LICHO (Releasing 21th October)

Suitable for: Espresso & Filter Brewing
Best As: Espresso (Black), & Filter (Black)

Flavour Description: Grapefruit, Mandarin, Honey, Chamomile

Producer: Dylan Aguilera
Farm: Finca Licho
Region: Naranjos
Variety: ET-47
Process: Washed

Q-Score: 87.25
Sourced via: Dylan Aguilera (Direct)

Recommended Rest: For the best tasting brew out of this specialty coffee Costa Rica, we'd suggest resting this for 21-49 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 his farm Finca Matilde, in addition to farms operated by his brothers at Finca Toño, Finca Licho and El Roble. Finca Toño was acquired by the Aguilera family over a decade ago.

They planted cypress trees to create natural fences and windbreaks, facilitating the establishment of the first coffee lots. It took approximately five to six years to develop these initial lots, which ultimately became among the best farms for the Aguilera family, propelling them into the Cup of Excellence with their Geisha, San Roque, and ET-47 Varietals.

Today, the farm is cultivated with six different coffee varieties, one of the most recent being the ET-47.

ET-47 is an exceptionally rare variety, nowadays mostly found in Costa Rica and Guatemala, although the parentage of the variety delineates from Ethiopian landraces. 

This lot is processed as a washed coffee and perfectly expresses the ET-47 variety in all its glory, 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.