Peru — Cherry Bomb — La Cima — Washed SL28 & Ruiru

Tastes Like — 🍒 Maraschino Cherries • 🥤 Cola Float • 🍦 Vanilla • 🍼 Milk Bottles

DETAILS

Producer: San Ignacio

Farm/Station: La Cima

Region: Peru

Varietal: SL28, Ruiru

Process: Washed

Size: 200g

INTRO

Cherry Bomb is a clean, sweet cup that keeps unfolding. Bright cherry up front, rounded by a cola-like sweetness that drifts into something creamy and soft. One that gets better as it cools — the kind of coffee that reveals more with every sip.

From La Cima in Peru, produced by the San Ignacio community, this washed lot showcases SL28 and Ruiru varieties delivering a surprisingly vibrant, fruit-forward profile — more East African in character than you might expect from a Peruvian origin.

THE PRODUCER

San Ignacio is a coffee-producing region in the northernmost tip of Peru's Cajamarca department, bordering Ecuador. The area's high altitude, cool temperatures, and abundant rainfall create ideal conditions for slow cherry development — producing dense, complex beans. La Cima is a station aggregating carefully selected lots from smallholder producers across this exceptional zone.

The presence of SL28 and Ruiru varieties — cultivars associated primarily with Kenya — speaks to the experimental spirit of Peru's emerging specialty producers, who are embracing diverse genetics to push the quality ceiling of Peruvian coffee.

THE PROCESS

The Washed process at La Cima involves:

• 🍒 Selective Harvest — Only fully ripe cherries hand-picked at peak sugar content
• 💧 Pulping — Cherry skin removed to expose the mucilage-coated bean
• 🧪 Fermentation — Beans fermented in water tanks to loosen remaining mucilage
• 💧 Washing — Thoroughly washed clean through grading channels
• ☀️ Raised-Bed Drying — Dried slowly on raised beds to target moisture content

The washed process strips the fruit entirely before drying, producing a cup with exceptional clarity — the varietal character of SL28 and Ruiru shines clean and precise, delivering the cherry brightness and soft sweetness that makes Cherry Bomb so compelling.

THE CUP

A vivid, fruit-forward washed filter that rewards patience — bright maraschino cherry sweetness up front, a cola float juiciness through the middle, and a long, creamy finish of vanilla and milk bottles. Drinks even better as it cools. Deceptively complex for such a clean cup.

Flavour Notes

• 🍒 Maraschino Cherries
• 🥤 Cola Float
• 🍦 Vanilla
• 🍼 Milk Bottles