Costa Rican Coffee Types

Not all Costa Rican Coffee is born equal!

Listed in order of coffee quality, the different type of coffee's that are produced in Costa Rica's coffee regions. Our coffee plantation is in the Tarazu region where we select only the finest beans from our organic, shade grown coffee plants. Tarazu is recognized world wide as the finest in Costa Rica ( and maybe even the world) and Coffee de Costa Rica is the finest and freshest of Tarazu!

1) - CAFE ATARAZU:
This bean comes from the volcanic mountains of Dota off the Great Mountain Range named "Talamanca" a range with rocky ladders and fertile valleys. This area is known as "Los Santos"(The Saints), where the catholic tradition of the country has obligated its town and cities to adopt biblical names. The devotion of its people to their beliefs, gives the coffee crops they offer, a unique taste of divine inspiration. Its taste in the cup has a very good body, exquisite aroma and excellent acidity. These characteristic are very well liked by Europeans, Americans and Japanese gourmet coffee drinkers.
Zone: Tarrazú
Harvest: November through February.
Type: Strictly Hard Bean(SHB).
Altitude: 1200 - 1750 meters.

2) - CAFE ZURQUI
This coffee is cropped in one of the oldest plantation areas due to kindness of the soil and the excellent bean quality that it produces. On the slopes of the Zurqui Hilla, close to the central Volcano Range, this beautiful, fertile, and quiet province, with a taste of the good old times, is where this unique coffee with high acidity, very good body and aroma, is produced.
Zone: Heredia
Harvest: November through February.
Type: Strictly Hard Bean(SHB).
Altitude: 1200 - 1500 meters.

3) - CAFE LA CARPINTERA:
La Carpintera Hill, resembling and island in the middle of the Central Valley, captures the goodness of the climate from the plateful, with the conditions of the highlands. These characteristic are unique for producing quality coffee. Its soil is extremely fertile. A pleasant climate all the year round with un excellent temperature for the coffee cropping, brings to the cup an exquisite balance between body, aroma and acidity.
Zone: Tres Ríos
Harvest: November through February.
Type: Strictly Hard Bean(SHB).
Altitude: 1200 - 1400 meters.

4) - CAFE UJARRACI
This coffee, grown on a beautiful landscape, a fertile valley an a lake with crystal clear waters, near the paradise zone of Cachí in the Reventazón River Basin. All these surroundings give us the feeling of an enormous garden. This fertile land of colonial beauty, offers an exquisite coffee. The influence of the Atlantic's climate and the characteristics of the valley it self make this coffee unique.
Zone: Cachí
Harvest: October through December.
Type: High Grown Atlantic(HGA).
Altitude: 900 - 1200 meters.

5) - CAFE EL GRAN VITO
In 1941. a colony of italian immigrants decide to try and make fortune with their bare hands by colonizing this far land of the country. Today this city still posses the influence of those first settlers and their strong character and appraisal for the goodness of the land. This coffee can be tasted in the coffee cropped by these people, a unique string taste, but at the same time it is light and grateful, like the mountains and forest that surround this city.
Zone: Coto Brus
Harvest: October through December.
Type: Medium Hard Bean(MHB).
Altitude: 800 - 1200 meters.

6) - CAFE BUENA VISTA
An old story tells "...One who drinks the water of the General(General River), stays forever living in the Valle del General(General's River Valley)". This valley is surrounded by the most impressive mountains in Costa Rica. If there is a place in the whole country that symbolizes the exact words of the Costarrican National Anthem, referring to peace and work, it's San Isidro, the main city of the valley. Its coffee invites us to very hard working people. A city developed by very humble, but prideful peasants, has made this place one of the fastest growing in both agricultural productions and economical levels. With an average temperature of 24 centigrade, this last frontier, conquered by barefooted peasants, satisfies us with a coffee with good aroma and body, and a delightful acidity in its cup.
Zone: San Isidro del General
Harvest: October through December.
Type: Medium Hard Bean(MHB).
Altitude: 400 - 1200 meters.