Los Crestones: Villalobos, Costa Rica

Origin

• 🇨🇷 Costa Rica

Tasting notes

Character

• Bright
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• Clean
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In the hills surrounding the tiny town of Piedra de Rivas, near the Chirripó National Forest, a dozen producing families have come together to build a micro-milling facility called Beneficio Los Crestones. We’re celebrating almost two full decades of working with these families, and continue to fall in love with their coffees every year. This lot separates the Villalobos 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.–one of the heirloomHeirloom (Ethiopia)A catch-all label for Ethiopia's thousands of indigenous, largely uncatalogued coffee varieties — used when a lot's exact genetics are unknown. varieties of Costa Rica–making for a sweet and bright cup, with notes of lemon-lime, graham cracker, and oranges.