Origin Story
José Alarcón and Zobeida Coronel moved to San José del Alto in 1976 with their four young children to start a fledgling coffee farm. Both the family and the farm have grown over the past 47 years, and today Finca La Palestina is something altogether unique — a sprawling residential compound that is home to three generations of the Alarcón Coronel clan, and a vast coffee farm worked collectively by members of a family focused on quality. This year marks the second Geisha harvest at La Palestina and Intelligentsia’s second year purchasing this lot.