Costa Rica - Ivan Solis - Vara Blanca | Raisin Honey - Archived

Origin

• 🇨🇷 Costa Rica

Tasting notes

Character

• Funky
• Sweet

Iván Gerardo Solís Rivera has been dedicated to everything coffee for over 20 years. This includes coffee growing, processing and quality control. He worked for years at two of the largest milling operations in the country before starting his Café Solis & Cordero project with his family, founding their own dry mill in 2018. A certified Q-grader since 2009, he has spent the last decade or so experimenting with innovative processing techniques. Solis & Cordero Micromill was founded in 2018 by the Solís Cordero family to help support smallholdersSmallholderA farmer growing coffee on a small family plot — often under two hectares. Most of the world's coffee is grown this way, typically pooled at cooperatives or washing stations. in the Santos region. The mill provides a 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. of services including cherry processing, selling specialty coffee to international destinations, selling roasted coffee in Costa Rica, consulting on processing and quality control, and export services. For smallholders working with Solis & Cordero, the mill helps them differentiate their coffee by maintaining farm-level traceability and by using innovative, quality-focused processing methods to further improve coffee. In this Raisin Honey processHoney 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. cherries are washedWashed 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. with clean water and then fermented in tanks for 72 hours. It is then removed to raised beds for a further 72 hours before being pulped and placed back on beds for 14 days.