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Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for El Salvador Santa Rosa Honey, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for El Salvador Santa Rosa Honey; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for El Salvador Santa Rosa Honey; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for El Salvador Santa Rosa Honey; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇸🇻El Salvador · Chalatenango

El Salvador Santa Rosa Honey

Roasted by Onyx Coffee LabRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsEl SalvadorChalatenangoPacamaraHoneyRoseVanillaArabicaSingle originFinca Santa RosaJorge Raul RiveraOnyx Coffee LabIndependent
🇸🇻El SalvadorHoneyPacamara
Brand
Onyx Coffee Lab
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇸🇻El Salvador
Region
Chalatenango
Town
—
Farm / Station
Finca Santa Rosa
Farmer / Producer
Jorge Raul Rivera
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Pacamara
Process
Roast
—
Tasting notes
Red Grape, Rose, Mulberry, Vanilla
Fermentation
Red-honey process: depulped with pectin retained before drying
Drying
Covered raised-bed dried for about fifteen days
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • gradeThe exact current release does not publish a formal export or competition grade.
  • roast dateNo bag-specific roast date is available for the current retail unit.
  • sentiment ratingIndependent tasting reports found for the recurring name refer to older releases with different published flavor sets, not this current 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
    El Salvador Santa Rosa Honey
  2. 02
    The brand
    Onyx Coffee Lab
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Onyx Coffee Lab
  4. 04
    The variety
    Pacamara
  5. 05
    The farm
    Finca Santa Rosa
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Jorge Raul Rivera
  7. 07
    The region
    Chalatenango
  8. 08
    The country
    🇸🇻El Salvador
From the producer

Finca Santa Rosa is owned and operated by Jorge Raul Rivera, a long-term partner of the roaster located in the northern mountains of El Salvador.

From the roaster

The roaster notes a decade-long relationship with Finca Santa Rosa, highlighting precise agronomic and processing practices that allow day-specific lot building.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

A Pacamara relationship coffee built from Santa Rosa's strongest day lots. Onyx says its partnership with Jorge Raul Rivera spans more than a decade and selects only washed and honey Pacamara lots scoring at least 87 in its internal green-coffee evaluation.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Day-lot separation

Santa Rosa separates coffees by picking and processing day so Onyx can evaluate individual lots.

02
Depulping

The coffee fruit is removed while the pectin-rich mucilage remains on the seed.

03
Red-honey drying

The parchment dries on covered raised beds for about fifteen days.

What was added?

Nothing is described as added to the coffee.

What wasn't added?

No fruit, flavoring, or external adjunct is documented.

Why it matters

Leaving mucilage on during controlled drying supports sweetness and complexity while preserving Pacamara character.

What you might taste

Onyx lists red grape, rose, mulberry, and vanilla.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://onyxcoffeelab.com/products/el-salvador-santa-rosa-honey-26
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 2026-10-28) 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

Protected editorial evidence summary restored after a concurrent process overwrote verified counts. No seller, marketplace, directory, duplicate, repeated-thread, or different-release evidence is counted, and no score was inferred beyond documented source values.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Finca Santa Rosa →Meet the farmer: Jorge Raul Rivera →
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