Garabito Tarrazu Pulp Natural 100% Honey
Sun-Dried "African Natural Style" Micro Lot

The Costa Rican Tarrazu coffee from Finca Sixto in Garabito is a fully pulped, natural, sun-dried coffee. The term "100% Honey" refers to the process of sun drying the coffee in 100% of the fruit pulp, as opposed to washing any amount of the fruit away before sun drying on raised African drying beds. For the past two or three years, Sun-Drying Costa Rican coffee on raised African drying beds has become the way small micro-lot producers are distinguishing themselves from larger producers. By utilizing this labor intensive and more primitive method, the end result is small quantities of amazingly flavorful coffee. This rivals in every way the larger crops of more predictable and available kiln-dried coffee from Costa Rica.

Costa Rican coffee is clean and light in character, embodying the best of what can be accomplished when truly co-operative, modern farm communities develop clean and ecologically sound, forward thinking processing practices. This is an incredibly clean coffee, clear with the flavor of chocolate malt and deep sweet cherry. When hot, the coffee seems deceptively sweet, as it cools the flavor develops a more round and robust character. A strong, sharp, distinct taste of ripe coffee cherry pervades the entire cup. The aroma is particularly fresh sweet cherry; imagine sniffing a freshly opened cherry cola while sipping a sweet hot chocolate with a touch of malt, and you have an idea of what I'm talking about!

This is the first of our Costa Rica Micro Lot coffee to be featured this year. This coffee is a stunning example of micro-lot attention to detail in processing. I have exactly 15 sacks of this coffee to offer, no more will be produced this year. I highly recommend you sample this coffee.

I expect to cup Pulp Natural Costa Rican Palmares Honey Dried coffee again this year, in fact I will be in San Fransisco at our importer when they open the containers arriving in June 2010.