Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for Bolivia Sol de la Mañana, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Bolivia Sol de la Mañana; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇧🇴Bolivia

Bolivia Sol de la Mañana

Roasted by Intelligentsia CoffeeRoaster's website

PROCESS NOT FULLY DISCLOSED

TagsBolivia Samaipata Java Orange Brown Sugar Milk Chocolate Arabica Single origin Rodríguez Family Intelligentsia Coffee Owned by Peet's Coffee (JAB Holding Company)

🇧🇴BoliviaJava

Brand

Intelligentsia Coffee

Who owns the brand

A large corporation — Peet's Coffee (JAB Holding Company)

Roaster website

Visit website

Country

🇧🇴Bolivia

Region

Samaipata

Town

—

Farm / Station

—

Farmer / Producer

Rodríguez Family

Species

Arabica

Type

Single origin

Grade

—

Variety

Java

Process

—

Roast

—

Tasting notes

Orange, Raw Sugar, Milk Chocolate

Fermentation

—

Drying

—

Product page

Roaster's site

Date reviewed

—

Why some details are blank

PRODUCT IDENTITYThe Sol de la Mañana and Samaipata Java URLs currently repeat the same narrative at different prices; no lot or harvest identifier resolves whether they are duplicate handles or separate releases.
FARMThe current page names the Rodríguez family but not one of its Samaipata farms.
PROCESSThe current exact page does not publish a process; washed applies only to the materially different 2021 Taipiplaya release.
ALTITUDEThe current exact page publishes no lot-level elevation; the 1,750–2,000 m range belongs to the older Taipiplaya release.
HARVESTNo crop year or harvest window is published for the current release; September 2020 applies only to the older reviewed coffee.
FERMENTATIONNo current-release fermentation environment, duration, vessel, temperature or inoculation is published.
DRYING METHODNo current-release drying surface, shade level, duration or endpoint is published.
FORMAL GRADEThe current exact page does not publish a formal green-coffee or cupping grade.
ROAST LEVELIntelligentsia does not state a conventional roast category; the 2021 reviewer’s Light label belongs to the older release.
PUBLIC SENTIMENT RATINGThe 9/10 independent review is for a different 2021 formulation; current catalog indexes and no-review entries do not qualify as current-release ratings.

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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
Bolivia Sol de la Mañana
Named on the bag
02
The brand
Intelligentsia Coffee
Documented
03
The roaster
Intelligentsia Coffee
Documented
04
The variety
Java
Documented
05
The farm
Not disclosed
Not disclosed
06
The farmer
Rodríguez Family
Documented
07
The region
Samaipata
Named on the bag
08
The country
🇧🇴Bolivia
Documented

From the producer

The Rodríguez family is Intelligentsia's longest-standing direct-trade partner in Bolivia. This release comes from their Java plantings in Samaipata rather than from the Caranavi smallholder program that also uses the Sol de la Mañana name.

From the roaster

Intelligentsia presents this as a single-origin Samaipata Java with orange, raw sugar and milk chocolate.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

The release shows the Rodríguez family's expansion beyond Bolivia's traditional Caranavi origin into Samaipata, where the Andes meet the Amazon.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

Verified the current URL

Added the live $23 USD price, retained the documented 340 g format, removed the placeholder grade and refreshed sold-out status through October 29, 2026.

Documented the duplicate narrative

Recorded that Intelligentsia’s Sol de la Mañana and Samaipata Java pages currently carry the same Rodríguez-family Java origin and sensory copy under different titles and prices.

Separated the historical coffee

Kept the 2021 Taipiplaya washed smallholder release and its 9/10 review out of the current Samaipata Java facts and sentiment.

Protected undisclosed lot details

Retained the exact current Rodríguez family and Java connections but did not assign a farm, process, altitude, harvest, fermentation or drying method.

What was added?

Verified structured pricing, refreshed availability, explicit product-handle conflict documentation and release-specific sentiment exclusions.

What wasn't added?

No farm, process, altitude, crop year, fermentation, drying method, formal grade, roast label, owner score or public cup score was inferred.

Why it matters

The Sol de la Mañana name spans materially different Intelligentsia releases. Separating the current repurposed listing from the reviewed 2021 coffee prevents false provenance and score transfer.

What you might taste

The current exact page’s detailed copy says orange, raw sugar and milk chocolate; its generic flavor label separately says Apple + Raw Sugar.

Sources for these process claims

· https://www.intelligentsia.com/products/bolivia-sol-de-la-manana
· https://www.intelligentsia.com/products/bolivia-samaipata-java
· https://cherrybookcoffee.com/coffee/intelligentsia-bolivia-sol-de-la-manana
· https://pullandpourcoffee.com/bolivia-sol-de-la-manana-intelligentsia/
· https://www.beanswithbeanie.com/coffee/bolivia-sol-de-la-manana-intelligentsia-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 2026-10-29) 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

Pull & Pour’s 9/10 review is exact to the Sol de la Mañana name but documents a materially different 2021 Taipiplaya washed smallholder coffee with Caturra, Catuaí and Typica, so it is excluded from the current release. Beans with Beanie reports no ratings for the current Samaipata Java identity. Cherrybook’s 63 CBI is a sparse evidence index using roaster-wide and transparency signals, not an exact-coffee cup score.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farmer: Rodríguez Family →

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Bolivia Sol de la Mañana

FROM THE BAGBACK TO THE LAND.

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLYDO TO THIS COFFEE?

In the database. Not tasted. Not scored.

What the internet is saying about this coffee

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