Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for Peru La Palestina Juan Alarcón, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Peru La Palestina Juan Alarcón; not a documentary photograph

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🇵🇪Peru · Cajamarca

Peru La Palestina Juan Alarcón

Roasted by Intelligentsia CoffeeRoaster's website

TagsPeru Cajamarca Orange Caramel Arabica Single origin Finca La Palestina Juan Alarcón Intelligentsia Coffee Owned by Peet's Coffee (JAB Holding Company)

🇵🇪Peru

Brand

Intelligentsia Coffee

Who owns the brand

A large corporation — Peet's Coffee (JAB Holding Company)

Roaster website

Visit website

Country

🇵🇪Peru

Region

Cajamarca

Town

San José del Alto

Farm / Station

Finca La Palestina

Farmer / Producer

Juan Alarcón

Species

Arabica

Type

Single origin

Grade

Not specified

Variety

—

Process

—

Roast

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Tasting notes

Nectarine, Orange, Caramel

Fermentation

—

Drying

—

Product page

Roaster's site

Date reviewed

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Why some details are blank

variety idThe exact release is described only as a blend of traditional varieties; component names are not disclosed.
process idThe exact-release sources do not disclose a processing method.
altitude mThe 1,769 m average and 1,200–2,000 m range describe Finca La Palestina broadly, not Juan Alarcón's exact lot.
harvestNo crop year or harvest window is disclosed for this exact release.
fermentationThe farm uses a centralized wet mill, but exact-release fermentation details are not disclosed.
drying methodThe farm article describes centralized drying operations but not this release's drying surface or duration.
roast levelIntelligentsia uses its proprietary Comforting descriptor; a third-party Medium-Light mapping is not treated as the roaster's conventional label.
public sentimentNo qualifying independent exact-release rating was found; Cherrybook's index is not a cup score.

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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
Peru La Palestina Juan Alarcón
Named on the bag
02
The brand
Intelligentsia Coffee
Documented
03
The roaster
Intelligentsia Coffee
Documented
04
The variety
Not disclosed
Not disclosed
05
The farm
Finca La Palestina
Documented
06
The farmer
Juan Alarcón
Documented
07
The region
Cajamarca
Documented
08
The country
🇵🇪Peru
Documented

From the producer

Juan Alarcón manages one section of the Alarcón Coronel family’s multi-parcel Finca La Palestina. The exact release is attributed to Juan, while the farm’s centralized wet mill operations are overseen by family members José and Anibal.

From the roaster

Intelligentsia lists nectarine, orange, and caramel and uses its proprietary “Comforting” descriptor. Its café menu identifies this as a $24, 12 oz lot from Juan Alarcón’s section of Finca La Palestina.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

A named-parcel-manager release from the Alarcón Coronel family’s multi-generational Finca La Palestina, explicitly described as a blend of traditional varieties.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

Verified the exact release

The Intelligentsia product page confirms $24, sold-out status, the proprietary Comforting profile, and nectarine, orange, and caramel.

Reconciled structured commerce fields

Filled the blank USD price fields with $24 and retained the 340 g package corroborated by Cherrybook and the exact café-menu record.

Preserved the section-level identity

Kept Juan Alarcón linked as the manager of this section of Finca La Palestina without converting the broader Alarcón Coronel family or other parcels into this release's producer identity.

Kept farm context out of exact-lot fields

Did not assign La Palestina's farm-wide elevation range, average elevation, or full five-variety list to Juan Alarcón's exact release.

What was added?

Structured $24 USD price, refreshed sold-out verification, current research dates, fuller provenance boundaries, and explicit score provenance.

What wasn't added?

No named variety components, process, lot-specific elevation, harvest, fermentation protocol, drying method, conventional roast level, formal grade, owner tasting, original score, or public-sentiment rating was inferred.

Why it matters

The commerce fields now agree with the exact listing while farm-wide facts remain clearly separated from Juan Alarcón's release-specific data.

What you might taste

Nectarine, orange, and caramel according to Intelligentsia; these are roaster notes, not our tasting.

Sources for these process claims

· https://www.intelligentsia.com/products/peru-la-palestina-juan-alarcon
· https://www.intelligentsia.com/blogs/stories/peru-la-palestina
· https://cherrybookcoffee.com/coffee/intelligentsia-peru-la-palestina-juan-alarcon
· https://order.toasttab.com/online/intelligentsia-coffee-post-office-square/item-peru-la-palestina-juan-alarcon-whole-bean-12oz

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 2026-11-02) 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

Cherrybook's exact catalog page was used only to corroborate catalog facts. Its index is based on roaster-level YouTube and Reddit signals plus disclosure depth, not exact-release tasting reviews. Reviews and scores for other La Palestina parcels or harvests were excluded.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Finca La Palestina →Meet the farmer: Juan Alarcón →

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Peru La Palestina Juan Alarcón

FROM THE BAGBACK TO THE LAND.

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLYDO TO THIS COFFEE?

In the database. Not tasted. Not scored.

What the internet is saying about this coffee

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