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

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

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

Editorial illustration

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

Editorial illustration

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

Editorial illustration

🇨🇴Colombia · Nariño

Colombia Nariño Castillo

Roasted by Intelligentsia CoffeeRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsColombiaNariñoCastilloWashedOrangeCherryCaramelArabicaSingle originIntelligentsia CoffeeOwned by Peet's Coffee (JAB Holding Company)
🇨🇴ColombiaWashedCastillo
Brand
Intelligentsia Coffee
Who owns the brand
A large corporation — Peet's Coffee (JAB Holding Company)
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇨🇴Colombia
Region
Nariño
Town
—
Farm / Station
—
Farmer / Producer
—
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Castillo
Process
Roast
—
Tasting notes
Orange, Dried Cherry, Caramel
Fermentation
—
Drying
—
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • altitude mIntelligentsia says only that the coffee comes from Nariño's high elevations; the exact product page does not supply a numeric lot elevation.
  • farm idThe exact farm is not disclosed on the exact product page.
  • producer idThe exact producer or producer group is not disclosed on the exact product page.
  • harvestThe exact harvest window is not disclosed.
  • fermentationMeticulous washing is documented, but lot-specific fermentation details are not disclosed.
  • drying methodThe exact drying method is not disclosed.
  • roast levelThe roaster publishes its proprietary Comforting category, not a conventional light-to-dark roast label.
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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
    Colombia Nariño Castillo
  2. 02
    The brand
    Intelligentsia Coffee
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Intelligentsia Coffee
  4. 04
    The variety
    Castillo
  5. 05
    The farm
    Not disclosed
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Not disclosed
  7. 07
    The region
    Nariño
  8. 08
    The country
    🇨🇴Colombia
From the roaster

Intelligentsia presents this coffee as a refined example of Colombian craftsmanship, emphasizing the meticulous washing process used to highlight the inherent qualities of the Castillo bean.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

A transparent regional expression of Castillo, pairing the variety’s disease resilience with Nariño’s high-elevation growing conditions and clean washed processing.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Verified the exact product listing

Intelligentsia's exact page confirms the $23 price, sold-out status, Castillo identity, Nariño origin, meticulous washing, Comforting house profile, and orange, dried cherry, and caramel notes.

02
Reconciled structured price data

Filled the blank USD price fields with the $23 price already stated in the page narrative and exact product source.

03
Kept roast language source-faithful

Preserved Intelligentsia's proprietary Comforting category in prose rather than mapping it to a conventional light-to-dark roast level.

04
Tightened provenance boundaries

Removed an ambiguous seller URL and retained only the exact product page, Intelligentsia's release story, and an exact-coffee catalog record.

What was added?

Structured $23 USD price, refreshed sold-out verification, current research dates, and explicit score provenance.

What wasn't added?

No producer, farm, numeric elevation, harvest, fermentation protocol, drying method, conventional roast level, owner tasting, owner approval, original score, or public-sentiment rating was inferred.

Why it matters

The structured commerce fields now agree with the sourced editorial copy while subjective and lot-specific fields remain clearly separated from unsupported inference.

What you might taste

Intelligentsia lists orange, dried cherry, and caramel; these are roaster notes, not our tasting observations.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.intelligentsia.com/products/colombia-narino-castillo
  • · https://www.intelligentsia.com/blogs/stories/persephone-blend-2025
  • · https://cherrybookcoffee.com/coffee/intelligentsia-colombia-narino-castillo
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 2026-11-02) 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

The exact Cherrybook catalog page was used only to corroborate catalog facts. Its CBI is not a cup score, and its Reddit signal concerns the roaster generally rather than this exact coffee, so neither was converted into a public-sentiment rating.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

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