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Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2025 Maritza Dota, Late Harvest - Ecuador; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2025 Maritza Dota, Late Harvest - Ecuador; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2025 Maritza Dota, Late Harvest - Ecuador; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2025 Maritza Dota, Late Harvest - Ecuador; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇪🇨Ecuador · Saraguro

2025 Maritza Dota, Late Harvest - Ecuador

Roasted by Sey CoffeeRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsEcuadorSaraguroTypica MejoradoWashedArabicaSingle originMaritza DotaSey CoffeeIndependent
🇪🇨EcuadorWashedTypica Mejorado
Brand
SEY Coffee
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇪🇨Ecuador
Region
Saraguro
Town
—
Farm / Station
—
Farmer / Producer
Maritza Dota
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Typica Mejorado
Process
Roast
—
Tasting notes
mandarin, floral botanicals, ripe stone fruit
Fermentation
Dry-fermented for 24 hours
Drying
Dried on raised beds for 15 days
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • farm nameSEY describes a 0.5-hectare farm but does not publish a formal farm name for this exact release.
  • gradeThe exact SEY release does not publish a formal green-coffee grade.
  • roast levelSEY does not publish a conventional roast-level label for this exact release; reseller-level generalizations were not promoted to the coffee record.
  • public sentimentNo qualifying independent exact-release tasting review or consumer rating was found.
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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
    2025 Maritza Dota, Late Harvest - Ecuador
  2. 02
    The brand
    SEY Coffee
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Sey Coffee
  4. 04
    The variety
    Typica Mejorado
  5. 05
    The farm
    Not disclosed
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Maritza Dota
  7. 07
    The region
    Saraguro
  8. 08
    The country
    🇪🇨Ecuador
From the producer

Maritza Dota is a producer in Ecuador whose work reflects a long-term commitment to building sustainable supply chains and unlocking the country's exceptional coffee potential.

From the roaster

Sey Coffee is a Brooklyn-based micro-roastery dedicated to sourcing and roasting complex, dynamic coffees while fostering long-term relationships throughout the supply chain.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

A second Maritza Dota release from a 0.5-hectare Saraguro farm, documenting a complete washed protocol and SEY’s expanding southern Ecuador sourcing project.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
SELECTIVE HARVEST AND FLOATING

Cherries were hand-picked at peak ripeness and floated to remove defects.

02
DEPULPING

Selected cherries were depulped before fermentation.

03
DRY FERMENTATION

The depulped coffee dry-fermented for 24 hours.

04
WASHING AND DRYING

The coffee was washed and dried on raised beds for 15 days.

What was added?

Nothing was disclosed as added.

What wasn't added?

No fruit, spices, flavorings, commercial cultures, or post-roast additives were disclosed.

Why it matters

This is a traditionally washed Mejorado with a fully documented 24-hour dry-fermentation and 15-day raised-bed drying protocol.

What you might taste

SEY reports mandarin, floral botanicals, and ripe stone fruit.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.seycoffee.com/products/2025-maritza-dota-late-harvest-ecuador
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 2026-11-03) 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

Method required the exact Maritza Dota March 2025 late-harvest release. Seller/catalog facts were used only for product metadata. Cherrybook’s evidence index and general SEY Reddit sentiment were excluded from exact-coffee sentiment.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farmer: Maritza Dota →
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