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🇨🇷Costa Rica · Tarrazú

Archive: Costa Rica Macho

Roasted by Verve Coffee RoastersRoaster's website

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TagsCosta Rica Tarrazú Catuaí Light roast Plum Black Tea Dark Chocolate Arabica Single origin Finca Macho Efraín “Macho” Naranja Verve Coffee Roasters Independent

🇨🇷Costa RicaCherry ReposadoCatuaíLight 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

Plum, Black Tea, Dark Chocolate

Fermentation

—

Drying

—

Product page

Roaster's site

Date reviewed

—

Why some details are blank

harvest dateThe exact archive does not publish a harvest date for this release.
cherry rest durationVerve names Cherry Reposado but does not publish the cherry-rest duration.
fermentation durationThe exact page does not disclose a fermentation duration or whether a separate fermentation stage followed the cherry rest.
drying methodThe exact archive does not publish the drying surface or method.
drying durationThe exact archive does not publish a drying duration.

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The transparency chain

FROM THE BAG
BACK TO THE LAND.

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01
The name on the bag
Archive: Costa Rica 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 cultivated coffee for more than four decades. He began at fourteen, took ownership of Finca Macho in 2004, and modernized the farm and Santa Rosa 1900 micro-mill with his son.

From the roaster

Verve describes a deep, balanced coffee with plum, black tea, dark chocolate, preserved sweetness, and a rounded mouthfeel.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

This release connects a named alternative process to a precisely identified producer, farm, micro-mill, cultivar, and 1,900-meter lot.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

Named process

Verve identifies the lot as Cherry Reposado, an alternative process used by the Santa Rosa 1900 operation.

Producer control

The coffee was processed within the Naranja family's farm and micro-mill operation.

Disclosure limit

The exact fermentation, resting, depulping, washing, and drying sequence is not published for this release.

What was added?

No inoculated culture, fruit, alcohol, or flavoring is disclosed.

What wasn't added?

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

Why it matters

The named process is associated with the lot's sweetness, depth, structure, and rounded texture, but its undisclosed steps should not be inferred.

What you might taste

Plum, black tea, dark chocolate, and a rounded mouthfeel.

Sources for these process claims

· https://www.vervecoffee.com/products/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. No qualifying independent exact-release review remains.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

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

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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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