ABHORRENT GENESIS, Bolivia

White Grape, Floral, Candied Orange

Abhorrent Genesis is a 60kg nanolot from Waliki, a young farm established in 2016 by Pedro Rodriguez and his family, who also run the Bolivian exporter Agricafe. The name comes from the Aymara greeting 'Waliki', loosely 'all good', and the farm sits in the colonia of Bolinda, a steep green valley about ten kilometres from Caranavi in the La Paz department.

Waliki is terraced down its slope and planted by elevation: Java at the top, pink and yellow Bourbon below, and Panama Gesha at the base. Pickers trained by the family make multiple passes for only the ripest cherry, and Pedro, drawing on winemaking, treats each lot as an experiment in distinction.

Cherry is delivered each evening to Agricafe's Buena Vista mill, where it is weighed, cleaned and fermented anaerobically in steel tanks for 96 hours under an oenologist's watch, then dried slowly to 11.5 percent in a custom dehydrator. The result is white grape, floral aromatics and candied orange.