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🇵🇪Peru · Cajamarca

La Palestina - Marshell Variety

Roasted by Counter Culture CoffeeRoaster's website

TRADITIONAL PROCESS

TagsPeru Cajamarca Marshell Washed Light roast Arabica Single origin Finca La Palestina José Praxedes Alarcón Counter Culture Coffee Independent

🇵🇪PeruWashedMarshellLight roast

Brand

Counter Culture Coffee

Roaster website

Visit website

Country

🇵🇪Peru

Region

Cajamarca

Town

San José del Alto

Farm / Station

Finca La Palestina

Farmer / Producer

José Praxedes Alarcón

Species

Arabica

Type

Single origin

Grade

Not specified

Variety

Marshell

Process

Roast

Light

Tasting notes

Fig, Cola, Crisp finish

Fermentation

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Drying

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Product page

Roaster's site

Date reviewed

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Why some details are blank

fermentationThe exact product page identifies washed processing but does not publish fermentation duration or method.
drying methodNo exact-lot drying surface or duration is disclosed.
brew recommendationNo exact-product brew recipe was published.

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The transparency chain

FROM THE BAG
BACK TO THE LAND.

Every link we could verify, traced in one place. Follow the chain as far as it goes — when the industry doesn't disclose a link, we say so instead of guessing.

01
The name on the bag
La Palestina - Marshell Variety
Named on the bag
02
The brand
Counter Culture Coffee
Documented
03
The roaster
Counter Culture Coffee
Documented
04
The variety
Marshell
Documented
05
The farm
Finca La Palestina
Documented
06
The farmer
José Praxedes Alarcón
Documented
07
The region
Cajamarca
Documented
08
The country
🇵🇪Peru
Documented

From the producer

José Praxedes Alarcón manages the family parcel that produced this exact lot within the wider Alarcón Coronel operation.

From the roaster

Counter Culture Coffee is a Durham-based roaster focused on sustainability, direct trade relationships, and transparency within the specialty coffee industry.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

A traceable single-parcel release of Peru’s still-debated Marshell variety, with exact harvest, elevation, process, and producer attribution.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

Parcel-level traceability

Structured the lot as 100% Marshell from José Praxedes Alarcón’s parcel at Finca La Palestina without assigning other family parcels.

Exact-lot processing

Retained the roaster-verified washed process, July–August 2025 harvest, and 1,750-meter elevation while leaving undisclosed fermentation and drying details blank.

Retail and sentiment verification

Recorded the exact $25 USD / 12 oz catalog capture and confirmed that the same page has 0 ratings.

What was added?

Structured single-parcel composition, verified historical retail price and bag size, refreshed sold-out status, and explicit catalog-mapping caveats.

What wasn't added?

No fermentation duration, drying protocol, brew recipe, owner tasting, house score, or public sentiment rating was inferred.

Why it matters

The record now follows the exact subscriber lot from producer and parcel through variety and process, without importing details from other La Palestina cultivars or harvests.

What you might taste

Counter Culture lists fig, cola, and a crisp finish.

Sources for these process claims

· https://counterculturecoffee.com/products/la-palestina
· https://www.coffeelist.co/b/counter-culture-coffee/la-palestina-marshell-variety

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 2026-11-11) 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

Checked the exact Coffee List page on 2026-11-11; it reports 0 ratings. Its profile sliders, seller-derived notes, and generic Marsellesa mapping were excluded. Different La Palestina Gesha, SL9, Bourbon, Caturra, and other-crop releases were also excluded.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Finca La Palestina →Meet the farmer: José Praxedes Alarcón →

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La Palestina - Marshell Variety

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WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLYDO TO THIS COFFEE?

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What the internet is saying about this coffee

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