Our single estate Costa Rica El Tigre is a Vournas Coffee Trading exclusive, and a long-standing company favorite aptly named after our mascot and logo. Our Costa Rica El Tigre is graded SHB/EP and produced by two wonderful, multi-generation coffee familias. The farms are located northeast of Costa Rica’s capital city San Jose, high up in the volcanic mountains of Heredia and Barva. This area is also part of Costa Rica’s famed Central Valley coffee growing region.
Crisp, clean, bright acidity, with notes of lemon tart citrus and a slight hint of toasted almond nuttiness in the finish.
The Costa Rica El Tigre is comprised of mostly catuai, caturra and typica varietals. It is washed and wet milled on site at the family’s private mill in Barva, and either sun dried or mechanically dried depending on weather and precipitation. The dried beans are safely stored in the parchment until the exact time it’s ready to ship. Then and only then is the parchment removed and the coffee prepped and sorted for export. Keeping the parchment on the green up until its point of export helps to retain moisture content, preserve acidity and protect unique varietal and farming characteristics, all of which are reflected in our cupping and quality scores.
We are very proud to say that we have been working with this Costa Rican family estate for 25 years. In that time we have built a wonderful, long-term relationship that provides us with the opportunity to market their fantastic coffee to our roasters.
Central Valley
Single Estate Grower
3,000 – 5,000 ft (900 - 1500m)
Oct - Feb
286
Forward ETA May. '24
285
Centro Americano, Caturra, Ensemble, Obata, Red Catuai, S795, Sarchimor, Villalobos, Villa Sarchi, Yellow Caturra
SHB, Microlot
Honey, Natural
2
SHB, Microlot
Natural
3
Microlot, SHB
Natural
10