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🇵🇪Peru · Cusco

Valle Inca

Roasted by Counter Culture CoffeeRoaster's website

TRADITIONAL PROCESS

TagsPeru Cusco Washed Light roast Arabica Single origin Valle Inca Counter Culture Coffee Independent

🇵🇪PeruWashedField BlendLight roast

Brand

Counter Culture Coffee

Roaster website

Visit website

Country

🇵🇪Peru

Region

Cusco

Town

Calca

Farm / Station

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Farmer / Producer

Valle Inca

Species

Arabica

Type

Single origin

Grade

Not specified

Variety

Field Blend

Process

Roast

Light

Tasting notes

golden raisin, nougat, creamy

Fermentation

—

Drying

Raised beds in small solar dryers

Product page

Roaster's site

Date reviewed

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Why some details are blank

altitude mThe official release publishes a 1,600–2,000 meter range, not one point elevation.
fermentationCounter Culture identifies tiled fermentation tanks but does not publish the exact lot’s fermentation duration or water protocol.
price usdThe published $4.81/lb figure is FOB green-coffee payment, not a retail bag price.
farm idThis is a cooperative lot from more than 100 growers, not one named farm.
producer detailIndividual contributing growers and their lot percentages are not published.
roast dateNo bag-specific roast date is available.
public sentimentNo independent review could be matched confidently to the 2025 harvest release.

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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
Valle Inca
Named on the bag
02
The brand
Counter Culture Coffee
Documented
03
The roaster
Counter Culture Coffee
Documented
04
The variety
Field Blend
Documented
05
The farm
Not disclosed
Not disclosed
06
The farmer
Valle Inca
Documented
07
The region
Cusco
Documented
08
The country
🇵🇪Peru
Documented

From the producer

CAC Valle Inca brings together just over 100 growers around Calca and in the Yanatile and Lares river valleys. Jose Prudencio leads storage, transportation, cupping, and lot organization.

From the roaster

Counter Culture Coffee is a specialty roaster known for its commitment to transparency, sustainability, and direct trade relationships. They prioritize long-term partnerships with producers and provide detailed quality and pricing data for their offerings.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

A remote cooperative uses local quality control, shared logistics, tile-lined wet-processing infrastructure, and protected raised-bed drying to bring dispersed smallholder lots together.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

Farm processing

Many member farms use small depulpers and ceramic-tile-lined fermentation and washing tanks.

Washing

Counter Culture classifies the release as washed.

Drying

Drying is almost exclusively on raised beds inside small solar dryers, which protect coffee from sporadic intense rainfall.

Quality control

Valle Inca checks moisture before collection, screens lots in Calca, and sends clean lots for laboratory evaluation in Lima.

What was added?

Nothing disclosed.

What wasn't added?

No post-roast flavoring is reported.

Why it matters

Protected raised-bed drying and moisture checks reduce spoilage risk in the wet, steep valleys where members farm.

What you might taste

Counter Culture lists golden raisin, nougat, and a creamy finish.

Sources for these process claims

· https://counterculturecoffee.com/products/valle-inca
· https://redfoxcoffeemerchants.com/paying-for-coffee-valle-inca/

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 2026-10-13) 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

Roaster copy, catalogs, café menus, and a marketplace comment without crop-year verification were excluded. No numerical public sentiment score was calculated.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farmer: Valle Inca →

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WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLYDO TO THIS COFFEE?

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