COE Peru #20 La Rinconada

La Rinconada, the 2025 Cup of Excellence Peru #20 winner, comes from farmer Roberto Carlos Palomino Flores in Cusco, Peru, grown on a geisha-exclusive plantation established in 2018. The coffee undergoes a meticulous process: Roberto hand-selects only the ripest cherries, rests them for 24 hours whole, then pulps and ferments them anaerobically in GrainPro bags for 48 hours before washing and drying for 14–16 days. The result is a round, creamy cup with apricot and orange florals, vanilla, ripe mango, and distinctive earl grey notes. This is a rare, competition-validated coffee from a young farmer pushing quality on newly planted geisha trees.