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🇨🇷Costa Rica · Tarrazú

Archive: Costa Rica El Yasal

Roasted by Verve Coffee RoastersRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsCosta RicaTarrazúCatuaíHoneyLight roastPeachLemonBrown SugarArabicaSingle originSpecialtyFinca El YasalEmilio “Milo” and Laura GamboaVerve Coffee Roasters
🇨🇷Costa RicaWhite HoneyCatuaíLight roast
Brand
Verve Coffee Roasters
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇨🇷Costa Rica
Region
Tarrazú
Town
Ojo de Agua
Farm / Station
Finca El Yasal
Farmer / Producer
Emilio “Milo” and Laura Gamboa
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Specialty
Variety
Catuaí
Process
Roast
Light
Tasting notes
Peach, Meyer Lemon, Brown Sugar
Fermentation
—
Drying
Raised-bed drying at Montes de Oro micro-mill; exact duration is not published.
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • altitude mThe exact page publishes a 2,050–2,100 m range, so no midpoint is stored as a scalar.
  • harvestNo harvest month or crop year is published for the exact release.
  • fermentationWhite Honey is verified, but no fermentation vessel, duration, or protocol is disclosed.
  • drying durationRaised-bed drying is documented, but the duration and terminal moisture are not published.
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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
    Archive: Costa Rica El Yasal
  2. 02
    The brand
    Verve Coffee Roasters
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Verve Coffee Roasters
  4. 04
    The variety
    Catuaí
  5. 05
    The farm
    Finca El Yasal
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Emilio “Milo” and Laura Gamboa
  7. 07
    The region
    Tarrazú
  8. 08
    The country
    🇨🇷Costa Rica
From the producer

Milo and Laura Gamboa manage coffee from the family's four Tarrazú farms through the Montes de Oro micro-mill, established in 2006.

From the roaster

Verve describes a sweet-tart profile of peach, Meyer lemon, and brown sugar, with white-honey sweetness balanced by citrus clarity.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

A clearly traceable, very-high-elevation Tarrazú farm lot with a named producer team, exact cultivar, exact honey-process level, and documented family micro-mill.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Harvest and delivery

Cherry from Finca El Yasal is delivered to the Gamboa family's Montes de Oro micro-mill.

02
White-honey processing

The skin is removed while a measured amount of mucilage remains on the parchment during drying.

03
Drying

The coffee is dried on raised beds; the exact duration is not published.

What was added?

No added ingredients are disclosed.

What wasn't added?

This is not described as co-fermented, infused, inoculated, or flavored after roasting.

Why it matters

Leaving a controlled amount of mucilage can add sweetness while retaining the clarity expected from this high-elevation Catuaí.

What you might taste

Peach, Meyer lemon, and brown sugar, according to Verve.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.vervecoffee.com/products/el-yasal
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 Yasal →Meet the farmer: Emilio “Milo” and Laura Gamboa →
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