Chiroso is a relatively new variety in the world of specialty coffee

Producer Leonardo Loaiza grows coffee perched on a steep mountainside in Buesaco

Variety Bourbon

Elevation: 1200 masl

Importer     Apex

Peru Alarcon Family, Washed Bourbon, Subtext | 250g Chiroso is a relatively newThe Alarcon family returns with their washed Bourbon. This year's lot is complex, sweet, and round. In the cup, we find notes of yellow plum, cola, and red apple. La Palestina is an 11 hectare farm that sits at altitudes of about 1,700 1,800 masl in Jan, Peru. It is owned and operated by the Alarcon family, a cornerstone of the specialty coffee growing community in San Jose de Alto. Originally founded in 1976, by Don Jose Alarcon and Doa Zobeida