Note: All customer orders are roasted on Thursday. Orders must be received by Wednesday morning to be roasted the following Thursday. If purchasing locally, please allow a minimum of four days from roast date for the flavor of the coffee to fully develop. Thank you!
Also, if you are local, you can choose Pick Up instead of Ship at the end of your order and save on shipping.
Roast Level: medium
Region: los santos
Processing Method: washed
Drying Method: patio and drum dried
Variety: catuai and caturra
Altitude: 1280 - 1800 masl
Cupping Profile: sweet and balanced, creamy body, bright acidity, and notes of milk chocolate, citrus and caramel.
Los Santos is a stunning, mountainous zone in central-southern Costa Rica, in the province of San José. It encompasses the cantons of Dota, Leon Cortes Castro and Tarrazú—the latter of which is the most well-known and respected coffee area in Costa Rica.
In 2019, Tarrazú received a Denomination of Origin (DOE) certification, a legal distinction that, like Champagne in France, can only be applied to coffees from the area. For decades, a swath of these mountains — all benefitting from the same cool, humid climates, rich, volcanic soil, narrow valleys and lofty altitudes — were considered Tarrazú. The legal determination, however, is a decidedly smaller portion of the area.
Our new Los Santos Diez Pueblos, previously Tarrazú Don Roberto, has been renamed to reflect that change and to celebrate exactly where this coffee is from — which is exactly the same land and the same thousands of smallholder producers that it has always come from.
We’re thrilled with the new logo (created by an artist in Costa Rica) and hope you’ll like it, too!
Diez Pueblos
Zona Los Santos (or, Valley of the Saints) is home to numerous small towns. However, 10 towns — San Marcos, San Lorenzo, San Carlos, Santa Maria, San Gerardo, San Pablo, San Andreas, San Isidro, Santa Cruz and Copey — hold most of its population and define its coffee culture, and so inspired our new brand.
In these 10 towns, like in so much of Costa Rica, life revolves around the church, the soccer field and the town café. Coffee is also an enormous focus in these communities. It’s estimated that approximately 7,000 families in Los Santos typically produce about half a million bags of coffee each year.
Coffee Processing
This coffee was hand picked by smallholder producers and delivered, at the end of the harvest day, to either the Palmichal micro-mill or two other nearby mills. Throughout the night, the coffee was de-pulped and washed. It was later dried on patios and finally mechanically dried at low temperatures and with steady airflow.
NKG export company Ceca developed this coffee for InterAmerican and each year deliver a cup that meets the same profile: Sweet and balanced, creamy body, bright acidity, and notes of milk chocolate, citrus and caramel.