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Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for Costa Rica La Bandera Geisha, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Costa Rica La Bandera Geisha; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Costa Rica La Bandera Geisha; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Costa Rica La Bandera Geisha; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇨🇷Costa Rica · Tarrazú

Costa Rica La Bandera Geisha

Roasted by Intelligentsia CoffeeRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsCosta RicaTarrazúGeshaHoneyBrown SugarOrangeArabicaSingle originLa BanderaJesus Ureña HidalgoIntelligentsia CoffeeOwned by Peet's Coffee (JAB Holding Company)
🇨🇷Costa RicaHoneyGesha
Brand
Intelligentsia Coffee
Who owns the brand
A large corporation — Peet's Coffee (JAB Holding Company)
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇨🇷Costa Rica
Region
Tarrazú
Town
Santa María de Dota
Farm / Station
La Bandera
Farmer / Producer
Jesus Ureña Hidalgo
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Gesha
Process
Roast
—
Tasting notes
Apple, Raw Sugar, Candied Orange
Fermentation
—
Drying
—
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • altitude mThe exact Intelligentsia and Cherrybook release records do not publish a numeric elevation; a conflicting third-party 1,920 m listing was not imported.
  • harvestThe exact release sources do not publish a crop year or harvest window.
  • fermentationHoney processing is verified, but fermentation duration, vessel, or protocol is not published.
  • drying methodThe exact release sources do not publish the drying surface or duration.
  • roast levelNo conventional light-to-dark roast level is published for the exact release.
  • gradeNo formal lot grade is published.
  • flavor versionThe live official Apple + Raw Sugar/candied-orange wording differs from an earlier exact catalog snapshot of persimmon, candied orange, and honey; both are labeled by version.
  • public sentimentNo qualifying independent exact-release rating was found; Cherrybook's CBI is not a cup score.
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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
    Costa Rica La Bandera Geisha
  2. 02
    The brand
    Intelligentsia Coffee
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Intelligentsia Coffee
  4. 04
    The variety
    Gesha
  5. 05
    The farm
    La Bandera
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Jesus Ureña Hidalgo
  7. 07
    The region
    Tarrazú
  8. 08
    The country
    🇨🇷Costa Rica
From the producer

Jesús Ureña Hidalgo grows coffee at La Bandera in the El Congo district above Santa María de Dota. For this release, COOPEDOTA separated the farm lot and handled the honey process.

From the roaster

Intelligentsia presented this as its third Costa Rican Geisha offering and emphasized the variety’s sweetness with candied-orange zest.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

A farm-separated Geisha from Jesús Ureña Hidalgo, honey-processed by COOPEDOTA rather than by the unrelated La Bandera micromill profile previously mixed into this page.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Verified the exact release

The live Intelligentsia page confirms Jesús Ureña Hidalgo, La Bandera, El Congo above Santa María de Dota, Geisha, COOPEDOTA honey processing, a $30 price, and sold-out status.

02
Reconciled structured commerce fields

Filled the blank USD price fields with $30 and retained the 340 g package corroborated by the exact Cherrybook catalog record.

03
Separated flavor versions

Updated structured notes to the live page's Apple + Raw Sugar and candied-orange wording while preserving the earlier persimmon, candied orange, and honey snapshot as historical catalog context.

04
Excluded conflicting release data

Did not import a third-party washed/1,920 m record because it conflicts with Intelligentsia's exact honey-process page and does not establish the same release version.

What was added?

Structured $30 USD price, current official flavor wording, refreshed sold-out verification, profile disclosure, and explicit score provenance.

What wasn't added?

No numeric elevation, crop year, fermentation duration, drying method, conventional roast level, formal grade, owner tasting, original score, or public-sentiment rating was inferred.

Why it matters

The current structured fields now agree with the strongest exact-release source while the earlier exact catalog snapshot remains visible as versioned context rather than being silently blended.

What you might taste

The live roaster page says Apple + Raw Sugar with candied-orange sweetness. An earlier exact catalog snapshot lists persimmon, candied orange, and honey. Neither is our tasting.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.intelligentsia.com/products/costa-rica-la-bandera
  • · https://cherrybookcoffee.com/coffee/intelligentsia-costa-rica-la-bandera
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

Cherrybook's exact record was used only for catalog corroboration. Its CBI is explicitly an evidence-quality index and its discussion signals are roaster-level, not an exact-release consumer rating. A seller page has no reviews. No public-sentiment score was created.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: La Bandera →Meet the farmer: Jesus Ureña Hidalgo →
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