From the rainforest of Utuado to your morning ritual, Hacienda Tierra Viva’s standout cup brings Puerto Rican craft and care into focus.

A remarkable coffee can make a familiar morning feel newly vivid. Fifth Heaven Medium Roast Whole Beans from Hacienda Tierra Viva has earned 93 points from Coffee Review, recognition that puts a coffee from Utuado, Puerto Rico, in the international specialty coffee conversation. For Puerto Rico Vital Bean, the score celebrates more than a number: it draws attention to the people, place, and thoughtful growing behind a distinctive island cup.

A rainforest farm in every cup

Hacienda Tierra Viva sits in Puerto Rico’s central mountains, where coffee grows among the living landscape of the rainforest. Laura Rivera and Blake Horwitz produce Fifth Heaven as a single-origin Arabica coffee, with varieties that include Limaní, Frontón, Bourbon, and Typica. Their family grows, processes, and packages the coffee at the farm, connecting the finished cup to its source.

The cherries are dried whole in the traditional natural process. As they slowly dry in the sun, the coffee develops the deep aroma and rounded sweetness that make this method so expressive. The farm describes its approach as small-batch and regenerative, working with the surrounding ecosystem and avoiding harmful pesticides and herbicides. It is a way of farming that reflects Vital Bean’s belief that excellent coffee begins with respect for the land and the people who care for it.

What 93 points tastes like

Coffee Review’s tasting notes describe a lively, polished cup, with baking chocolate and cashew butter alongside red apple, magnolia, and fresh-cut oak. In the finish, chocolate and sweet nut tones linger. These notes offer a map, not a test: take a sip and notice what comes forward for you. The medium roast gives the coffee room to show its sweetness, aroma, and full-bodied character.

For a clear view of those details, try Fifth Heaven as a pour over. Grind just before brewing, use fresh water, and pour steadily. The aroma opens as the coffee blooms, while a slower brew can bring its gentle fruit and chocolate qualities into balance. However you prepare it, give the first sip a moment. A good cup rewards attention.

A recognition rooted in Puerto Rico

An international score can help introduce a coffee to new drinkers, but the story begins much closer to home: in Utuado, with a family tending its farm and preserving a tradition of Puerto Rican coffee. Each bag offers a chance to meet that work through flavor and to support the island’s agricultural community by choosing coffee sourced from its producers.

At Puerto Rico Vital Bean, we bring together specialty coffees shaped by the island’s farms, heritage, and people. Fifth Heaven is a compelling expression of that purpose—carefully grown, naturally processed, and recognized for the quality in the cup. Make space for it in your next coffee ritual, and discover what a little piece of Puerto Rico’s rainforest can bring to the morning.

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