It’s always exciting to bring in coffee from a country we’ve never featured. And while Peru isn’t a super rare origin to see on specialty menus, the novelty hasn’t worn off in our neck of the woods, so we are PSYCHED. And to ease us into this new-to-us coffee country, we’ve got some glorious Bourbon from an individual parcel on a family-run, Edenic-sounding farm called Finca la Palestina.

Finca la Palestina is a second-generation family farm managed by the Alarcón brothers, who divvy up their eleven hectares into seven distinct parcels while each of them also specializes in particular aspects of the cultivation and production processes as well. This Bourbon lot fell under the purview of Anibal Alarcón, whose primary expertise is fermentation. 

Bourbon is one of the classic classic coffee varieties, and it’s absolute magic when grown under the right circumstances and processed with the right guidance. This is a perfect example of both, so what we’ve got is a luscious, round, red-fruit-meets-cola-meets-candy vibe that is simultaneously attention-grabbing and versatile. Truly a desert-island coffee, if we had to choose one.

This was the first coffee on our Peruvian sample table that really caught our attention, and so it’s the first of two selections that we’ll be launching this season.