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Peru La Palestina — supplied coffee image 1
Peru La Palestina — supplied coffee image 2
Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Peru La Palestina; not a documentary photograph

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

Editorial illustration

🇵🇪Peru · Cajamarca

Peru La Palestina

Roasted by Intelligentsia CoffeeRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsPeruCajamarcaPacheBourbonCaturraCatuaiCatimorWashedOrangeCloveArabicaSingle originSpecialtyFinca La Palestina
🇵🇪PeruWashed
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
Alarcón Coronel family
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Specialty
Variety
Pache, Bourbon, Caturra, Catuai and Catimor
Process
Roast
—
Tasting notes
Orange Zest, Clove, Butterscotch
Fermentation
—
Drying
—
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • altitude mIntelligentsia publishes a 1,769 m farm average across parcels spanning about 1,200–2,000 m, not a lot-specific elevation.
  • harvestThe exact release does not publish a harvest date.
  • fermentationThe family’s shared wet mill is documented, but the release-specific fermentation protocol is not.
  • drying methodThe release-specific drying method is not disclosed.
  • roast levelIntelligentsia’s proprietary taste-style label is not converted into a conventional roast level.
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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 La Palestina
  2. 02
    The brand
    Intelligentsia Coffee
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Intelligentsia Coffee
  4. 04
    The variety
    Pache, Bourbon, Caturra, Catuai and Catimor
  5. 05
    The farm
    Finca La Palestina
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Alarcón Coronel family
  7. 07
    The region
    Cajamarca
  8. 08
    The country
    🇵🇪Peru
From the producer

The Alarcón Coronel family manages a collection of individual parcels at Finca La Palestina. Intelligentsia describes three generations of family involvement, with José and Anibal overseeing fermentation and drying at a shared wet mill.

From the roaster

Intelligentsia lists this organic single-origin release under its proprietary Comforting taste style. That label is not treated as a conventional roast level.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

A traceable family coffee from a remote Cajamarca farm network, with a current retail listing, exact bag size, and exact flavor notes. Variety, process, and release-specific altitude remain undisclosed, so they are not inferred from broader farm information.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Farm selection

Coffee came from the Alarcón Coronel family’s La Palestina parcels in Cajamarca and combines five named varieties.

02
Washed processing

The exact-product catalog records the release as washed; the family’s centralized wet mill is verified, but the release-specific fermentation and drying workflow is not published.

What was added?

Nothing is documented as added to the coffee.

What wasn't added?

No flavoring or co-fermentation input is disclosed.

Why it matters

The profile separates verified lot composition and washed processing from broader farm context and leaves undisclosed technical steps blank.

What you might taste

Orange zest, clove and butterscotch, according to Intelligentsia.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.intelligentsia.com/blogs/stories/peru-la-palestina
  • · https://www.beanswithbeanie.com/coffee/peru-la-palestina-intelligentsia-coffee
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 2026-10-25) 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

Non-exact, seller, directory, generic-roaster, different-release, duplicate, and older-release sources were excluded. No qualifying independent exact-release review remains.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Finca La Palestina →Meet the farmer: Alarcón Coronel family →
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