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Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2025 Victor Dota - Ecuador; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2025 Victor Dota - Ecuador; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2025 Victor Dota - Ecuador; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2025 Victor Dota - Ecuador; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇪🇨Ecuador · Saraguro

2025 Victor Dota - Ecuador

Roasted by Sey CoffeeRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsEcuadorSaraguroTypica MejoradoWashedLimeArabicaSingle originFinca El LimónVictor DotaSey CoffeeIndependent
🇪🇨EcuadorWashedTypica Mejorado
Brand
SEY Coffee
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇪🇨Ecuador
Region
Saraguro
Town
—
Farm / Station
Finca El Limón
Farmer / Producer
Victor Dota
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Typica Mejorado
Process
Roast
—
Tasting notes
Key lime, floral botanicals, ripe stone fruit
Fermentation
Dry-fermented for 24 hours after depulping
Drying
Raised beds for 15 days
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • gradeThe exact SEY archive does not publish a formal green-coffee grade or cupping classification.
  • roast levelThe exact SEY page does not state a conventional roast level; none was inferred from roaster style.
  • price usdSEY publishes a $44.04/kg direct green-coffee cost, not a consumer retail bag price.
  • bag size gNeither the exact SEY archive nor the exact Pull & Pour guide publishes a consumer package weight.
  • public sentiment ratingNo qualifying independent exact-release tasting score or consumer review was verified.
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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 Victor Dota - Ecuador
  2. 02
    The brand
    SEY Coffee
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Sey Coffee
  4. 04
    The variety
    Typica Mejorado
  5. 05
    The farm
    Finca El Limón
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Victor Dota
  7. 07
    The region
    Saraguro
  8. 08
    The country
    🇪🇨Ecuador
From the producer

Victor Dota is a first-generation producer at Finca El Limón in Saraguro, Loja. Coffee Quest reports a 4-hectare farm with roughly 0.5 hectare currently cultivated and about 400 Typica Mejorado trees; SEY identifies this July 2024 release as his first exportable harvest.

From the roaster

Sey Coffee is a Brooklyn-based micro-roastery focused on sourcing and roasting dynamic, complex coffees from around the world.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

A first exportable harvest from a first-generation producer, grown from roughly 400 Mejorado plants on a very small planted area.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Verified the exact release

SEY confirms Victor Dota's July 2024 first exportable harvest, separate from his later 2026 first-pass, second-harvest, and end-of-season releases.

02
Reconciled the farm footprint

Coffee Quest identifies Finca El Limón as a 4-hectare farm with about 0.5 hectare cultivated and roughly 400 Mejorado trees; the description continues to refer specifically to the planted coffee area.

03
Protected lot-specific processing

Kept SEY's exact 24-hour dry fermentation and 15-day raised-bed drying. Coffee Quest's broader producer protocol was documented but not substituted for the release-specific record.

04
Checked outside evidence

Pull & Pour provides an exact V60 recipe but no evaluative review or score. No public sentiment rating was created.

What was added?

Refreshed exact-release provenance, clarified Finca El Limón's total versus cultivated area, and recorded source exclusions.

What wasn't added?

No consumer price, package weight, conventional roast level, formal grade, owner score, component ratings, verdict, or public sentiment rating.

Why it matters

The profile now distinguishes the producer's broader farm context from the exact July 2024 lot and from later Victor Dota releases.

What you might taste

SEY reports Key lime, floral botanicals, and ripe stone fruit.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.seycoffee.com/products/2025-victor-dota-ecuador
  • · https://pullandpourcoffee.com/brew-guide/victor-dota-mejorado-ecuador-sey-coffee/
  • · https://www.thecoffeequest.com/victor-dota-from-loja-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

Pull & Pour's January 20, 2025 exact-release page is a V60 brew guide without evaluative tasting observations or a score, so it supports brew guidance but not sentiment. Later Victor Dota releases and producer-level profiles were excluded from exact-release sentiment.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Finca El Limón →Meet the farmer: Victor Dota →
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