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Archive: Honduras Manuel Vallecillo — supplied coffee image 1
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Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Archive: Honduras Manuel Vallecillo; not a documentary photograph

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🇭🇳Honduras · Santa Bárbara

Archive: Honduras Manuel Vallecillo

Roasted by Verve Coffee RoastersRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsHondurasSanta BárbaraCatuaíWashedLight roastPeachArabicaSingle originFinca Los PrimosManuel VallecilloVerve Coffee RoastersIndependent
🇭🇳HondurasWashedCatuaíLight roast
Brand
Verve Coffee Roasters
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇭🇳Honduras
Region
Santa Bárbara
Town
El Ocotillo
Farm / Station
Finca Los Primos
Farmer / Producer
Manuel Vallecillo
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Catuaí
Process
Roast
Light
Tasting notes
Peach, Cranberry, White Tea
Fermentation
—
Drying
—
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • altitude mVerve publishes a 1,710–1,860 meter range; no midpoint was invented.
  • harvest dateThe exact Verve archive does not publish a harvest or crop date for this release.
  • fermentation durationVerve confirms washed processing but does not publish the exact release’s fermentation duration; importer timing describes a broader farm protocol.
  • drying methodA current importer describes parabolic-solar drying at Finca Los Primos, but Verve does not confirm it for this exact archived lot.
  • drying durationThe 24-day importer figure is farm-level context, not verified as this exact release’s drying duration.
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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: Honduras Manuel Vallecillo
  2. 02
    The brand
    Verve Coffee Roasters
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Verve Coffee Roasters
  4. 04
    The variety
    Catuaí
  5. 05
    The farm
    Finca Los Primos
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Manuel Vallecillo
  7. 07
    The region
    Santa Bárbara
  8. 08
    The country
    🇭🇳Honduras
From the producer

Manuel Vallecillo is a third-generation producer. After leaving coffee during a period of low prices, he bought a ten-hectare parcel in El Ocotillo in 2010 and planted seven hectares with his cousins, inspiring the farm name Finca Los Primos.

From the roaster

Verve describes the cup as peach-forward, tart with cranberry, densely layered, clean, and expressive of high-quality Santa Bárbara coffee.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

The exact Verve release is Catuaí, not Pacas. It comes from the same Manuel Vallecillo farm widely documented as Finca Los Primos, although Verve's archive page uses the singular form El Primo.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Washed process

Verve identifies this exact Catuaí release as washed.

02
Farm processing context

A current importer profile for Finca Los Primos describes depulping, 26 to 36 hours of dry fermentation, four washes, and about 24 days in a parabolic solar dryer.

What was added?

No fruit, flavoring, or inoculated culture is disclosed.

What wasn't added?

The importer protocol is farm context and is not confirmed as the exact schedule used for this Verve release.

Why it matters

Separating exact-release facts from farm-wide practice avoids assigning another Los Primos lot's fermentation schedule to this Catuaí.

What you might taste

Peach, cranberry, white tea, layered fruit, and a clean finish.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.vervecoffee.com/products/manuel-vallecillo
  • · https://www.thecoffeequest.com/finca-los-primos-honduras/
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 Los Primos →Meet the farmer: Manuel Vallecillo →
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