NOMAD – Competicion Geisha Timbuyacu 250g | Peru

About This Coffee

Geisha Timbuyaku is NOMAD Coffee's washed, competition-grade Peruvian Geisha — a small lot from El Shapingo, a two-hectare plot on Alfonso's Timbuyacu farm in the Colasay district, ringed by a natural fence of pine and eucalyptus. NOMAD picked it out for its competition range after Alfonso sent through a batch of sample lots from across the farm; this washed Geisha was the clear standout, and it now anchors the relationship between grower and roaster.

That relationship traces back to Sucafina: Sofie there recommended NOMAD reach out to Alfonso and his farm, sensing that his focus on quality, his people and the land would suit NOMAD's own approach. It proved right, and Sucafina has since helped finance and import the coffee directly. Timbuyacu itself carries real history — named after the Quechua words for boiling (Timbu) and water (Yacu), describing a spring on the farm that bubbles as though heated from below. The land has passed down through the family from Alfonso's grandmother, Eleodora Mori de Ibérico, to Alfonso today, who now oversees everything from care to sale and export across the farm's many plots. The whole operation runs on regenerative principles — rebuilding degraded soil with organic matter and agroforestry systems, and managing the land closely from germination all the way through to post-harvest.

Processing is washed: cherries are hand-picked and pulped in a drum pulper, fermented for 18 to 24 hours, then washed clean with fresh water. The parchment dries on raised beds and patios over 15 to 20 days, turned regularly for evenness, then rests on the farm for around 60 days before heading to the dry mill for hulling and export.

Geisha brings its usual floral intensity here — white tea and elderflower up front, with nectarine and plum filling out the fruit side of the cup. Acidity is mild, the body velvety, and the aftertaste long and pleasant — a genuinely different lot from NOMAD's standard Timbuyacu, distinguished by both the plot and the variety.

Freshly roasted by NOMAD Coffee in Barcelona and imported to the UK by ROAST EDIT Co.