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🇨🇷Costa Rica · Tarrazú

Archive: Costa Rica Granitos de Ortiz

Roasted by Verve Coffee RoastersRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsCosta RicaTarrazúCatuaíHoneyLight roastArabicaSingle originOrtiz 1800Calderón FamilyVerve Coffee RoastersIndependent
🇨🇷Costa RicaWhite HoneyCatuaíLight roast
Brand
Verve Coffee Roasters
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇨🇷Costa Rica
Region
Tarrazú
Town
Santa María de Dota
Farm / Station
Ortiz 1800
Farmer / Producer
Calderón Family
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Catuaí
Process
Roast
Light
Tasting notes
Green Apple, Nectarine, Simple Syrup
Fermentation
—
Drying
—
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • harvest dateVerve’s exact archive does not disclose a harvest month or year.
  • process-label contradictionThe release narrative and packaging repeatedly say White Honey, while the sidebar says Washed. White Honey is retained as the stronger release-specific evidence.
  • fermentation detailsThe exact page does not disclose fermentation duration, tank conditions, or microbial inputs.
  • drying surface and durationMucilage retention during drying is documented, but the drying surface and duration are not published.
  • additional independent sentimentOnly one qualifying independent review was found for the current release; 40/100 is therefore a limited single-source signal, not consensus.
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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 Granitos de Ortiz
  2. 02
    The brand
    Verve Coffee Roasters
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Verve Coffee Roasters
  4. 04
    The variety
    Catuaí
  5. 05
    The farm
    Ortiz 1800
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Calderón Family
  7. 07
    The region
    Tarrazú
  8. 08
    The country
    🇨🇷Costa Rica
From the producer

Omar Calderón manages the family’s seven farms; his sisters Yoanna, Diana, and Yoxise run Los Angeles micro-mill.

From the roaster

Verve Coffee Roasters highlights this seasonal, direct-trade offering for its crisp sweetness and bright fruit-forward profile.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

A polished high-elevation Tarrazú lot combining Red Catuaí, family micro-mill control, and White Honey processing.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Built the missing editorial profile

Added coffee, family, farm, micro-mill, process-conflict, brewing, and sentiment sections.

02
Preserved the stronger process evidence

Retained the existing Honey-process relationship because the narrative and packaging repeatedly say White Honey, while documenting the sidebar’s Washed label.

03
Kept traceability connections

Preserved the existing Ortiz 1800, Calderón Family, Red Catuaí, and Tarrazú relationships; no new entity was created.

04
Added a transparent current-release signal

Normalized one independent 2/5 review to 40/100 and stored its method, date, source count, and URL separately from original tasting scores.

What was added?

Four editorial sections, explicit unknowns, a documented process contradiction, and a one-source current-release public-sentiment rating.

What wasn't added?

No harvest date, fermentation protocol, drying schedule, additional rating, or original tasting score was inferred.

Why it matters

The page now makes both the White Honey evidence and the conflicting sidebar visible, while preventing a prior-crop opinion from inflating the current release’s sentiment.

What you might taste

Green apple, nectarine, and simple-syrup sweetness according to Verve; the independent reviewer instead reported persistent dark-roast character and little identifiable flavor.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.vervecoffee.com/products/granitos-de-ortiz
  • · https://clintmcmahon.com/blog/verve-granitos-de-ortiz
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

What the internet is saying
WE FOUND 1 RELEVANT PUBLIC SOURCES

AI-synthesized from publicly available information retrieved 2026-10-11. This is research, not our original tasting review.

What the sources say

One verified independent review of the current release was negative, but one source is too little for broad consensus.

What people love

No clear positive attribute was reported in the qualifying current-release review.

What people don't

The reviewer said the light roast tasted dark across multiple pour-over attempts and that they could not recover the listed flavors.

Flavors people keep mentioning
dark roast charactermuted flavor
Internet sentiment

A qualitative summary of public sources, including context. Not a coffee score.

Negative — limited evidence
The sources
  • Public discussion
    Clint McMahon
    A firsthand review of Verve’s Granitos de Ortiz rated the coffee 2/5. Across multiple pour-over attempts, the reviewer found the light roast persistently dark-tasting and could not recover the listed flavors.
    Source
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