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Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for Peru Rejo Bourbon 7oz, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Peru Rejo Bourbon 7oz; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Peru Rejo Bourbon 7oz; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Peru Rejo Bourbon 7oz; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇵🇪Peru · Cajamarca

Peru Rejo Bourbon 7oz

Roasted by Intelligentsia CoffeeRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsPeruCajamarcaBourbonWashedOrangeCloveArabicaSingle originEl Rejo parcel (La Palestina)Alarcón Coronel familyIntelligentsia CoffeeOwned by Peet's Coffee (JAB Holding Company)
🇵🇪PeruWashedBourbon
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
El Rejo parcel (La Palestina)
Farmer / Producer
Alarcón Coronel family
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Bourbon
Process
Roast
—
Tasting notes
Mandarin orange, Stone fruit, Clove
Fermentation
—
Drying
—
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • fermentationIntelligentsia says La Palestina centralizes fermentation but does not publish the exact protocol or duration for this release.
  • drying methodThe exact drying method is not published for this release.
  • harvestThe exact harvest dates or crop year are not published for this release.
  • formal gradeSpecial Selection is a commercial release label, not a formal green-coffee grade.
  • roast levelThe exact primary page does not state a conventional roast category; third-party labels were not promoted to a roaster fact.
  • roast dateNo complete bag-specific roast date is published for this exact release.
  • public sentiment ratingNo independent exact-release tasting review qualified; Cherrybook's CBI is an evidence index, 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.

  1. 01
    The name on the bag
    Peru Rejo Bourbon 7oz
  2. 02
    The brand
    Intelligentsia Coffee
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Intelligentsia Coffee
  4. 04
    The variety
    Bourbon
  5. 05
    The farm
    El Rejo parcel (La Palestina)
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Alarcón Coronel family
  7. 07
    The region
    Cajamarca
  8. 08
    The country
    🇵🇪Peru
From the producer

The third-generation Alarcón Coronel family operates La Palestina's individual parcels in San José del Alto. El Rejo is the family's 1,950-meter Bourbon parcel for this release; José and Anibal oversee centralized fermentation and drying at the shared wet mill.

From the roaster

This washed Bourbon comes from the El Rejo parcel of the La Palestina farm, which is managed by the Alarcón-Coronel family in the Cajamarca region of Peru. The coffee is grown at an elevation of 1,950 meters and is noted for its clarity and balance.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

El Rejo is a variety-specific Bourbon separation from La Palestina, whose individual family parcels share centralized fermentation and drying oversight.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Verified the exact lot

Confirmed the Alarcón family, La Palestina collection, El Rejo parcel, Cajamarca, Bourbon, washed process and 1,950-meter elevation.

02
Corrected the location model

Changed the town from La Palestina—the parcel collection name—to San José del Alto, the locality identified by Intelligentsia.

03
Reconciled retail fields

Entered the exact $24 / 7 oz sold-out offer already stated in the published narrative.

04
Preserved process limits

Recorded centralized fermentation and drying at the family wet mill without inventing the exact duration, washing sequence or drying method for this release.

What was added?

Structured consumer price and currency, corrected town attribution, refreshed availability, and clearer producer/wet-mill context.

What wasn't added?

No exact fermentation duration, drying method, crop year, conventional roast level, formal grade, roast date, owner score or outside cup score was inferred.

Why it matters

The page now distinguishes the El Rejo parcel, La Palestina farm collection and San José del Alto locality while keeping release facts separate from broader family context.

What you might taste

The live exact Intelligentsia page gives only a broad Tropical profile. An exact catalog capture preserves floral, nectarine and plum as listing-era roaster notes, but these were not converted into an in-house observation.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.intelligentsia.com/products/peru-rejo-bourbon
  • · https://www.intelligentsia.com/blogs/stories/peru-la-palestina
  • · https://cherrybookcoffee.com/coffee/intelligentsia-peru-rejo-bourbon
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 2026-10-29) 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

Method: exact-release independent tasting sources only. Intelligentsia's product and farm-story pages are primary but not independent; Cherrybook is an exact catalog whose 66 CBI is explicitly an evidence-of-quality index, not a cup score. General Intelligentsia discussion, café menus, aggregators and other Peru releases were excluded.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: El Rejo parcel (La Palestina) →Meet the farmer: Alarcón Coronel family →
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