Aquiares Estate - Natural, Costa Rica

Tasting Notes: Brown Sugar, Passion Fruit, Blackcurrant, Rich

Aquiares Estate - Natural, Costa Rica

Sale price$18.00

We're so excited to bring back Aquiares Estate, Costa Rica, this time from a Naturally processed lot. This coffee has big purple notes, reminding us of my favourite childhood drink, Ribena. We've also just released a honey processed Costa Rica from Café Ceres, a sweet and creamy balance to this fruity and rich offering.

Size: 200g
Grind: Wholebean

Discover More About This Coffee:

Process: Natural

Varietal: Esperanza F1 Hybrid

Altitude: 1200 masl

Producer: Diego Robelo

This Esperanza hybrid underwent a natural process, starting with the removal of floater beans to ensure only the highest quality cherries moved forward. The coffee was dried with the pulp intact, beginning with two days on ceramic floors, followed by ten days on raised beds at temperatures ranging from 28°C to 45°C. The process was completed with one day of mechanical drying in a Guardiola.

Origin:

Turrialba, Costa Rica

The name Aquiares means “land between rivers” in the Huetar indigenous language, and Aquiares Estate is commonly referred to as “Aquiares Coffee and Community.” It is the largest farm in Costa Rica and home to 1,800 people. Although the farm was founded in 1890, Alfonso Robelo is the man responsible for its transformation a century later. Alfonso arrived in Costa Rica in the 1980’s seeking refuge from the civil war in Nicaragua, where he was politically active. When politics soured into violence, he fled the country to keep his family and himself safe after receiving several threats against his life. Once in Costa Rica, Alfonso began building the Aquiares community on the enchanting slopes of the Turrialba volcano, a lush area of forests, rivers, fauna, and bright flora.

Produced By:

Diego Robelo

Alfonso challenged the status quo, transforming the relationship between landowner and farm workers. He brought a visionary approach to Aquiares, a farm suffering from low prices and instability. Aquiares had more than 200 employee homes on the farm, but because none owned their home, there was great insecurity in the workforce. Alfonso saw this as an opportunity to strengthen the company by having people feel pride in the coffee they produce. He evolved the farm into a small town where workers purchased their own homes. Today, Aquiares remains a model of sustainable agriculture.

Nowadays Alfonso’s son, Diego, manages the farm. Under his lead, the farm has taken a fresh approach to specialty coffee and exploring the farm’s potential. Through excellent agricultural management, embracing new varieties, and experimenting with processing, Aquiares has become a trailblazer among specialty coffee producers in Costa Rica and all of Central America.

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