Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for Colombia Juan Martín Castillo, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Colombia Juan Martín Castillo; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇨🇴Colombia · Cauca

Colombia Juan Martín Castillo

Roasted by Intelligentsia CoffeeRoaster's website

EXPERIMENTAL PROCESS

TagsColombia Cauca Castillo Anaerobic Caramel Arabica Single origin Finca Juan Martín Banexport Intelligentsia Coffee Owned by Peet's Coffee (JAB Holding Company)

🇨🇴ColombiaAnaerobicCastillo

Brand

Intelligentsia Coffee

Who owns the brand

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

Roaster website

Visit website

Country

🇨🇴Colombia

Region

Cauca

Town

Sotará

Farm / Station

Finca Juan Martín

Farmer / Producer

Banexport

Species

Arabica

Type

Single origin

Grade

Not specified

Variety

Castillo

Process

Roast

—

Tasting notes

Caramel, Stone Fruit

Fermentation

Novel anaerobic fermentation; duration, vessel, temperature, inoculation, and oxygen protocol not disclosed.

Drying

—

Product page

Roaster's site

Date reviewed

—

Why some details are blank

gradeNo exact source publishes a formal green-coffee or cupping grade.
altitude mFinca Juan Martín is broadly documented around 2,050 m, but the exact Castillo release does not publish a lot-specific elevation.
harvestNo exact source identifies a crop or harvest year for this product handle.
fermentationAnaerobic fermentation is supported, but duration, vessel, temperature, inoculation, and oxygen protocol are not disclosed.
final processing sequenceAn exact catalog says anaerobic natural, an earlier roaster capture says novel anaerobic fermentation, and the independent review says washed; no harvest identifier resolves the conflict.
drying methodNo exact archived release source publishes a drying surface, duration, shade level, or endpoint.
roast levelNo exact roaster source publishes a conventional light, medium, or dark label; the reviewer’s Light Medium classification is historical third-party metadata.
roast dateNo bag-specific roast date is available.
release chronologyThe earlier Caramel + Stone Fruit profile differs from the archived blackberry, cherry, and tangerine notes, and no harvest identifier proves continuity.

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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
Colombia Juan Martín Castillo
Named on the bag
02
The brand
Intelligentsia Coffee
Documented
03
The roaster
Intelligentsia Coffee
Documented
04
The variety
Castillo
Documented
05
The farm
Finca Juan Martín
Documented
06
The farmer
Banexport
Documented
07
The region
Cauca
Documented
08
The country
🇨🇴Colombia
Documented

From the producer

Finca Juan Martín is owned and operated by Banexport as an experimental farm and innovation center in Sotará, Cauca.

From the roaster

Intelligentsia is a specialty coffee roaster that has maintained a partnership with Banexport since 2010. They prioritize direct sourcing and innovation, frequently highlighting experimental lots from the Cauca region.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

Intelligentsia’s first single-variety Castillo release, using a novel anaerobic fermentation at Banexport’s experimental farm.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

Filled verified commerce fields

Corrected the empty structured price to $22 USD, retained the exact catalog’s 340 g package, and refreshed sold-out verification.

Preserved the release conflict

Kept the earlier roaster-page Caramel + Stone Fruit presentation separate from the exact catalog’s blackberry, cherry, tangerine, and anaerobic-natural classification; no harvest identifier proves continuity.

Reconciled public sentiment

Corrected the zero-source sentiment block to one exact independent historical review: 4.5/5, normalized linearly to 90/100, with its washed-process conflict disclosed.

Protected house-review fields

Kept the owner review status, score, tasting ratings, verdict, and review date unchanged.

What was added?

$22 structured price, USD currency, refreshed sold-out status, one historical exact-name sentiment source, transparent 90/100 normalization, and explicit Medium confidence.

What wasn't added?

No lot-specific elevation, harvest, fermentation duration or vessel, definitive final process sequence, drying method, formal grade, conventional roast level, roast date, or owner score was inferred.

Why it matters

The page now separates commerce facts, conflicting archived release metadata, and independent historical sentiment instead of presenting them as one composite current lot.

What you might taste

The earlier roaster capture used Caramel + Stone Fruit; the exact archived catalog preserves blackberry, cherry, and tangerine; the independent historical reviewer reported chocolate, blueberry, raspberry, and sugarcane.

Sources for these process claims

· https://www.intelligentsia.com/products/colombia-juan-martin-castillo
· https://cherrybookcoffee.com/coffee/intelligentsia-colombia-juan-martin-castillo
· https://coffeeroast.com/roaster/intelligentsia-coffee/colombia-juan-martin-castillo
· https://www.intelligentsia.com/blogs/stories/colombia-striped-red-bourbon

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 2026-10-31) 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

Non-exact, seller, directory, generic-roaster, different-release, duplicate, and older-release sources were excluded. No qualifying independent exact-release review remains.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Finca Juan Martín →Meet the farmer: Banexport →

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