Gedion Venero is a producer from the Inkawasi Valley in Cusco, a producing region of Peru where we plan to center more of our sourcing in the future and look forward to visiting later this year. This season, we purchased both a larger blender lot from Gedion as well as this smaller separated lot. Gedion’s farm, Ccoripaccha, sits at 2,260 masl and is cultivated primarily with SL-9, an Ethiopian Legacy variety, locally known as “Inca Gesha,” whose full genetic picture is still emerging. In the cup, we get lightly process-driven, lightly floral flavors of blood orange and sweet cherry with rose aromatics.