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Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for Colombia El Vergel Yirgacheffe Natural, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Colombia El Vergel Yirgacheffe Natural; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Colombia El Vergel Yirgacheffe Natural; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Colombia El Vergel Yirgacheffe Natural; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇨🇴Colombia · Tolima

Colombia El Vergel Yirgacheffe Natural

Roasted by Onyx Coffee LabRoaster's website
EXPERIMENTAL PROCESS
TagsColombiaTolimaEthiopian LandracesNaturalLight roastStrawberryDark ChocolateArabicaSingle originEl VergelBayter brothersOnyx Coffee LabIndependentVariety undisclosed
🇨🇴ColombiaNaturalEthiopian LandracesLight roast
Brand
Onyx Coffee Lab
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇨🇴Colombia
Region
Tolima
Town
—
Farm / Station
El Vergel
Farmer / Producer
Bayter brothers
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Ethiopian Landraces
Process
Roast
Light
Tasting notes
Strawberry, Dark Chocolate, Acai, Umeshu
Fermentation
Intact cherry; 36 hours of limited-oxygen fermentation
Drying
Raised beds and patios for approximately 20 days
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • varietyThe roaster discloses only a landrace/Yirgacheffe selection, not a narrower cultivar identity.
  • harvest yearThe exact product page gives June as the harvest season but does not identify the crop year.
  • public sentimentExact independent catalog sources contain no scored review for this release.
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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 El Vergel Yirgacheffe Natural
  2. 02
    The brand
    Onyx Coffee Lab
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Onyx Coffee Lab
  4. 04
    The variety
    Ethiopian Landraces
  5. 05
    The farm
    El Vergel
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Bayter brothers
  7. 07
    The region
    Tolima
  8. 08
    The country
    🇨🇴Colombia
From the producer

The Bayter family manages El Vergel in Tolima and has developed a reputation for agronomic experimentation and careful processing. This lot uses a landrace selection originating from Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia, cultivated at the Colombian estate.

From the roaster

Onyx Coffee Lab presents this selection as an exploration of how Ethiopian coffee varieties express themselves when grown in the distinct environment of the Colombian Andes.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

The lot pairs Ethiopian landrace genetics with El Vergel’s Tolima terroir and a disclosed 36-hour limited-oxygen natural process, offering an exact example of variety migration and producer-led processing experimentation.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Identity checked

Matched the exact Onyx archive to El Vergel, the Bayter family, Tolima, and a landrace selection from Yirgacheffe.

02
Structured fields completed

Connected existing Tolima and Ethiopian Landraces records and added elevation, harvest, fermentation, drying, price, bag size and availability.

03
Sentiment separated

Recorded a zero-source sentiment result because exact independent listings had no ratings.

What was added?

Documented origin, estate, producer, landrace grouping, process, fermentation, drying, elevation, harvest month, retail format, price and tasting profile.

What wasn't added?

No narrower cultivar, harvest year, independent sentiment score, or house tasting score.

Why it matters

The profile now explains both the genetic origin claim and the experimentally processed Colombian lot without presenting roaster language as our tasting.

What you might taste

Roaster-listed strawberry, dark chocolate, acai and umeshu.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://onyxcoffeelab.com/products/colombia-el-vergel-yirgacheffe-natural
  • · https://beanhoard.com/roaster/onyx-coffee-lab/colombia-el-vergel-yirgacheffe-natural
  • · https://www.beanswithbeanie.com/coffee/colombia-el-vergel-yirgacheffe-natural-onyx-coffee-lab
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 2026-10-25) 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: El Vergel →Meet the farmer: Bayter brothers →
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