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🇨🇷Costa Rica · Tarrazú

Archive: Costa Rica El Vendaval

Roasted by Verve Coffee RoastersRoaster's website

TRADITIONAL PROCESS

TagsCosta Rica Tarrazú Catuaí Honey Light roast Raspberry Dark Chocolate Arabica Single origin El Vendaval Calderón Family Verve Coffee Roasters Independent

🇨🇷Costa RicaWhite HoneyCatuaíLight roast

Brand

Verve Coffee Roasters

Roaster website

Visit website

Country

🇨🇷Costa Rica

Region

Tarrazú

Town

Santa María de Dota

Farm / Station

El Vendaval

Farmer / Producer

Calderón Family

Species

Arabica

Type

Single origin

Grade

Not specified

Variety

Catuaí

Process

Roast

Light

Tasting notes

Raspberry, Dark Chocolate, Toasted Coconut

Fermentation

—

Drying

—

Product page

Roaster's site

Date reviewed

—

Why some details are blank

altitude mVerve publishes only a 1,900–2,100 meter range; no midpoint was invented.
harvest dateThe exact archive does not publish a harvest date for this release.
fermentation durationVerve confirms White Honey processing but does not publish a fermentation duration.
drying methodVerve confirms producer control of drying but does not publish the drying surface or method for this release.
drying durationThe exact archive does not publish a drying duration.

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The transparency chain

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The name on the bag
Archive: Costa Rica El Vendaval
Named on the bag
02
The brand
Verve Coffee Roasters
Documented
03
The roaster
Verve Coffee Roasters
Documented
04
The variety
Catuaí
Documented
05
The farm
El Vendaval
Documented
06
The farmer
Calderón Family
Documented
07
The region
Tarrazú
Documented
08
The country
🇨🇷Costa Rica
Documented

From the producer

The Calderón family manages a multigenerational network of farms in Santa María de Dota. During Costa Rica's micro-mill movement, the family moved to independent processing for greater control over fermentation, drying, and lot separation.

From the roaster

Verve presents this White Honey lot as a smooth, consistent coffee combining gentle raspberry fruit with dark chocolate and toasted coconut depth.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

The lot links high-elevation Red Catuaí with the Calderón family's early participation in Costa Rica's independent micro-mill movement.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

White Honey processing

The coffee was processed as White Honey at the family's independent micro-mill.

Producer control

The Calderón family's mill provides direct control over fermentation and drying.

Disclosure limit

The exact release does not publish mucilage percentage, fermentation duration, drying surface, or drying time.

What was added?

No inoculated culture, fruit, or flavoring is disclosed.

What wasn't added?

No co-fermentation ingredient or post-roast flavoring is disclosed.

Why it matters

White Honey processing is used here to preserve sweetness while retaining clarity and smooth texture.

What you might taste

Raspberry, dark chocolate, toasted coconut, and a smooth texture.

Sources for these process claims

· https://www.vervecoffee.com/products/el-vendaval

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.

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Meet the farm: El Vendaval →Meet the farmer: Calderón Family →

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WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLYDO TO THIS COFFEE?

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