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2026 Daniel Caro Lopez; El Tambo, End Of Season - Colombia — supplied coffee image 1
Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2026 Daniel Caro Lopez; El Tambo, End Of Season - Colombia; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2026 Daniel Caro Lopez; El Tambo, End Of Season - Colombia; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2026 Daniel Caro Lopez; El Tambo, End Of Season - Colombia; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇨🇴Colombia · Antioquia

2026 Daniel Caro Lopez; El Tambo, End Of Season - Colombia

TRADITIONAL PROCESS
🇨🇴ColombiaWashedChiroso
Roaster website
Country
🇨🇴Colombia
Region
Antioquia
Town
Güíntar
Farm / Station
Farmer / Producer
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Specialty
Variety
Process
Roast
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Tasting notes
Lychee, Oolong, Mango
Fermentation
Depulped on the day of harvest, then fermented underwater for six days.
Drying
Dried on raised beds to approximately 10% moisture.
Product page
Date reviewed
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Why some details are blank
  • roast levelThe exact product page does not publish a conventional roast-level label.
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
    2026 Daniel Caro Lopez; El Tambo, End Of Season - Colombia
  2. 02
    The brand
  3. 03
    The roaster
  4. 04
    The variety
  5. 05
    The farm
  6. 06
  7. 07
    The region
  8. 08
From the producer

Daniel Caro Lopez is a second-generation producer at El Tambo in Güíntar, Anzá. SEY describes the 33-hectare farm as having five hectares in coffee, primarily Chiroso with a small Gesha garden.

From the roaster

Based in Brooklyn, New York, Sey Coffee is a contemporary micro-roastery known for its focus on light-roast, fruit-forward coffees and transparent supply chain relationships.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

A clearly documented high-elevation Chiroso with an unusually long six-day underwater fermentation, presented by SEY as the final El Tambo harvest in its program.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Selection

Hand-picked at peak ripeness and floated.

02
Depulping

Depulped on the day of harvest.

03
Fermentation

Fermented underwater for six days.

04
Drying

Dried on raised beds to approximately 10% moisture.

What was added?

Nothing disclosed.

What wasn't added?

No fruit, spices or flavorings are disclosed.

Why it matters

The six-day underwater fermentation is a specific, verified feature of this washed lot.

What you might taste

SEY lists lychee, oolong and mango.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.seycoffee.com/products/2026-daniel-caro-lopez-el-tambo-end-of-season-colombia
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.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Same coffee, different roaster?

Other roasters, same producer.

These coffees come from the same producer or farm, offered by other roasters. We never automatically declare two offerings the exact same coffee — a match requires lot, harvest and traceability details. Even a true same-lot pair can taste different: roast approach, freshness, rest and brewing all reshape the cup.

Sey Coffee · Colombia
Same producer, farm, variety & process — lot and harvest not yet verified.
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