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🇪🇨Ecuador · Saraguro

2026 Vicente Regalado; La Capilla - Ecuador

Roasted by Sey CoffeeRoaster's website

TRADITIONAL PROCESS

TagsEcuador Saraguro Typica Mejorado Washed Lemon Orange Arabica Single origin La Capilla Vicente Regalado Sey Coffee Independent

🇪🇨EcuadorWashedTypica Mejorado

Brand

SEY Coffee

Roaster website

Visit website

Country

🇪🇨Ecuador

Region

Saraguro

Town

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Farm / Station

La Capilla

Farmer / Producer

Vicente Regalado

Species

Arabica

Type

Single origin

Grade

Not specified

Variety

Typica Mejorado

Process

Roast

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Tasting notes

preserved lemon, orange blossom, fresh herbs

Fermentation

Held in cherry for 24 hours, then depulped and dry-fermented for 36 hours.

Drying

Raised beds for 20 days until moisture reached approximately 10%.

Product page

Roaster's site

Date reviewed

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Why some details are blank

roast levelSEY does not publish a formal roast-level label for this release.
roast dateRetailers list individual April 2026 roast dates, but no bag-specific roast date applies universally to the release.
public sentimentNo qualifying independent exact-coffee rating or tasting review 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.

01
The name on the bag
2026 Vicente Regalado; La Capilla - Ecuador
Named on the bag
02
The brand
SEY Coffee
Documented
03
The roaster
Sey Coffee
Documented
04
The variety
Typica Mejorado
Documented
05
The farm
La Capilla
Documented
06
The farmer
Vicente Regalado
Documented
07
The region
Saraguro
Documented
08
The country
🇪🇨Ecuador
Documented

From the producer

Vicente Regalado is a small-lot producer at La Capilla in Saraguro, Loja Province. This was SEY’s first year buying from him through its multi-year Ecuador project.

From the roaster

Sey Coffee is a Brooklyn-based micro-roastery focused on sourcing high-quality, complex coffees through transparent supply chain relationships and precise roasting techniques.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

A very small, fully traceable Mejorado lot from SEY’s Loja project, with a documented 24-hour cherry hold, 36-hour dry fermentation, and 20-day raised-bed drying.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

Selective harvest and cherry hold

Peak-ripe cherries were hand-picked and held whole for 24 hours.

Flotation and depulping

The cherries were floated to remove defects, then depulped.

Dry fermentation

Depulped coffee dry-fermented for 36 hours.

Raised-bed drying

The lot dried on raised beds for 20 days until moisture reached about 10%.

What was added?

A 24-hour whole-cherry hold and 36-hour dry fermentation are explicitly disclosed.

What wasn't added?

SEY does not identify a fermentation culture or additional substrate; no broader absence claim is inferred.

Why it matters

The documented cherry hold and dry fermentation precede careful raised-bed drying, preserving a clean profile while allowing fruit and floral character to develop.

What you might taste

SEY lists preserved lemon, orange blossom, and fresh herbs.

Sources for these process claims

· https://www.seycoffee.com/products/2026-vicente-regalado-la-capilla-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 2026-10-25) 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: La Capilla →Meet the farmer: Vicente Regalado →

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WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLYDO TO THIS COFFEE?

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