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Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for Costa Rica Providencia Honey, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Costa Rica Providencia Honey; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Costa Rica Providencia Honey; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Costa Rica Providencia Honey; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇨🇷Costa Rica · Tarrazú

Costa Rica Providencia Honey

Roasted by Intelligentsia CoffeeRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsCosta RicaTarrazúHoneyBrown SugarCherryArabicaSingle originCoopedotaIntelligentsia CoffeeOwned by Peet's Coffee (JAB Holding Company)
🇨🇷Costa RicaHoney
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
—
Farm / Station
—
Farmer / Producer
Coopedota
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
—
Variety
—
Process
Roast
—
Tasting notes
Apple, Raw Sugar, Dried Cherry
Fermentation
—
Drying
—
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • VARIETYThe exact-release sources do not disclose a cultivar. Coopedota-wide variety lists were not forced onto this lot.
  • FARMThe release identifies member smallholders in an unnamed forest reserve but no individual farm or grower.
  • ALTITUDENo lot-specific elevation is disclosed; Coopedota-wide elevation ranges are context only.
  • HARVESTNo exact-release harvest date or crop year is disclosed; cooperative-wide peak harvest is not lot evidence.
  • FERMENTATIONHoney processing is identified, but no fermentation duration, vessel or inoculation information is published.
  • DRYING METHODThe exact release does not publish its drying surface, duration or moisture endpoint.
  • FORMAL GRADENo formal green-coffee grade is published for this exact release.
  • ROAST LEVELIntelligentsia does not state a conventional roast category for this product.
  • PUBLIC SENTIMENT RATINGNo independent exact-release tasting review was verified; catalog evidence indexes and roaster-wide sentiment were excluded.
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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 Providencia Honey
  2. 02
    The brand
    Intelligentsia Coffee
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Intelligentsia Coffee
  4. 04
    The variety
    Not disclosed
  5. 05
    The farm
    Not disclosed
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Coopedota
  7. 07
    The region
    Tarrazú
  8. 08
    The country
    🇨🇷Costa Rica
From the producer

Coopedota honey-processed and marketed coffee grown by member smallholders. The cooperative’s current official site says it represents more than 1,160 coffee-growing families across Dota, Tarrazú and León Cortés; that organization-wide figure is broader than the unnamed contributors to this exact release.

From the roaster

Intelligentsia presents this honey-processed coffee as an example of quality-focused collaboration among smallholder growers, the cooperative and the roaster.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

This coffee highlights the results of collaborative efforts between smallholder farmers in a forest reserve and a cooperative dedicated to identifying and marketing high-quality lots.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Verified the current offer

Added the live $19 USD price, retained the 340 g bag, and refreshed sold-out status through October 29, 2026.

02
Kept provenance exact

Linked the existing Coopedota producer and Tarrazú region while leaving farm, grower and town blank because the release names only member smallholders in an unnamed forest reserve.

03
Separated lot facts from cooperative context

Recorded honey processing and release notes, but did not import Coopedota-wide elevation, harvest or cultivar ranges into the exact coffee.

04
Screened outside scores

Excluded catalog evidence indexes and roaster-wide discussion; no independent exact-release tasting review remains.

What was added?

Verified structured pricing, refreshed availability, current cooperative context and five sourced editorial sections.

What wasn't added?

No farm, named grower, cultivar, lot elevation, harvest, fermentation, drying method, formal grade, conventional roast level, owner score or outside rating was inferred.

Why it matters

The profile now distinguishes an exact Coopedota community release from broader cooperative facts and avoids presenting an unnamed smallholder lot as a single farm.

What you might taste

Intelligentsia currently highlights apple and raw sugar; exact catalog-era material also records dried cherry.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.intelligentsia.com/products/costa-rica-providencia-honey
  • · https://www.intelligentsia.com/pages/costa-rica-origin
  • · https://www.coopedota.com/sobre-coopedota/
  • · https://www.beanswithbeanie.com/coffee/costa-rica-providencia-honey-intelligentsia-coffee
  • · https://cherrybookcoffee.com/coffee/intelligentsia-costa-rica-providencia-honey
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

Beans with Beanie is an exact-product catalog but reports no ratings or written reviews. Cherrybook’s 64 is explicitly an evidence-of-quality index, not a cup score, and uses roaster-wide signals. Seller, directory, generic-roaster, duplicate and different-release sources were excluded.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farmer: Coopedota →
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