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🇵🇪Peru · Cusco

2025 Juan Contreras; Layampata - Peru

Roasted by Sey CoffeeRoaster's website

TRADITIONAL PROCESS

TagsPeru Cusco SL9 Washed Jasmine Arabica Single origin Layampata Juan Contreras Sey Coffee Independent

🇵🇪PeruWashedSL9

Brand

SEY Coffee

Roaster website

Visit website

Country

🇵🇪Peru

Region

Cusco

Town

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Farm / Station

Layampata

Farmer / Producer

Juan Contreras

Species

Arabica

Type

Single origin

Grade

Not specified

Variety

SL9

Process

Roast

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Tasting notes

ripe nectarine, lychee, jasmine pearls

Fermentation

Dry-fermented for 36 hours after depulping, then washed

Drying

Dried on raised beds until moisture reached 10.5%

Product page

Roaster's site

Date reviewed

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Why some details are blank

roast levelThe exact official listing does not state a conventional roast category.
public sentimentNo qualifying independent exact-release tasting review or numeric rating was found.
SL9 genetic identitySEY says SL9 resembles SL09, but its exact genetic fingerprint is not present in the cited reference database.

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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
2025 Juan Contreras; Layampata - Peru
Named on the bag
02
The brand
SEY Coffee
Documented
03
The roaster
Sey Coffee
Documented
04
The variety
SL9
Documented
05
The farm
Layampata
Documented
06
The farmer
Juan Contreras
Documented
07
The region
Cusco
Documented
08
The country
🇵🇪Peru
Documented

From the producer

Juan Contreras produces coffee at Layampata in Cusco’s San Fernando Valley. SEY discovered this lot through the San Fernando Cooperative lab and describes his fully organic farm and modest bucket-fermentation setup.

From the roaster

Sey Coffee is a Brooklyn-based roastery focused on sourcing dynamic, complex coffees through transparent, long-term relationships with producers. They utilize a light roast profile to emphasize the inherent clarity and distinct flavor characteristics of each micro-lot.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

SEY called this one of the best SL9 lots it cupped that year and highlighted the combination of rare SL9 genetics, organic production, and 2,333 m elevation.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

Harvest and sorting

Cherries were hand-picked at peak ripeness and floated.

Depulping and fermentation

Coffee was depulped, dry-fermented for 36 hours in plastic buckets, and washed.

Drying

The parchment was dried on raised beds until moisture reached 10.5%.

What was added?

No processing additives are disclosed.

What wasn't added?

No fruit, spices, commercial cultures, flavorings, or post-roast additives are disclosed.

Why it matters

The disclosed method is a traditional washed process, and the farm's organic context is kept separate from any claim about added fermentation inputs.

What you might taste

Ripe nectarine, lychee, and jasmine pearls, according to SEY.

Sources for these process claims

· https://www.seycoffee.com/products/2025-juan-contreras-layampata-peru

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: Layampata →Meet the farmer: Juan Contreras →

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2025 Juan Contreras; Layampata - Peru

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WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLYDO TO THIS COFFEE?

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