SL28 - Natural - Hacienda Sonora

Origin

• 🇨🇷 Costa Rica· Central Valley

Tasting notes

Character

• Funky
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Tastes Like: Redcurrant, Pink Grapefruit, Black Tea Origin: Hacienda Sonora, Central Valley, Costa Rica VarietyVariety (cultivar)The botanical subtype of the coffee plant — Gesha, Bourbon, SL28 — analogous to grape varieties in wine. A major driver of cup character alongside origin and process.: SL28SL28A Kenyan variety selected in the 1930s by Scott Agricultural Laboratories, prized for intense blackcurrant acidity and deep sweetness. Producer: Alberto & Diego Guardia Elevation: 1300 masl Process: NaturalNatural processThe whole cherry is dried with the fruit still on the seed. Gives heavier body and big fruit flavors — think berries and wine — sometimes with a fermenty edge. Piramide This coffee, in particular, was dried using a "Piramide" process, where the coffees are covered early in the afternoon when the temperature is hot, then piled up in a pyramid layered way to modulate the temperature of the cherries throughout the day. This helps to even out the fermentation and avoid the development of "boozyFunky / lacticTasting language for deliberate fermentation flavor: yogurt-like tang (lactic), winey or boozy notes, overripe fruit. A feature in experimental lots, a defect in classic ones." flavours sometimes associated with naturals.