Lima Coffee Roasters Wins Gold at the 2026 Global Coffee Awards
Lima Coffee Roasters won a Gold Medal at the 2026 Global Coffee Awards, US & Canada edition, in the Filter category, Washed subcategory, for our Wilder Garcia Geisha. The coffee was judged in August 2026 in Texas, scored blind by a panel of Q graders who never saw our name on the bag.
What the Global Coffee Awards actually is
The Global Coffee Awards is a roasted coffee competition organised by Perfect Daily Grind and hosted at the Producer & Roaster Forum. It runs in regional editions rather than as a single world event, and entries are split by category and by process, so a washed filter coffee is only ever cupped against other washed filter coffees.
The judging is the part that matters to us. Every entry is assessed double blind. No label, no logo, no roaster name, no origin story to lean on. A coffee either performs in the cup or it does not.
We want to be precise about the size of this: it is a Gold in one subcategory of the regional US & Canada edition. It is not a world title, and we are not going to describe it as one. The full results are public if you want to see the whole field.
The coffee that won
The winning lot came from Wilder Garcia in Cajamarca, Peru. His farm sits at 1800 metres above sea level: 23 hectares in total, 16 of them in coffee, worked by hand.
Cherries are depulped the same day they are picked, then given a 48 hour hermetic fermentation before moving to solar dryers. That is slow, attentive processing, and it is what produced the cup the judges scored. In the glass it reads as green grape and honeysuckle up front, with coconut water and orange blossom underneath. It is delicate rather than loud, which is exactly why blind judging suits it.
It is a microlot, which means there is not much of it. It ships as an 8 oz box.
Don Alvaro Blandon
Our Don Alvaro Blandon was also recognised at the 2026 awards with an Honorable Mention. That one is a Maracaturra from La Familia Blandon at Finca La Misericordia in Jinotega, Nicaragua, processed as an anaerobic honey. It tastes like strawberry jam, lavender and white chocolate, and it is our first Direct Trade lot, which is why it matters to us beyond the result.
We are waiting on the paperwork for that one before we say anything more definite about it.
Where to taste them
Both coffees are on the site now, and both are pouring at our Fort Collins shops. If you want the short version of every award and feature we have picked up, it lives on our awards page.
Thank you to Wilder, to the Blandon family, and to everyone who has been drinking this coffee since long before anyone handed out a medal.