Suitable for: Espresso & Filter Brewing
Best As: Espresso (Black), Filter (Black)
Flavour Description: Tangerine, White Grape, Marigold, Demerara Sugar, Honey
Producer: Hermanos Aguilera
Farm: Finca Toño
Region: Naranjos
Variety: Mixed Cultivar
Process: Yellow Honey
Q-Score: 86.50
Sourced via: Dylan Aguilera (Direct)
Recommended Rest: For the best tasting brew out of this specialty coffee from Costa Rica, we'd suggest resting this for 18-35 days off roast - we wrote a coffee blog on this here.
About This Coffee
Some of you may remember that we featured coffees from Dylan and his brothers last year. We were so impressed by the transparency, care, attention and endless detail that he was willing to share with us that this year, we decided to offer Dylan a contract to provide us a lot more coffee this year, booking back in February, while our Yellow Honey Milenio was still on the offer list - to get ahead of the current harvest and book some exceptional coffees.
This year, we have worked directly with Dylan to purchase from him and his brothers, and purchased this lot 'El Roble'. When Dylan presented us with these coffees, we were blown away by the quality and asked just how much of the El Roble blend he had - 25 sacks was the answer... So we bought all of it! All 1725kg.
We're so thrilled to be able to strengthen our partnership together and supply some of the best coffees we've found.
This lot contains a number of high value cultivar sourced from Dylan's brothers, and some other smallholders from the Los Robles village. The coffee is processed as a Yellow Honey, with the majority of the coffee coming from the Villa Sarchi variety, acting as a shining a light on the exemplary Costa Rican terroir, in addition to Dylan's exceptional cultivation prowess. Dylan also won the 2023 Cup Tasters Championship in Costa Rica, as any UK Competitor will know, this is one of the hardest disciplines to master.
