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Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for Peru Marañón River Valley, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Peru Marañón River Valley; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Peru Marañón River Valley; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Peru Marañón River Valley; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇵🇪Peru
Roaster website
Country
🇵🇪Peru
Region
Marañón River Valley
Town
—
Farm / Station
—
Farmer / Producer
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
—
Variety
Not disclosed for the exact release
Process
—
Roast
—
Tasting notes
Apple, Raw Sugar, Dried Fruit
Fermentation
—
Drying
—
Product page
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • farmThis is a cooperative lot involving 124 women producers; no single farm is identified.
  • regionThe exact listing identifies the Marañón River Valley but not one department; APROCCURMA operates across multiple northern Peruvian areas.
  • varietyThe exact product listing does not disclose the cultivar.
  • processThe primary exact product page does not disclose processing. Cherrybook labels the exact listing washed and La Minita documents washed cooperative production generally, but those secondary and cooperative-wide facts were not promoted to the lot.
  • altitudeNo lot-specific elevation is published.
  • harvestNo exact crop or harvest year is published.
  • roast levelNo conventional light, medium or dark roast label is published.
  • public sentiment ratingNo qualifying independent exact-release tasting or rating was verified.
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
    Peru Marañón River Valley
  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04
    The variety
    Not disclosed for the exact release
  5. 05
    The farm
    Not disclosed
  6. 06
    The farmer
  7. 07
    The region
    Marañón River Valley
  8. 08
    The country
From the producer

Asociación de Productores Cafetaleros de la Cuenca del Rio Marañón works with 124 women producers and supports them with financing, training and technical assistance.

From the roaster

Intelligentsia sources this coffee through their Direct Trade program, focusing on clean and sweet profiles from the Southern Season origin of Peru.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

This lot centers APROCCURMA's work with 124 women producers and documents a women-owned, women-managed farm network alongside a clearly described sweet, dried-fruit cup profile.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Exact release verified

Confirmed APROCCURMA, the 124-women producer initiative, $21 price, sold-out status and primary sensory language.

02
Package restored

Added the exact catalog's 340 g archived format without importing unsupported lot attributes.

03
Sensory snapshots separated

Kept Intelligentsia's Apple + Raw Sugar and dried-fruit description separate from Cherrybook's chocolate, marshmallow and dried-fruit catalog snapshot.

04
Process bounded

Left the structured process unset because the primary exact product page omits it; catalog and cooperative-wide washed references are documented but not promoted.

What was added?

Verified price, currency, 340 g package, refreshed availability and clearer evidence boundaries.

What wasn't added?

No single farm, individual producer, exact department, cultivar, lot-specific process, elevation, harvest, conventional roast level, formal grade or public sentiment score.

Why it matters

The page centers APROCCURMA's women-producer initiative without converting cooperative-wide information into unsupported lot-level facts.

What you might taste

Intelligentsia lists confectionary sweetness, dried fruit, apple and raw sugar; Cherrybook separately preserves chocolate, marshmallow and dried fruit.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.intelligentsia.com/products/peru-maranon-river-valley
  • · https://cherrybookcoffee.com/coffee/intelligentsia-peru-maranon-river-valley
  • · https://www.laminita.com/farms-mills/aproccurma
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 2026-10-30) 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 is an exact-release catalog source but reports no Coffee Review score, exact YouTube review, shop rating or Cherrybook rating. Its 62 CBI is explicitly a sparse evidence-of-quality index built largely from roaster-wide signals, not a cup score, so it was excluded from public sentiment.

Until then, meet the people behind it: