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Costa Rica Central Valley - Light Roast Caturra & Catuai, Whole Beans
Costa Rica Central Valley - Light Roast Caturra & Catuai, Whole Beans
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Origin: Central Valley, Costa Rica
Cultivar: Caturra & Catuai
Process: Perla Negra
Roast Level: Light
Taste profile: Lots of dried cranberry, potpourri-like rose, and cooked cranberry flavors with intense boozy acidity and mellow sweetness.
A naturally occurring dwarf mutation of Bourbon, the Catuai variety was discovered in Minas Gerais, Brazil (1915–1918) and later selected for cultivation (1937).
This coffee went through the Perla Negra or “Black Pearl” process, developed by Oscar and Francisca Chacón at Las Lajas. This is a Natural process where the coffee dries directly in the sun for 10 days while being raked and moved throughout the day. It is then transferred to clean sacks where it is tied off and “rested” for 3 days before being transferred to raised beds and finished as a Natural.
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This description was taken from the website of our suppliers, Cafe Imports.
Oscar and Francisca Chacón are third-generation coffee producers, but the coffee is more than just in their family heritage: It's in their hearts and souls as well. The couple is committed to quality and innovation, and are among the very first farmers in Costa Rica to produce Honey and Natural process specialty coffee.
In 2005, after years of delivering their cherry to a cooperative for the going market price, they decided to join the brand-new "micromill revolution" and buy their own depulper to have more control over the quality and the price they received for their lots. "At first, we didn't know what we were doing," Oscar explains. "We were just experimenting." That experimentation led to some of the most exciting new flavor profiles we have ever tasted: Now, the Chacons produce a wide range of Honey process coffees, modulating the drying time in order to create different effects in the cup.
Necessity bred more innovation for the family when an earthquake in 2008 wiped out electricity and water to their area during the harvest. Unable to run the depulpers or to wash the mucilage off to produce Washed lots, Francisca took inspiration from her knowledge of African coffee production and quickly built raised beds on the property. Their Natural lots caught the attention of Cafe Imports' founder Andrew Miller, and the rest is both history and our-story.
Las Lajas owns and the following farms for cultivating their coffees: Alajuela, Calle Liles, Calle San Juan, Los Angeles, Los Pinitos, Sabana Redonda, Sabanilla, San Luis.