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🇨🇷Costa Rica · Tarrazú

Archive: Costa Rica Finca Macho

Roasted by Verve Coffee RoastersRoaster's website

TRADITIONAL PROCESS

TagsCosta Rica Tarrazú Catuaí Washed Light roast Arabica Single origin Finca Macho Efraín “Macho” Naranja Verve Coffee Roasters Independent

🇨🇷Costa RicaWashedCatuaíLight roast

Brand

Verve Coffee Roasters

Roaster website

Visit website

Country

🇨🇷Costa Rica

Region

Tarrazú

Town

Santa Rosa de León Cortés

Farm / Station

Finca Macho

Farmer / Producer

Efraín “Macho” Naranja

Species

Arabica

Type

Single origin

Grade

Not specified

Variety

Catuaí

Process

Roast

Light

Tasting notes

Tangerine, Pomegranate, Lemonade

Fermentation

—

Drying

—

Product page

Roaster's site

Date reviewed

—

Why some details are blank

fermentationVerve identifies washed processing but does not publish a release-specific fermentation duration.
drying methodThe exact archive page does not publish the drying surface or duration.
harvestNo harvest date is published for this exact release.
public sentimentNo qualifying independently authored exact-release review or rating was found.
gradeVerve does not publish an SCA grade for this exact release.

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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
Archive: Costa Rica Finca Macho
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
Finca Macho
Documented
06
The farmer
Efraín “Macho” Naranja
Documented
07
The region
Tarrazú
Documented
08
The country
🇨🇷Costa Rica
Documented

From the producer

Efraín “Macho” Naranja has worked in coffee for more than four decades. He took ownership of the farm in 2004 and, with his son, established the Santa Rosa 1900 micro-mill, processing their own coffee by 2010.

From the roaster

Verve archives this as a light-roasted washed Catuaí from Finca Macho, with tangerine, pomegranate, and lemonade notes.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

This exact Finca Macho release pairs high-elevation Catuaí with washed processing and a citrus-forward profile. It is distinct from the separate /products/macho cherry-reposado release with plum, tea, and chocolate notes.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

Verified the exact archive release

Confirmed Finca Macho, Efraín “Macho” Naranja, Santa Rosa de León Cortés, 1,900 meters, Catuaí, washed processing, light roast, price, size, sold-out status, tasting notes, and Verve’s brew recipes.

Kept releases separate

Excluded details from Verve’s different cherry-reposado Macho release so its process and plum–tea–chocolate profile are not attached to this washed release.

Preserved missing-data boundaries

Left fermentation duration, drying method, harvest, independent sentiment, and house score unresolved because Verve does not publish them for this release.

What was added?

Canonical product link, exact farm and producer context, elevation, cultivar, washed process, archive commerce data, brew recipes, and release-specific tasting-note attribution.

What wasn't added?

No fermentation duration, drying method, harvest, independent sentiment score, or original tasting score was inferred.

Why it matters

The profile now explains what was verified while preventing two distinct Finca Macho releases from being blended together.

What you might taste

Verve lists tangerine, pomegranate, and lemonade; these are roaster-provided descriptors, not our tasting results.

Sources for these process claims

· https://www.vervecoffee.com/products/finca-macho

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:

Meet the farm: Finca Macho →Meet the farmer: Efraín “Macho” Naranja →

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Same coffee, different roaster?

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WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLYDO TO THIS COFFEE?

In the database. Not tasted. Not scored.

What the internet is saying about this coffee

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