesha, Peru; 50% Herbazú Natural Sundried, Costa Rica

Incahuasi Gesha

Country:
Peru
Region:
Incahuasi Valley, Cusco
Processing:
Washed
Proportion:
50%
Research note:
Counter Culture identifies Gesha microlots from the two producers; the Gemini page does not assign individual farm percentages.

Herbazú Natural Sundried

Country:
Costa Rica
Farm / station:
Herbazú
Processing:
Natural sundried
Proportion:
50%
Research note:
The exact page names Herbazú and the Barrantes family but does not publish the component cultivar.

Check the roaster’s current component disclosure ↗

The transparency chain

FROM THE BAG
BACK TO THE LAND.

A blend contains several origin chains, not one farmer or country. The component records above show each documented origin; undisclosed details stay undisclosed.

  1. 01
    The name on the bag
    Gemini
  2. 02
    The brand
    Counter Culture Coffee
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Counter Culture Coffee
  4. 04
    Varieties
    Gesha
  5. 05
    Farms / processing sites
    Not disclosed
  6. 06
    The growers
    Multiple contributors — see component details above
  7. 07
    Regions
    Incahuasi Valley, Cusco
  8. 08
    Countries
    Peru · Costa Rica
From the producer

The Peru half comes from Incahuasi partners Lucio Luque and Eudis Orosco. The Costa Rica half comes from Herbazú, founded by José Antonio Barrantes Zúñiga (Toño) and his siblings.

From the roaster

Counter Culture Coffee is a roaster that emphasizes long-standing relationships with farmers and transparent, ethical sourcing practices to provide high-quality coffee.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

Gemini represents a unique international collaboration between Counter Culture Coffee and Fritz Coffee Company, marking the first time Counter Culture partnered with another roaster for a product release.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Corrected the producer model

Kept the collaborating roasters separate from the farms’ producers and preserved the blend’s component-level relationships.

02
Linked exact component entities

Connected the Herbazú component to a verified farm record and to José Antonio Barrantes Zúñiga (Toño) and his siblings; retained Lucio Luque and Eudis Orosco for the Incahuasi half.

03
Verified formula, commerce, and brewing

Confirmed the exact 50/50 formula, processes, medium-light roast, flavor notes, sold-out state, historical $34 / 12 oz catalog price, and Counter Culture’s V60 recipe.

What was added?

Exact Herbazú farm and Barrantes-family producer links, component-level provenance, historical catalog price, refreshed availability, and current fact-check dates.

What wasn't added?

No single whole-blend country, region, farm, producer, cultivar, process, house score, owner tasting observation, or public sentiment score was inferred.

Why it matters

A blend can credit exact component farms and producers without misclassifying collaborating roasters or flattening two origins into one.

What you might taste

Blueberry, apple, and melon according to Counter Culture.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://counterculturecoffee.com/products/gemini
  • · https://counterculturecoffee.com/blogs/counter-culture-coffee/gemini-a-photo-essay
  • · https://www.coffeelist.co/b/counter-culture-coffee/gemini
Coffee profile

In the database. Not tasted. Not scored.

This coffee is in our database because we can reliably document it — but we haven't tasted and scored it yet, and we never publish a score we haven't earned.

Outside reviews and internet discussion — is kept clearly separate from our own review. When we taste it, our full review appears here.

The internet pulse

What the internet is saying about this coffee

Research complete — no qualifying reviews yet

Our research pipeline scanned public reviews, videos, forums and discussions for this coffee (last pass 2026-10-27) and found no independent review of this exact release that meets our verification standards. When qualifying sources appear, they'll be published here.

What we found

The exact Coffee List catalog page shows zero ratings, so it supports historical price and bag size but not public sentiment. Non-exact, seller-authored, generic-roaster, different-release, duplicate, and older-release sources were excluded.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

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