Justino Huamán

Origin

• 🇵🇪 Peru· Cusco

Tasting notes

Character

• Funky
  20

We are blessed by the fruits of Peru this year, and here's a lovely new SL-9 from producer Justino Huamán, one of our final releases from the 2025 Peruvian harvest. This coffee has shown a bit of all fruits depending on the cup, but the mango and citrus are prominent. This one went out to our monthly subscribers first, now available to all! Justino's farm Finca Limonniyoc has been growing typicaTypicaThe oldest cultivated arabica lineage, ancestor of most Latin American coffee. Low yield, clean and sweet cup; the baseline other varieties are measured against. and bourbonBourbonOne of the two foundational arabica varieties (with Typica), named after Île Bourbon (Réunion). Sweet, balanced, caramel-leaning; parent of countless modern cultivars. varieties for 15 years, and geishaGesha (Geisha)A rare, jasmine-and-bergamot scented variety originally from Ethiopia's Gesha forest, made famous by Panama's Hacienda La Esmeralda. Routinely the most expensive coffee at auction. just for the last five years. Their drying area receives naturalNatural processThe whole cherry is dried with the fruit still on the seed. Gives heavier body and big fruit flavors — think berries and wine — sometimes with a fermenty edge. shade from pacay and other native trees. They use traditional methods such as pack animals to transport their coffee down from their perch at 2100 meters, a journey that takes two to three hours. After harvesting only ripe cherries, the coffee was pulped, leaving just part of the mucilage intact. Following a brief fermentation, the coffee was washedWashed processThe fruit is removed from the seed before drying, usually with fermentation and a water rinse. Tends to give clean, transparent cups where origin character shows clearly. and then dried on raised beds over 15-20 days. Process: Washed Region: Cusco, Peru VarietyVariety (cultivar)The botanical subtype of the coffee plant — Gesha, Bourbon, SL28 — analogous to grape varieties in wine. A major driver of cup character alongside origin and process.: Geisha Make sure to check that the roast dateRoast date / restingSpecialty bags carry the roast date, not a best-before. Coffee needs days to degas CO₂ after roasting ('resting') and is typically best within weeks, not months. you've selected is what you're looking for — if there is an "upcoming roast" for this coffee, the upcoming roast date is listed under the tasting notesTasting notesThe flavors a roaster perceives in the cup — 'jasmine, apricot, black tea'. Descriptive associations, not ingredients: nothing is added to the coffee. at the top of this product page. Please read our shipping info page!