Las Margaritas - Honey Process - 2025

Origin

• 🇨🇷 Costa Rica

Tasting notes

Character

• Sweet
  25

Named after his first daughter, Margarita, finca Las Margaritas was established by producer Emmanuel Solís in 2019 in the Santa Maria district of Dota. In addition to producing prized varieties like SL28SL28A Kenyan variety selected in the 1930s by Scott Agricultural Laboratories, prized for intense blackcurrant acidity and deep sweetness. and geshaGesha (Geisha)A rare, jasmine-and-bergamot scented variety originally from Ethiopia's Gesha forest, made famous by Panama's Hacienda La Esmeralda. Routinely the most expensive coffee at auction., Emmanuel has more recently explored cultivating hybrid varieties, such as the H3 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. presented in this honeyHoney processThe skin is removed but some sticky fruit mucilage is left on during drying. Lands between washed and natural: more sweetness and body than washed, cleaner than natural. processed lot. This hybrid variety is a cross between caturraCaturraA natural dwarf mutation of Bourbon found in Brazil: compact plants, easier picking, bright and clean cup. A workhorse across Latin America. and an Ethiopian landraceHeirloom (Ethiopia)A catch-all label for Ethiopia's thousands of indigenous, largely uncatalogued coffee varieties — used when a lot's exact genetics are unknown. variety from the collection at the Tropical Agricultural Research center known as CATIE, based in Turrialba, Costa Rica. In the cup we taste tangy passionfruit and citrus as well as richly sweet flavors of caramelized nuts and cocoa.