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2026 Victor Dota - Ecuador — supplied coffee image 1
Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2026 Victor Dota - Ecuador; not a documentary photograph

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Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2026 Victor Dota - Ecuador; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2026 Victor Dota - Ecuador; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇪🇨Ecuador · Loja

2026 Victor Dota - Ecuador

Roasted by Sey CoffeeRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsEcuadorLojaTypica MejoradoWashedLimeArabicaSingle originFinca El LimónVictor DotaSey CoffeeIndependent
🇪🇨EcuadorWashedTypica Mejorado
Brand
SEY Coffee
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇪🇨Ecuador
Region
Loja
Town
Saraguro
Farm / Station
Finca El Limón
Farmer / Producer
Victor Dota
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Typica Mejorado
Process
Roast
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Tasting notes
Key lime, floral botanicals, ripe stone fruit
Fermentation
24-hour dry fermentation reported for the exact 2026 listing
Drying
Raised beds for 15 days reported for the exact 2026 listing
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • harvest dateThe exact 2026 SEY page identifies the seasonal release but does not publish a harvest month or day.
  • retail configurationExact catalogs agree on the $32.50 price but conflict on whether the listed bag contained 250 g or 318 g, so bag size is left blank.
  • roast levelThe exact SEY page does not publish a categorical roast level.
  • elevation discrepancyThe farm profile reports 1,900 m while exact-release catalogs report 1,950 m; the release-level value is retained and both are disclosed.
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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
    2026 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
    Loja
  8. 08
    The country
    🇪🇨Ecuador
From the producer

Victor Dota is a first-generation producer in Saraguro, Loja. Finca El Limón spans four hectares; about 0.5 hectare was planted with roughly 400 Typica Mejorado trees when documented.

From the roaster

SEY Coffee is a Brooklyn roaster focused on light-roast coffees and long-term, transparent sourcing relationships.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

This is a first exportable seasonal harvest from a very small, young farm and one of SEY’s highlighted examples of Ecuadorian Mejorado.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Selective harvest and float sorting

Ripe cherries were hand-picked and floated to remove defects.

02
Dry fermentation

The exact 2026 catalog reports 24 hours of dry fermentation.

03
Washing

The coffee was washed after fermentation.

04
Raised-bed drying

The exact 2026 catalog reports 15 days of drying on raised beds.

What was added?

No fruit, flavorings, or inoculated culture are disclosed.

What wasn't added?

No non-coffee flavoring or additive is documented.

Why it matters

Using the exact 2026 catalog keeps this release distinct from earlier farm-level and prior-season processing descriptions.

What you might taste

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

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.seycoffee.com/products/2026-victor-dota-ecuador
  • · https://thepress.coffee/coffees/sey-coffee-2026-victor-dota-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: Finca El Limón →Meet the farmer: Victor Dota →
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