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A Matter of Concrete

La Reserva Anaerobic Natural Sidra | Ecuador

£18.00

  • Silky, Vanilla, Forest Fruits
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Coffee Details

Country of Origin
Ecuador
Varietal
Sidra
Process
Natural
Roast Level
Light
Farm
La Reserva
Altitude
1900 masl

What to expect

In the cup you can find

Silky, Vanilla, Forest Fruits

Overall profile

Clean and bright. Forest fruits lead, with vanilla sweetness and a beautiful, silky mouthfeel.

Sensory profile

Acidity
2/5
Body
3/5
Sweetness
3/5
Funk
1/3
Adventurous
3/5

About A Matter of Concrete

Rotterdam-based A Matter of Concrete combines sensory judgement with hard data to make deliberate decisions about sourcing and roasting. Working from the Van Nelle Factory, the team pairs exceptional coffee with a practical focus on innovation, traceability and lower-impact production.

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Roaster notes

Ecuador — Angel Sanchez Sidra (Natural)

Tastes Like — 🍇 Forest Fruits • 🍦 Vanilla • ✨ Silky

DETAILS

  • Producer: Angel Sanchez
  • Region: Southern Ecuador (Licaceo lot, as listed)
  • Varietal: Sidra
  • Process: Natural
  • Altitude: ~1,900 masl
  • Series: Qima Competition & 90+ Series

INTRO
The exotic allure of Ecuadorian Sidra, natural processed: a gorgeous cup the roaster wants to drink every morning. Clean forest fruits and vanilla with a beautiful silky mouthfeel and complexity. In the cup: forest fruits, vanilla, and a silky mouthfeel.

THE PRODUCER
This lot is part of Qima's Competition and 90+ Series, grown at around 1,900 masl in southern Ecuador and made up of Sidra, one of Ecuador's prized varieties. Supported by qualified on-ground teams, Qima's post-harvest natural processing ensures a cup of clean flavours.

THE PROCESS
Freshly harvested cherries are soaked in water to identify high-quality, dense cherries, and the floaters are removed. The cherries are then dried on raised beds, a route that dries the outer skin quickly to avoid fungal growth. In Ecuador, drying typically takes 4–6 weeks, depending on the weather. Once dried, the coffee is packed and stored for at least a month before being transported to Quito for milling and sorting.

The 4–6 week raised-bed drying is the defining step. It's what builds the clean forest fruit and vanilla sweetness behind this cup.

THE CUP
Clean and silky: forest fruits lead, with vanilla sweetness and a beautiful, silky mouthfeel.

Flavour Notes
🍇 Forest Fruits 🍦 Vanilla ✨ Silky

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Country of Origin

Ecuador, South America

In this coffee

Clean and bright. Forest fruits lead, with vanilla sweetness and a beautiful, silky mouthfeel.

  • Silky
  • Vanilla
  • Forest Fruits

This lot’s process Anaerobic

About this origin Ecuador is a smaller specialty origin with farms spread through dramatic Andean landscapes. High-grown lots can be beautifully aromatic, combining floral lift, citrus and stone fruit with elegant sweetness and a precise, transparent cup.

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Coffee Process

Natural

In this coffee

Clean and bright. Forest fruits lead, with vanilla sweetness and a beautiful, silky mouthfeel.

  • Silky
  • Vanilla
  • Forest Fruits

This lot’s process Anaerobic

How it works The whole coffee cherry is dried with the fruit intact, often on raised beds or patios. The dried fruit is removed afterwards.

Typical influence Natural coffees are often described as sweet and full-bodied, with ripe berry or tropical-fruit flavours and sometimes a gentle wine-like note.

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Coffee Variety

In this coffee

Clean and bright. Forest fruits lead, with vanilla sweetness and a beautiful, silky mouthfeel.

  • Silky
  • Vanilla
  • Forest Fruits

This lot’s process Anaerobic

About this variety

Sidra is often chosen for a highly aromatic, floral and sweet cup. Citrus, stone fruit and tropical fruit are common reference points in expressive lots.

Why this one is different
  • Ecuador
  • 1900 masl
  • Natural

The reviewed Ecuadorian Sidras are fragrant, clean and fruit-forward, with orange blossom or rosehip, strawberry, peach, kiwi and tropical fruit appearing across the range. Most are washed, which keeps the cup bright and precise. Producer-specific drying or fermentation can add extra sweetness and texture without replacing that floral lift.

Natural processing often brings a rounder, fruit-led expression, which can make the same variety feel quite different from a washed lot.

A little background

Sidra has become closely associated with Ecuadorian specialty coffee, but it is grown across distinct regions including Loja, Chimborazo, Intag and Saraguro. The reviewed lots share clarity and perfume, while their individual farms and processes create noticeably different fruit profiles.

Identification note Sidra and Sydra are both used in Ecuador. Recent genetic work confirms Sidra material exists but also found misidentified plants in the specialty seed supply, so producer traceability remains more reliable than the name alone.

Classification Reported cultivar

Technical lineage Recent genetic evidence places confirmed Sidra within the Core Ethiopia group. Older Bourbon and Typica family explanations should therefore be treated cautiously.

Variety is a guide, not a flavour guarantee. Lot notes are more specific.

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