San Ignacio de Acosta - Costa Rica - Washed Red Caturra, Red Catuai

Flavor: Caramel, milk chocolate, citrus

Cupping score: 85

Origin: Costa Rica

Region: Los Santos

Producer: Castro family

Varietal: Red Caturra, Red Catuai

Process: Washed

Altitude: 1400-1600 MASL 

Roasted for: Espresso - Medium roast

ABOUT

The Castro family is developing regenerative agriculture to care for the soil and continue cultivating sustainably for as long as possible. The Los Santos region is distinguished by its altitude and clay soil, where coffee of the highest quality grows. 

Since the 1970s, the Castro family farms have grown the main variety, the Caturra. It is a mutation of Bourbon with high flavour qualities. To obtain this very good coffee, everything starts with the trees. Only the very ripe cherries are picked by hand in three or four passes. 

This in no way detracts from the Castro family's high standards. Once the cherries have been sorted by flotation, they are pulped and washed. The beans are then dried in mechanical dryers. Once dried, they are sorted by size, density and colour, to export the most homogenous batches possible.