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Origin: southern boundary of Costa
Rica, bordering La Amistad International Park
Altitude: 1200 meters
Processing Method: washed, sun-dried
Variety:
Organic & Shade-Grown
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The Story:
Costa Rica is one of the friendliest coffee-growing
countries in the world. Flavor profiles exhibited in these
strictly hard bean, high altitiude coffees are predominantly
bold, spicy, chocolaty and rich.
For more than 60 years, La Amistad has been
a pioneer in socially and environmentally sustainable coffee
production, long pre-dating the recent development of certification
seals. Included within the parameters of the roughly 25,000
acre estate on the Panamanian border are 22 small family
farms which were given to neighboring families in 1940 by
estate founder Jorge Zeledón Castro, grandfather
of the current owners. La Amistad ensures these farmers
a premium price for their organic, high quality beans. The
remaining 95% of the estate's land is dedicated to rainforest
conservation, research and an ecolodge, and is home to quetzals,
jaguars, monkeys, tapirs, more than 400 species of birds,
and some of the world's rarest butterflies. It forms part
of UNESCO's Amistad Biosphere Reserve.
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