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Archive: Costa Rica Montes de Oro — supplied coffee image 1
Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Archive: Costa Rica Montes de Oro; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Archive: Costa Rica Montes de Oro; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Archive: Costa Rica Montes de Oro; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇨🇷Costa Rica · Tarrazú

Archive: Costa Rica Montes de Oro

Roasted by Verve Coffee RoastersRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsCosta RicaTarrazúCatuaíHoneyLight roastPlumArabicaSingle originMontes de Oro Micro-millEmilio “Milo” and Laura GamboaVerve Coffee RoastersIndependent
🇨🇷Costa RicaWhite HoneyCatuaíLight roast
Brand
Verve Coffee Roasters
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇨🇷Costa Rica
Region
Tarrazú
Town
—
Farm / Station
Montes de Oro Micro-mill
Farmer / Producer
Emilio “Milo” and Laura Gamboa
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Catuaí
Process
Roast
Light
Tasting notes
Green Apple, Plum, Butterscotch
Fermentation
—
Drying
—
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
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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 Montes de Oro
  2. 02
    The brand
    Verve Coffee Roasters
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Verve Coffee Roasters
  4. 04
    The variety
    Catuaí
  5. 05
    The farm
    Montes de Oro Micro-mill
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Emilio “Milo” and Laura Gamboa
  7. 07
    The region
    Tarrazú
  8. 08
    The country
    🇨🇷Costa Rica
From the producer

The Gamboas manage the Montes de Oro operation, four family farms, and the family micro-mill.

From the roaster

Verve Coffee Roasters is a Santa Cruz-based roaster recognized for its commitment to direct trade and high-quality craft coffee production.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

A longstanding Gamboa-family and Verve relationship expressed through Catuaí, White Honey processing, and family-controlled micro-milling.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Identity

Retained the verified Montes de Oro micro-mill and Emilio-and-Laura producer connections.

02
Origin

Retained Tarrazú and the published elevation range without inventing a midpoint or a specific component farm.

03
Lot data

Retained Catuaí, White Honey, price, taste, and published brew recipes.

04
Editorial and sentiment

Added a four-part overview and revalidated the exact independent 5/5 source with its one-source method.

What was added?

Structured editorial context, a corrected micro-mill/four-farm description, and a refreshed exact-source sentiment audit.

What wasn't added?

No component farm, altitude midpoint, fermentation duration, drying schedule, or additional rating was inferred.

Why it matters

The page now describes Montes de Oro as the documented family micro-mill operation without conflating this release with the separately named El Yasal lot.

What you might taste

Tart green apple, plum, butterscotch sweetness, and a clean finish.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.vervecoffee.com/products/montes-de-oro
  • · https://www.clintmcmahon.com/blog/verve-montes-de-oro
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 2026-10-25. This is research, not our original tasting review.

What the sources say

1 verified independent exact-product source remain after the integrity sweep.

What people love

Bright fruit, butterscotch sweetness, clean finish, and outstanding pour-over performance.

What people don't

The reviewer’s espresso ran thin at the tested grind, though the flavor remained strong.

Flavors people keep mentioning
bright fruitbutterscotch sweetnessclean finish
Outside ratings & rankings

Scores remain on their original scales. An outside review, competition score or historical release is not our tasting and cannot safely be merged into one five-star rating.Our method

The sources
  • Blog
    Clint McMahon Coffee Journal
    Exact-release independent home-brew journal. The reviewer awarded five stars, praised the bright fruit, butterscotch sweetness, clean finish, and outstanding pour-over result, while noting thin espresso at the tested grind.
    Source
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