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Valle Del Santuario — supplied coffee image 1
Valle Del Santuario — supplied coffee image 2
Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Valle Del Santuario; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Valle Del Santuario; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇵🇪Peru · Cajamarca

Valle Del Santuario

Roasted by Counter Culture CoffeeRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsPeruCajamarcaWashedLight roastVanillaArabicaSingle originCENFROCAFECounter Culture CoffeeIndependent
🇵🇪PeruWashedField BlendLight roast
Brand
Counter Culture Coffee
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇵🇪Peru
Region
Cajamarca
Town
Ihuamaca
Farm / Station
—
Farmer / Producer
CENFROCAFE
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Field Blend
Process
Roast
Light
Tasting notes
toffee, vanilla, dried fruit
Fermentation
—
Drying
—
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • individual producers and farmsThe release names five communities but not the contributing people, farms, or their proportions.
  • exact scalar elevationCounter Culture publishes a 1,600–2,100 m range. The prior 1,850 m midpoint has been removed rather than presenting an inferred value as disclosed fact.
  • cultivar and community proportionsBourbon, Pache, and Caturra and five communities are verified, but their shares in the final lot are not published.
  • fermentation and drying protocolThe exact release is identified as washed, but fermentation time, washing steps, drying surface, and drying duration are not disclosed.
  • consumer retail priceThe reviewed exact archive does not display a historical consumer package price.
  • public sentiment ratingThe exact 2023 release lacks a qualifying independent score. A 2011 tasting was excluded because crop equivalence cannot be established.
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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.

  1. 01
    The name on the bag
    Valle Del Santuario
  2. 02
    The brand
    Counter Culture Coffee
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Counter Culture Coffee
  4. 04
    The variety
    Field Blend
  5. 05
    The farm
    Not disclosed
  6. 06
    The farmer
    CENFROCAFE
  7. 07
    The region
    Cajamarca
  8. 08
    The country
    🇵🇪Peru
From the producer

CENFROCAFE is the northern Peruvian cooperative behind Valle Del Santuario, sourced from five communities around Ihuamaca near San Ignacio.

From the roaster

Counter Culture Coffee is a specialty roaster known for its commitment to sustainability, direct trade relationships, and extensive transparency reporting.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

The coffee represents a named, producer-led sourcing project with five communities and a Counter Culture relationship dating to 2007.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Built the missing editorial profile

Added origin, five-community, partnership, price, process, taste, and evidence sections.

02
Connected the mixed-variety record

Linked the existing Field Blend record for Bourbon, Pache, and Caturra; no new variety or farm was created.

03
Corrected false precision

Removed the inferred 1,850 m midpoint and preserved Counter Culture’s 1,600–2,100 m range in prose.

04
Protected release-specific sentiment

Kept a positive 2011 discussion as historical context only and did not score it against the 2023 crop.

What was added?

Four editorial sections, explicit unknowns, the existing Field Blend relationship, five-community context, and $4.50/lb FOB transparency.

What wasn't added?

No individual farm or producer, component proportions, processing timings, consumer price, or public sentiment score was inferred.

Why it matters

The page now explains why Valle Del Santuario is a named community project rather than a single farm and separates durable partnership history from release-specific facts.

What you might taste

Toffee, vanilla, and dried fruit, based on Counter Culture’s tasting notes.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://counterculturecoffee.com/products/valle-del-santuario
  • · https://coffeelands.crs.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/CRS-Coffeelands-Research-Review-The-Social-Impact-of-Microlots.pdf
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 2026-10-11) 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

A favorable Home-Barista report from January 2011 was found, but it predates the July–September 2023 harvest by more than a decade. Because the named coffee recurs across crops, it was excluded from exact-release sentiment.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farmer: CENFROCAFE →
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