PRODIGAL – COE Peru #20 La Rinconada

This is La Rinconada, the 2025 Cup of Excellence Peru #20 winner. COE coffees are special, and this is our final such offering of the 2025 competition season. We love this coffee’s apricot, orange, vanilla florals, and it’s also reminiscent of earl grey, with a round creaminess, and ripe mango.

Farmer Roberto Carlos Palomino Flores began growing coffee just in 2018, inspired by his parents. Now Roberto considers coffee an integral part of his life. Two years after establishing his brand-new plantation composed exclusively of geisha, the plants started producing. For this crop, Roberto started by collecting just the ripest cherries he could find. After 24 hours of rest in cherry, he pulped them and stored them in GrainPro bags for a 48-hour anaerobic fermentation. Following that he washed them thoroughly and dried the coffee for 14-16 days. Process: anaerobic washed