Aquiares H1 - Costa Rica - Espresso - Washed Coffee

TASTE NOTES
Brown Sugar, Dark Chocolate, Vanilla

VARIETAL
Centroamericano H1

PROCESS
Washed

ALTITUDE
1200 masl

We are always thrilled to have coffees from Aquiares Estate in Costa Rica as we have known Diego Robelo for several years now, first meeting him when he came to visit us in our Roastery. Our head Roaster Tim has also travelled with him in Colombia whilst visiting farms in the region
of Antioquia. We hope to visit him one day in Costa Rica where he now manages the Aquiares Estate where he has taken over from his father Alfonso.

Aquiares to us, is a perfect model for large scale coffee farming. Diego’s father evolved the farm into a community, with a 200 strong workforce and provided affordable homes. Diego has carried this on recently making the farm carbon neutral and regularly welcomes researchers to the farm to conduct agricultural and environmental studies.

Centroamericano H1 is an F1 hybrid variety generated by crossing the Sarchimor T-5296 and a wild Rume Sudan variety. It is reproduced through a tissue culture cloning process called somatic embryogenesis. This cultivar has been distributed among coffee producers in Central America over the last decade and the first productive harvests are now available.