Peru Roger x Eli

Coffee overview

Roger Chilcon and Eli Espinoza combined their Gesha harvest this year into a sensational lot, carefully processed on Roger's farm in a light anaerobic washed fashion. This coffee offers very high complexity, layered soft tropical and stone fruit characters, beautifully honeyed sweetness, and more complex florals into the finish. This coffee has stunned on every approach through profiling and tasting, as long as you approach this one with some delicacy in mind, it will delight.

Coffee flavor profile

Dragon fruit, honeysuckle, lily

Acidity: soft, complex
Sweetness: honeyed
Balance: excellent
Finish: complex, floral, short, clean

Brewing evaluation

Rest: 40+ days recommended

Filter eval day 1: Gabi Standard - Beautiful cup, highly complex, with softer tropical fruits on top of honeyed sweetness, with a tropical floral finish. Excellent structure throughout. Highly complex. One of the best so far in 2026.

TDS: 1.4 EY: 23.26%

We use 60 hardness, 20 buffer water heated to 198F in all of our recipes.

Information

Farm: Two farms in La Pirias and El Diamante villages
Producer: Roger Chilcon
Region: Cajamarca
Country: Peru
Variety: Gesha
Process: Anaerobic washed
Process details: Ripe cherries are sealed in bags overnight, then depulped and fermented for 24 to 36 hours depending on weather conditions. Coffee is then dried in greenhouse on plastic-lined wooden patios until reaching below 11% moisture.
Sourcing: Falcon