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Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Archive: Costa Rica Sumava Lactico; not a documentary photograph

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Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Archive: Costa Rica Sumava Lactico; not a documentary photograph

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🇨🇷Costa Rica · West Valley

Archive: Costa Rica Sumava Lactico

Roasted by Verve Coffee RoastersRoaster's website
EXPERIMENTAL PROCESS
TagsCosta RicaWest ValleyVilla SarchiNaturalLight roastPeachVanillaWine-likeOrangeArabicaSingle originSpecialtySumava de LourdesFrancisco Mena
🇨🇷Costa RicaNaturalVilla SarchiLight roast
Brand
Verve Coffee Roasters
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇨🇷Costa Rica
Region
West Valley
Town
Lourdes de Naranjo
Farm / Station
Sumava de Lourdes
Farmer / Producer
Francisco Mena
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Specialty
Variety
Villa Sarchi
Process
Roast
Light
Tasting notes
Peach, Vanilla, Orange Wine
Fermentation
Anaerobic natural lactic: whole cherries are sealed in tanks for native-microbe fermentation; exact duration is not published.
Drying
Raised beds after the fermented cherries are depulped and washed, according to Verve’s release narrative.
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
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Why some details are blank
  • Harvest dateVerve's archive does not publish a harvest date or crop year for this release.
  • Fermentation durationThe sealed-tank lactic fermentation is described, but its duration and temperature are not published.
  • Process terminologyThe marketed Natural label conflicts with the same page's depulping and washing narrative; both claims are shown rather than silently choosing one.
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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 Sumava Lactico
  2. 02
    The brand
    Verve Coffee Roasters
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Verve Coffee Roasters
  4. 04
    The variety
    Villa Sarchi
  5. 05
    The farm
    Sumava de Lourdes
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Francisco Mena
  7. 07
    The region
    West Valley
  8. 08
    The country
    🇨🇷Costa Rica
From the producer

Francisco Mena is the owner of the Sumava-Lourdes farm and a founding partner of Exclusive Coffees S.A., a prominent organization in the Costa Rican coffee industry.

From the roaster

Verve Coffee Roasters is a specialty coffee company that maintains direct trade relationships with producers, focusing on high-quality, seasonal offerings from around the world.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

A distinct Villa Sarchi release using Mena’s proprietary sealed-tank lactic fermentation and a marketed Anaerobic Natural Lactic identity.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Identity

Connected Francisco Mena and Sumava de Lourdes.

02
Origin

Corrected the farm-based origin to West Valley / Lourdes de Naranjo.

03
Process

Preserved the marketed Anaerobic Natural Lactic identity while documenting the page’s post-fermentation depulping, washing, and raised-bed drying statement.

04
Release data

Added price, elevation range context, taste, and brew recipes.

What was added?

Verified farm, producer, region, variety, marketed process, fermentation, drying, price, taste, and brewing data.

What wasn't added?

No single altitude point, harvest date, fermentation duration, or numerical public rating was published.

Why it matters

This keeps the release distinct from the separate Lactico Honey coffee and makes source contradictions transparent.

What you might taste

Peach and vanilla with floral lift and an orange-wine-like body.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.vervecoffee.com/products/sumava-lactico
  • · https://sprudge.com/coffee-recommendations-from-costa-rica-guatemala-honduras-panama-and-more-219736.html
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: Sumava de Lourdes →Meet the farmer: Francisco Mena →
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