El Ciprés, Costa Rica

Origin

• 🇨🇷 Costa Rica· West Valley

Tasting notes

Character

• Clean
  50
• Bright
  40

Osvaldo Gonzalez produces these Villalobos coffee cherries on his farm in Llano Bonito de Naranjo, West Valley, Costa Rica, at 1685 meters above sea level. Villalobos is a very highly regarded cultivarVariety (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.—closely related to TypicaTypicaThe oldest cultivated arabica lineage, ancestor of most Latin American coffee. Low yield, clean and sweet cup; the baseline other varieties are measured against.—that delivers complex and pleasing flavors in the cup. This coffee is expertly processed at the Helsar de Zarcero micro-mill in Costa Rica’s version of the washed processWashed processThe fruit is removed from the seed before drying, usually with fermentation and a water rinse. Tends to give clean, transparent cups where origin character shows clearly.. The skin of the cherries is removed via pulpers, and most of the sticky mucilage is mechanically removed before the coffee is dried on a special covered patio. The roof of the patio protects the moisture-vulnerable coffee from rain, while the mesh walls allow sunlight and airflow to slowly dry the coffee. Through longstanding relationships with family-run farms in the mountains of Costa Rica, we’re able to source some truly unique gems.