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Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Cueva de los Llanos; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Cueva de los Llanos; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Cueva de los Llanos; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇨🇴Colombia · Nariño

Cueva de los Llanos

Roasted by Counter Culture CoffeeRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsColombiaNariñoCaturraCastilloColombia varietyWashedLight roastAlmondMilk ChocolateArabicaSingle originAgrounidos coffee associationCounter Culture CoffeeIndependent

Not tasted. Not scored.

🇨🇴ColombiaWashedLight roast
Brand
Counter Culture Coffee
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇨🇴Colombia
Region
Nariño
Town
—
Farm / Station
—
Farmer / Producer
Agrounidos coffee association
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Caturra, Castillo, and Colombia
Process
Roast
Light
Tasting notes
green grape, almond, milk chocolate
Fermentation
—
Drying
—
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • farm idThis is an association selection from Agrounidos members; the exact release does not identify one farm.
  • individual producersCounter Culture names the 54-member association but not the contributing members for this crop.
  • variety idThe release combines Caturra, Castillo, and Colombia, so no single variety relationship accurately represents it.
  • cultivar proportionsThe proportions of Caturra, Castillo, and Colombia are not published.
  • townThe coffee name references a cave near Buesaco, but the source does not establish Buesaco as the location of every contributing farm.
  • gradeNo formal green-coffee grade is published for this release.
  • altitude mThe source gives a 1,900–2,100 m range; a single point value would be misleading.
  • fermentationWashed processing is stated, but fermentation duration and conditions are not published.
  • drying methodThe exact page does not publish the drying surface or duration.
  • roast dateNo bag-specific roast date was available for the sold-out release.
  • brew recommendationThe outside review used pourover but supplies no complete recipe, and no official exact-release brew recipe was found.
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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
    Cueva de los Llanos
  2. 02
    The brand
    Counter Culture Coffee
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Counter Culture Coffee
  4. 04
    The variety
    Caturra, Castillo, and Colombia
  5. 05
    The farm
    Not disclosed
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Agrounidos coffee association
  7. 07
    The region
    Nariño
  8. 08
    The country
    🇨🇴Colombia
From the producer

Agrounidos is a 54-member producer association on a high ridge in eastern Nariño. Counter Culture began working with the association in 2015 after the CRS Borderlands project introduced it to producers in the region.

From the roaster

Counter Culture Coffee is a specialty roaster based in Durham, North Carolina, known for its commitment to sustainability and direct farmer relationships. They focus on transparency and quality, maintaining regional training centers to support coffee professionals.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

Agrounidos pools smallholder coffees into a yearly selection while investing shared resources in quality and farm sustainability. Documented projects include communal apiaries and 54 vermicomposting systems intended to reduce chemical fertilizer use and recycle organic waste.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Bounded the 2023 association release

Matched Agrounidos, the May–September 2023 harvest, 1,900–2,100 m range, washed process, three cultivars, and green-grape/almond/milk-chocolate profile to Counter Culture’s exact page.

02
Three-part cultivar composition

Structured Caturra, Castillo, and Colombia without inventing percentages or attributing the selection to one member farm.

03
Retail and origin pricing

Recorded the contemporaneous $23 retail price separately from Counter Culture’s $4.35-per-pound FOB green-coffee payment.

04
Reconciled public sentiment

Corrected the contradictory pulse record: one exact independent 4.5/5 review qualifies and normalizes linearly to 90/100 as historical public sentiment, not a house score.

What was added?

No flavoring agents, fruit additions, inoculated cultures, or post-roast flavoring are documented.

What wasn't added?

No single farm, individual contributor, cultivar percentage, point elevation, formal grade, fermentation protocol, drying method, bag-specific roast date, official exact-release brew recipe, or house tasting score was inferred.

Why it matters

Cueva de los Llanos is a recurring association coffee. Anchoring the record to the 2023 crop prevents its facts and one historical review from being mixed with older crops or the later Pink Bourbon microlot.

What you might taste

Counter Culture lists green grape, almond, and milk chocolate. One exact independent review reported smooth balance, restrained acidity, strawberry, caramel, brown sugar, black tea, and pineapple.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://counterculturecoffee.com/products/cueva-de-los-llanos-2
  • · https://coffeeroast.com/roaster/counter-culture/cueva-de-los-llanos
  • · https://counterculturecoffee.com/blogs/seeds-program/apiaries-cueva-de-los-llanos-2021
  • · https://counterculturecoffee.com/blogs/seeds-program/vermicomposting-agrounidos-2022
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

What the internet is saying
WE FOUND 1 RELEVANT PUBLIC SOURCES

AI-synthesized from publicly available information retrieved 2026-11-11. This is research, not our original tasting review.

What the sources say

One verified independent exact-release review rated the 2023 Cueva de los Llanos 4.5/5 and described a smooth, balanced pourover with restrained acidity.

What people love

The reviewer praised smoothness, balance, restrained acidity, and layered strawberry, caramel, brown sugar, black tea, and pineapple character.

Flavors people keep mentioning
smoothbalancedrestrained aciditystrawberrycaramelbrown sugarblack teapineapple
Outside ratings & rankings

Scores remain on their original scales. An outside review, competition score or historical release is not our tasting and cannot safely be merged into one five-star rating.Our method

Internet sentiment

A qualitative summary of public sources, including context. Not a coffee score.

Positive, very low confidence
The sources
  • Coffee publication
    Coffee Roast
    One exact-release pourover review rated Cueva de los Llanos 4.5/5 and described a smooth, balanced, low-acidity cup with strawberry, caramel, brown sugar, black tea, and pineapple. The page matches the documented Nariño origin, washed process, Caturra/Castillo/Colombia varieties, 1,900–2,100 m range, and states a contemporaneous $23 retail price.
    Source
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