Costa Rica Volcan Azul Honey - Klatch Coffee

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Our new coffee from Costa Rica offers bright and subtle "perfumy" notes with various chocolate spices on the nose, turning into honey covered raspberry, tart-cherry and sweet tangerine flavors in the cup.

At the end of the 19th century, when coffee production was in its early beginnings in America, without knowing it, two pioneers and entrepreneurs, Alejo C. Jiménez in Costa Rica and Wilhelm Kahle in the south of Mexico, shared the same dream: “To produce the best coffee in the world” to satisfy the new demanding European gourmet market. More than a century has passed and today the fourth and fifth generations of descendants of these visionary farmers still produce coffee within the same ideals of excellency and top quality that inspired their ancestors. They produced one of the best pure coffees of the world with its Brand “F.C.J. VOLCÁN AZUL” on the slopes of the Poás Volcano in Costa Rica. 

Today, the production process starts with the planting of the coffee trees on highly fertile volcanic soil above 1200 mts above sea level (SHB). It continues with a meticulous process at the coffee mill and finally ends with a strict preparation of the export qualities, which are roasted to reach the final consumer. Nowadays, the descendants of Don Alejo C. and Don Wilhelm want to enhance further the principles of quality inherited by our founders by adding the value of conservancy of natural resources, through the acquisition of extensions of natural rainforest for its protection and conservation. These facts, not just words, are small actions taken by one family to reduce air contamination and global warming. This is the contribution we want to make to mankind, this is the new awareness we want to inherit to our future generations.

Coffee production in Costa Rica began in 1779 in the Meseta Central which had ideal soil and climate conditions for coffee plantations. Coffea arabica first imported to Europe through Arabia, whence it takes its name, was introduced to the country directly from Ethiopia. In the nineteenth century, the Costa Rican government strongly encouraged coffee production, and the industry fundamentally transformed a colonial regime and village economy built on direct extraction by a city-based elite towards organized production for export on a larger scale. The government offered farmers plots of land for anybody who wanted to harvest the plants. The coffee plantation system in the country therefore developed in the nineteenth century largely as result of the government's open policy, although the problem with coffee barons did play a role in internal differentiation, and inequality in growth. Soon coffee became a major source of revenue surpassing cacao, tobacco, and sugar production as early as 1829.

REGION: West Valley
VARIETAL: Caturra 
FARM: Volcan Azul
ALTITUDE: 1500-1600 M 
FARMER: FERNANDO CASTRO JIMÉNEZ and ALEJO CASTRO KAHLE 
ROAST: Medium 
NOTES: Honey Process

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