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

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Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for La Merced; not a documentary photograph

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🇬🇹Guatemala · Chimaltenango

La Merced

Roasted by Market Lane CoffeeRoaster's website

TRADITIONAL PROCESS

TagsGuatemala Chimaltenango Bourbon Natural Plum Cherry Arabica Single origin La Merced Alburez-Ortega Family Market Lane Coffee

🇬🇹GuatemalaNaturalBourbon

Brand

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Roaster website

Visit website

Country

🇬🇹Guatemala

Region

Chimaltenango

Town

San Martín Jilotepeque

Farm / Station

La Merced

Farmer / Producer

Alburez-Ortega Family

Species

Arabica

Type

Single origin

Grade

Not specified

Variety

Bourbon

Process

Roast

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Tasting notes

Guava, Plum, Cherry

Fermentation

Whole cherries rested overnight in permeable nylon sacks in a cool, dry place before drying; the source describes this as stabilization rather than a timed fermentation claim.

Drying

Raised beds and patios for up to 22 days

Product page

Roaster's site

Date reviewed

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Why some details are blank

altitude mThe sourcing partner publishes a 1,500–1,700 m farm range; no midpoint was invented.
harvest yearThe source publishes January–April timing but not the crop year for this release.
roast levelMarket Lane labels this as filter beans but does not publish a conventional roast level.
fermentation protocolThe source describes an overnight rest for temperature stabilization but does not publish a controlled fermentation protocol.
price usdThe exact retail offer is AUD 32; no time-sensitive currency conversion was persisted as product price.
brew recommendationNo exact-release brewing recipe was published.
public sentiment ratingNo independent exact-release review or transparent consumer rating set 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.

01
The name on the bag
La Merced
Named on the bag
02
The brand
Not disclosed
Not disclosed
03
The roaster
Market Lane Coffee
Documented
04
The variety
Bourbon
Documented
05
The farm
La Merced
Documented
06
The farmer
Alburez-Ortega Family
Documented
07
The region
Chimaltenango
Documented
08
The country
🇬🇹Guatemala
Documented

From the producer

The Alburez-Ortega family has held the estate since 1832; the fourth generation took over in 1996 and later established an on-site wet mill.

From the roaster

Origin: Chimaltenango, Guatemala. Variety: Bourbon. Processing Method: Natural. Producer: Alburez-Ortega Family. Relationship Length: Since 2022.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

A natural-process Bourbon from a four-generation Guatemalan estate whose current family team controls processing on site.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

Verified exact identity

Confirmed Finca La Merced, the Alburez-Ortega family, Bourbon, natural processing, and Market Lane's guava, plum, and cherry descriptors.

Normalized origin fields

Stored Chimaltenango as the department/subregion and San Martín Jilotepeque as the municipality/town while retaining the Acatenango region relationship.

Reconciled availability

Changed the stale Available value to Sold out after the exact roaster URL returned 404 and current catalog monitors placed the coffee out of stock.

Kept price and scores honest

Preserved the documented AUD 32 / 250 g price in local-currency fields; no USD conversion, original tasting score, or public sentiment score was inferred.

What was added?

Current sold-out status, normalized Chimaltenango and San Martín Jilotepeque fields, and refreshed provenance notes.

What wasn't added?

No crop year, point elevation, conventional roast level, controlled-fermentation claim, USD conversion, brew recipe, owner score, or public sentiment rating was inferred.

Why it matters

The structured profile now agrees with the current commercial evidence while retaining the exact farm, family, variety, process, and local-currency price.

What you might taste

Market Lane lists guava, plum, and cherry in a heavy-bodied cup.

Sources for these process claims

· https://marketlane.com.au/collections/filter-beans/products/la-merced
· https://melbournecoffeemerchants.com.au/coffee/la-merced-natural/
· https://cherrybookcoffee.com/coffee/market-lane-la-merced
· https://www.coffeedb.pro/roasters/market-lane-coffee

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 2026-11-10) 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

Cherrybook's 69 is labeled an evidence-of-quality index rather than a cup score. Its Reddit evidence concerns Market Lane generally, not this coffee. Seller, supply-chain, catalog, and generic-roaster sources were excluded from sentiment scoring.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: La Merced →Meet the farmer: Alburez-Ortega Family →

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La Merced

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