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Wilton Benitez Coffee: Where to Buy His Lots Right Now
Wilton Benitez of Granja Paraíso 92 in the Cauca region of Colombia is the most-celebrated specialty coffee producer of the last three years. He has been a multi-year Cup of Excellence Colombia finalist, including a 2021 first-place finish, with podium lots spanning Sudan Rume, Sidra, and Pink Bourbon under various thermal-shock and fermentation protocols. His thermal-shock processing technique (rapid temperature cycling during fermentation) is the method that put his program on the global map. Multiple specialty roasters across the US, Canada, and Australia are currently carrying his lots. We pulled every Wilton Benitez coffee currently in stock across the specialty roasters Cherrybook tracks; below is the cross-roaster picture.
Published 2026-04-30 · By Cherrybook editorial
Who is Wilton Benitez
Wilton Benitez operates Granja Paraíso 92 in the Cauca region of southwestern Colombia, at altitudes between 1,600 and 2,100 meters. His program reached the global stage with a first-place Cup of Excellence Colombia auction lot in 2021, and subsequent COE placements across multiple cultivars and processing protocols confirmed it wasn’t a one-year story.
What makes the Benitez program distinctive isn’t any single varietal; it’s the breadth of experimental processing applied to a portfolio of cultivars including Pink Bourbon, Red Bourbon, Caturra, Sidra, Sudan Rume, and Striped Borbón. Within the catalog we’ve seen lots processed as natural, washed, anaerobic natural, anaerobic washed, double anaerobic, thermal shock washed, EA decaf, and various hybrids. Each lot is intentionally engineered for specific aromatic targets rather than processed to a default.
The full data picture, including all archived lots and a per-roaster cross-comparison, lives on the Wilton Benitez producer page.
In-stock right now
Sorted by Cherry’s Index. Five roasters, five different process and varietal angles on the same producer’s green coffee.
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CaucaWilton BenitezexperimentalCherry's Index 73$4.54/oz
The flagship Wilton Benitez lot in our index right now. Modcup's Granja Paraíso 92 Pink Bourbon at $4.54/oz with a Cherry's Index of 87 is the single best in-stock representation of what made Benitez famous: thermal-shock washed processing on his own farm's Pink Bourbon trees. Modcup (Jersey City) is one of the few US roasters with consistent direct-relationship access to Granja Paraíso 92; this is the production-quality version of the lot that placed first at Cup of Excellence Colombia 2021.
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Wilton Benitezanaerobic naturalCherry's Index 78$1.64/oz
The decaf option from a serious specialty buyer. Rogue Wave Coffee in Edmonton has built one of the deepest Wilton Benitez programs in North America (more lots from Granja Paraíso 92 than anyone else in our catalog at any moment), and their EA-decaffeinated Red Bourbon at $1.74/oz is unusual: it's a producer-attributable decaf at a value price tier. The anaerobic natural fermentation survives EA decaffeination cleanly. Buy this if you want to taste the Benitez profile without the caffeine.
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CaucaWilton Benitezanaerobic washedCherry's Index 76$4.01/oz
Five Senses (Melbourne) carries a washed thermal-shock lot at $3.74/oz. The thermo-shock washed process is Benitez's signature technique: rapid hot/cold cycling during fermentation that locks in the cultivar's florality. Five Senses' Australian roasting program runs slightly more developed than American-style Benitez roasts, which makes this the version most milk-friendly on this list. Notable as the only non-North-American roaster currently carrying a Benitez lot in the catalog.
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CaucaWilton Benitezanaerobic naturalCherry's Index 83$6.53/oz
The prestige variety entry. Devoción (Brooklyn) is carrying Striped Borbón from Benitez at $6.53/oz, anaerobic natural process. Striped Borbón is a phenotype expression of standard Borbón; rare on its own, much rarer in the Wilton Benitez catalog. Devoción's program is built on direct producer relationships and editorial transparency, and a Striped Borbón placement is itself a signal that the green relationship is mature. The most expensive lot on this list, but distinctive cultivar territory.
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CaucaWilton Benitezanaerobic washedCherry's Index 92$2.65/oz
Detour Coffee (Hamilton, Ontario) has an anaerobic-washed Granja Paraíso 92 decaf labeled Superbrew at $2.65/oz, Cherry's Index 73. Anaerobic washed is the cleaner cousin of the anaerobic natural in the Rogue Wave decaf above; same producer, same farm, different fermentation. Two decafs from the same producer at different price tiers tells the breadth of how Benitez's program now spans format and process. Detour is the smaller-roaster value entry in this batch.
What to pick if you’ve never tried his coffee
Start with the Modcup lot. The thermal-shock washed Pink Bourbon at a Cherry’s Index of 87 is the cleanest representation of what made Wilton Benitez famous; the cultivar, the farm, the process, all aligned. Once you have that reference cup, the Five Senses thermal-shock washed lot reads as a more milk-friendly variation of the same idea, and the Devoción Striped Borbón shows you how the program extends beyond Pink Bourbon. The two decaf lots (Rogue Wave and Detour) are for buyers who want the producer profile in a caffeine-free format, a specialty category that simply didn’t exist five years ago.
More producer-tracking on Cherrybook
Cherrybook’s producer pages aggregate every roaster currently selling a given producer’s lots, with cross-roaster Cherry’s Index comparison, COE history, and varietal fingerprint per producer. Browse all producers in our index or jump to a few of the most-celebrated names of 2026:
Methodology: lots pulled from the Cherrybook catalog as of April 30, 2026. Cherry’s Index is a per-bean composite of SCA scores, Coffee Review, Reddit sentiment, sensory inference, accolades, and community ratings. Prices reflect the roaster’s published checkout at the time of writing. Catalog updates daily, so by the time you read this, some lots may have sold out and others may have been added.
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