FREE SHIPPING OVER $65
Costa Rica San Francisco 1900 Tarrazu Microlot

Thumbnail Filmstrip of Costa Rica San Francisco 1900 Tarrazu Microlot Images

    Purchase Costa Rica San Francisco 1900 Tarrazu Microlot

    Costa Rica San Francisco 1900 Tarrazu Microlot

    Cup Characteristics: This wonderful coffee has a nice clean, bright and sophisticated style. This is classic Costa Rica Tarrazu with orange, lemon complexity. Nutty, herbal with notes of maple syrup and papaya. Structured, lively acidity. Long aftertaste. Refined, elegant, classy coffee. The high elevation at which this coffee is grown makes for concentrated flavors.
    $18.00
    Select Size:
     

    2023 new crop coffee, that arrived in grainpro bags for freshness. This is a direct trade coffee.

    Costa Rica San Francisco 1900 from Tarrazu is back in our lineup. This coffee is one of our all time customer favorites. This new crop was packed in grainpro bags at origin and is bursting with flavor. The 1900 in its name is derived from the farm's elevation at 1900 meters making it one of the highest altitude coffee farms in Costa Rica.

    We visited Hector Bonilla a couple of times in recent years, having a great time with him and his family at the Don Mayo micro mill that they own and operate. In addition to being one of the pre-eminent new boutique mills in Costa Rica, Hector also owns several parcels of choice coffee producing land in surrounding Tarrazu, including this wonderful San Francisco parcel, high up in the clouds. During our days in the area we cupped many, many coffees, all blindly, and the San Francisco spoke to us as it had when we offered it for the first time. It's so nice when you discover something of quality produced by people with the best intentions and the skill to realize their vision.

    The Bonilla Solis family, owners of the Bella Vista Tarrazu farm and Don Mayo micromill, is frequently in the top slots of the Costa Rica Cup of Excellence. The competition seeks to find and reward the best coffee in Costa Rica each year, a country with thousands of coffee farms.  They won 1st place in 2020 for a Geisha coffee from this same La Loma plot; the unroasted coffee sold at auction for about $70 a pound (this is a Caturra varietal). They won first in the 2009 Cup of Excellence competition too. The winning coffee was from their Bella Vista 1900 farm (also 1900 meters high) owned by Josue Bonilla Solis. In between, they have been in top positions most years, attesting to the commitment they make to growing excellence.  We are pleased to offer San Francisco 1900, coffee from the elevation and micro mill as these winning lots, but at a fraction of the price. This is a direct trade coffee. Some of Don Mayo's many awards inclue:

    • Cup of Excellence 2020 - #1
    • Cup of Excellence 2016 - #5
    • Cup of Excellence 2014 - #6
    • Cup of Excellence 2013 - #4 and #10
    • Cup of Excellence 2011 - #7
    • Cup of Excellence 2009 - #1
    • Cup of Excellence 2008 - #3

    The Tarrazu region has extremely mountainous terrain, high elevations and some of the best growing conditions for coffee in Central America. The lot area, called San Francisco de León Cortés, is a micro region on the Bella Vista farm located at 1900 meters, about 6250 feet. The nearby Don Mayo boutique coffee mill which processed this coffee, as well as the farm itself is a family owned company of the Bonilla Solís family. So, there is total control and continuity between the farm's production and the micro mill's processing. The family has been active in quality coffee growing and production in Tarrazu for more than 50 years.

    Varietal is 100% Caturra, traditionally processed at the Don Mayo micromill. This includes depulping, fermentation, washing, patio drying in the sun, and, after a couple of months of repose, the coffee is milled before shipping. Of note, we purchased this coffee in Grainpro bags so they have and will continue to be protected from moisture, taste and external odors. This will optimize the coffee's flavors and keep the coffee at its peak longer.

    • Farm: San Francisco
    • Producer: Hector Bonilla & Family
    • Country: Costa Rica
    • Region: Tarrazù
    • Micro region: San Marcos of Tarrazù
    • Coffee variety: Caturra
    • Altitude: 1900 meters / 6230 feet above sea level
    • Processing: Fully Washed aka White Honey