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Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for Colombia La Riviera Sudan Rume, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Colombia La Riviera Sudan Rume; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Colombia La Riviera Sudan Rume; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Colombia La Riviera Sudan Rume; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇨🇴Colombia · Risaralda

Colombia La Riviera Sudan Rume

Roasted by Onyx Coffee LabRoaster's website
EXPERIMENTAL PROCESS
TagsColombiaRisaraldaSudan RumeAnaerobicPineappleHoney flavorVanillaArabicaSingle originFinca La RivieraJulio Madrid and Julio QuicenoOnyx Coffee LabIndependent
🇨🇴ColombiaAnaerobicSudan Rume
Brand
Onyx Coffee Lab
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇨🇴Colombia
Region
Risaralda
Town
Santa Rosa de Cabal
Farm / Station
Finca La Riviera
Farmer / Producer
Julio Madrid and Julio Quiceno
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Sudan Rume
Process
Roast
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Tasting notes
Lychee, Pineapple, Floral Honey, Vanilla
Fermentation
36 hours of limited-oxygen fermentation in whole fruit before depulping and channel washing.
Drying
Raised-bed and patio dried for approximately 20 days
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • harvest yearThe exact page publishes September but not a harvest year.
  • process relationship granularityThe schema stores one process relation. Anaerobic is linked as the defining treatment; the subsequent depulping, channel washing and raised-bed/patio drying remain fully documented in the profile.
  • original tasting scoreThe coffee has not been reviewed or scored by this site; roaster and catalog indexes were not substituted.
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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 La Riviera Sudan Rume
  2. 02
    The brand
    Onyx Coffee Lab
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Onyx Coffee Lab
  4. 04
    The variety
    Sudan Rume
  5. 05
    The farm
    Finca La Riviera
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Julio Madrid and Julio Quiceno
  7. 07
    The region
    Risaralda
  8. 08
    The country
    🇨🇴Colombia
From the producer

Julio Madrid and Julio Quiceno have been refining their coffee production craft at Finca La Riviera since 2013, emphasizing innovative processing and environmental stewardship.

From the roaster

Onyx lists lychee, pineapple, floral honey and vanilla and describes its proprietary roast profile as Ultra Light, ground Agtron 137.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

A rare Sudan Rume microlot with a fully disclosed 36-hour anaerobic-washed protocol from Finca La Riviera.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
What was done

Added complete editorial sections; changed the single process relationship from Washed to Anaerobic while preserving the washed finish in text; replaced the unsupported Specialty grade; documented why exact-release catalog indexes do not qualify as sentiment.

What was added?

Nothing, as far as the producer has disclosed.

What wasn't added?

No post-roast flavorings of any kind.

Why it matters

What you might taste

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 2026-10-26) 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 La Riviera →Meet the farmer: Julio Madrid and Julio Quiceno →
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