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Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for Antonio Medina, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Antonio Medina; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Antonio Medina; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Antonio Medina; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇬🇹Guatemala · Antigua

Antonio Medina

Roasted by Sweet Bloom Coffee RoastersRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsGuatemalaAntiguaWashedCaramelArabicaSingle originLa ColinaAntonio MedinaSweet Bloom Coffee RoastersIndependentVariety undisclosed
🇬🇹GuatemalaWashed
Brand
Sweet Bloom Coffee Roasters
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇬🇹Guatemala
Region
Antigua
Town
Antigua
Farm / Station
La Colina
Farmer / Producer
Antonio Medina
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
—
Variety
—
Process
Roast
—
Tasting notes
golden raisin, pink lady, toffee, caramel, fresh cut apples
Fermentation
—
Drying
—
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • varietySweet Bloom does not disclose the cultivar for this exact 2026 release; farm-level and 2025 variety lists were not substituted.
  • harvestThe exact harvest date or crop window is not published on the release page.
  • fermentationThe release is identified as washed, but fermentation duration and vessel are not disclosed.
  • drying methodSweet Bloom does not publish the drying method for this exact release.
  • roast levelThe page presents a graphical light-to-medium scale without an unambiguous text value that maps cleanly to the site enum.
  • roast dateNo bag-specific roast date is available.
  • gradeThe exact release does not publish a formal export or competition grade.
  • sentiment ratingNo independently authored review or transparent rating sample was verified for this exact 2026 release.
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The transparency chain

FROM THE BAG
BACK TO THE LAND.

Every link we could verify, traced in one place. Follow the chain as far as it goes — when the industry doesn't disclose a link, we say so instead of guessing.

  1. 01
    The name on the bag
    Antonio Medina
  2. 02
    The brand
    Sweet Bloom Coffee Roasters
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Sweet Bloom Coffee Roasters
  4. 04
    The variety
    Not disclosed
  5. 05
    The farm
    La Colina
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Antonio Medina
  7. 07
    The region
    Antigua
  8. 08
    The country
    🇬🇹Guatemala
From the producer

Antonio Medina has been farming coffee since 1991, when he planted his first trees on land divided from his father's farm. He has since realized his dream of managing his own farm, La Colina, and maintains a consistent relationship with Sweet Bloom Coffee Roasters.

From the roaster

Sweet Bloom presents this 2026 La Colina release as a sweet, balanced comfort coffee, with golden raisin, Pink Lady apple and toffee notes plus caramel and fresh-cut-apple aromatics.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

Sweet Bloom’s first new-crop Central American selection of 2026 combines exact farm and producer attribution, release-specific brew recipes and an unusually detailed cost breakdown while leaving cultivar and post-harvest specifics appropriately unresolved.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Exact 2026 release

Matched Sweet Bloom’s archived Antonio Medina page and confirmed La Colina, Antigua, washed processing, 1,700 m, the July 30, 2026 archive date and unavailable state.

02
Offer structured

Recorded the exact base offer as $21 for 10 oz (283 g). Larger historical variants remain outside the single base-offer fields.

03
Producer relationship

Sweet Bloom says Antonio planted his first coffee tree in 1991 and that its relationship with him dates to 2022.

04
Brew and cost transparency

Preserved Sweet Bloom’s exact Origami Air and espresso recipes and documented its $10.86/lb total cost breakdown: $5.50 green coffee, $0.30 transportation and $5.06 production.

What was added?

Exact base price and size, producer relationship history, brew recipes and the roaster’s published cost breakdown.

What wasn't added?

No cultivar, harvest, roast date, fermentation protocol, drying method, formal grade or owner tasting observation was inferred.

Why it matters

Release-specific facts prevent details from 2025 Antonio Medina crops or other La Colina roasters from being silently attached to Sweet Bloom’s 2026 lot.

What you might taste

Sweet Bloom publishes golden raisin, Pink Lady apple, toffee, caramel and fresh-cut apple; these are roaster notes, not an owner tasting claim.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://sweetbloomcoffee.com/products/antonio-medina-26
  • · https://thepress.coffee/coffees/sweet-bloom-coffee-antonio-medina/
Coffee profile

In the database. Not tasted. Not scored.

This coffee is in our database because we can reliably document it — but we haven't tasted and scored it yet, and we never publish a score we haven't earned.

Outside reviews and internet discussion — is kept clearly separate from our own review. When we taste it, our full review appears here.

The internet pulse

What the internet is saying about this coffee

Research complete — no qualifying reviews yet

Our research pipeline scanned public reviews, videos, forums and discussions for this coffee (last pass 2026-11-06) and found no independent review of this exact release that meets our verification standards. When qualifying sources appear, they'll be published here.

What we found

Independently logged Sweet Bloom Antonio Medina cuppings were dated July 2025 and describe an older crop, so they were excluded. Cherrybook’s evidence index, catalog data and roaster-authored notes were not treated as independent exact-release cup scores.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: La Colina →Meet the farmer: Antonio Medina →
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