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Archive: Guatemala Santa Clara — supplied coffee image 1
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🇬🇹Guatemala · Antigua

Archive: Guatemala Santa Clara

Roasted by Verve Coffee RoastersRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsGuatemalaAntiguaBourbonWashedLight roastBrown SugarArabicaSingle originSanta ClaraRicardo and Katia ZelayaVerve Coffee RoastersIndependent
🇬🇹GuatemalaWashedBourbonLight roast
Brand
Verve Coffee Roasters
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇬🇹Guatemala
Region
Antigua
Town
Antigua
Farm / Station
Santa Clara
Farmer / Producer
Ricardo and Katia Zelaya
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Bourbon
Process
Roast
Light
Tasting notes
Red Apple, Baking Spices, Brown Sugar
Fermentation
—
Drying
Raised beds at Finca Santa Clara, followed by dry processing at the Bella Vista mill
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • altitude mVerve publishes only a 1,600–1,850 meter range; no midpoint was invented.
  • harvest dateThe exact archive does not publish a harvest date for this release.
  • fermentation durationVerve says the pulped coffee was soaked but does not publish the duration.
  • drying durationVerve confirms raised-bed drying but does not publish its 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: Guatemala Santa Clara
  2. 02
    The brand
    Verve Coffee Roasters
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Verve Coffee Roasters
  4. 04
    The variety
    Bourbon
  5. 05
    The farm
    Santa Clara
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Ricardo and Katia Zelaya
  7. 07
    The region
    Antigua
  8. 08
    The country
    🇬🇹Guatemala
From the producer

Ricardo and Katia Zelaya represent the fourth generation of the Zelaya family at Finca Santa Clara. The estate manages cherry selection, wet processing, drying, and milling within the family's operation.

From the roaster

Verve describes a lively but grounding cup with red apple brightness, gentle baking spices, brown sugar depth, round texture, and velvety sweetness.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

This ninth-season Verve release documents a long-running producer relationship and a fully traceable washed Bourbon lot from one of Antigua's established family estates.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Selection and pulping

Ripe cherries were selected and pulped at the estate.

02
Soaking and washing

The pulped coffee was soaked as part of the washed process; the archive does not state a duration.

03
Raised-bed drying

The washed coffee was dried on raised beds at Finca Santa Clara.

04
Dry milling

The dried coffee was transported to the Zelaya family's Bella Vista mill for dry processing.

What was added?

No added fermentation culture or flavoring is disclosed.

What wasn't added?

No fruit, spices, or post-roast flavoring is disclosed.

Why it matters

Estate-controlled wet processing and raised-bed drying support the lot's clean sweetness and structure.

What you might taste

Red apple, baking spices, brown sugar, and a round, velvety texture.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.vervecoffee.com/products/santa-clara
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: Santa Clara →Meet the farmer: Ricardo and Katia Zelaya →
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