SAN GUILLERMO
SAN GUILLERMO
COMMUNITY COFFEES OF COSTA RICA
TASTING NOTES Caramel and nut aroma, praline, cola and brown sugar flavours, silky mouthfeel with a delicate acidity and a lingering syrupy aftertaste.
COFFEE INFORMATION Specific Community: San Lorenzo Canton (region): Tarrazu District: San Marcos Elevation: 1500-1700masl Variety: Catuai, Caturra
THE DAYS OF MERELY LUMPING A REGION’S TOTAL PRODUCTION INTO MIXED CONTAINERS ARE LONG GONE. CONSCIOUS THOUGHT IS NOW BEING GIVEN BY PRODUCERS, EXPORTERS AND ROASTERS ALIKE TO KEEPING COMMUNITIES AND THEIR PROFILES INTACT WHENEVER POSSIBLE. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT COOPETARRAZU OF COSTA RICA IS DOING WITH THEIR COMMUNITY COFFEE PROGRAMME. As part of this programme, communities are given the opportunity to keep their coffees separate if they wish. This is invaluable as it
gives individual communities real marketability and an identity based around their microregion and the variables which contribute to its profile in the cup. However, that’s only part of the reason why we have chosen to join this initiative. Each of the coffees bought from the Community Coffee Programme receive a premium for being of specialty grade, but the premium is structured in such a way that a percentage goes directly back to the community. The community then decide together how this money is to be spent. Over the past year, one community used this money to strengthen infrastructure and another used it to build a gymnasium at the local school.
Process: Washed Drying: Sun dried / Patios Community production size: 265 bags
COMMUNITY COFFEES OF COSTA RICA
"OVER THE PAST Another great facet of the programme is that CoopeTarrazu has hired Ricardo Hernandez, manager of La Candelilla Estate, to consult and push forward the programme. Tarrazu has long been heralded as an internationally recognized region for coffee production, but with these Community Coffees we will get an in-depth look at the region, its coffees and the communities they represent.
San Guillermo San Guillermo is a community steeped in tradition. Many years back the Nobe Guaymie indigenous people came to help the coffee producers of the region harvest and work their land. Naturally they set up a nearby village where there community could live and maintain its culture. That village turned into the township of San Guillermo and nowadays the culture of the Nobe Guaymie is still present. So much in fact that Costa Rica’s Ministry of Education teaches many programs in their native tongue and created a uniform that resembles their indigenous clothing. San Guillermo produces some of the best coffee in the canton of Tarrazu. It is blessed with great elevation and one of the primary rivers that acts as a major water source for the entire region.
YEAR, ONE COMMUNITY USED THIS MONEY TO STRENGTHEN INFRASTRUCTURE AND ANOTHER USED IT TO BUILD A
GYMNASIUM AT THE LOCAL SCHOOL.”
COMMUNITY COFFEES OF COSTA RICA
TASTING NOTES Caramel and nut aroma, praline, cola and brown sugar flavours, silky mouthfeel with a delicate acidity and a lingering syrupy aftertaste.
COFFEE INFORMATION Specific Community: San Lorenzo Canton (region): Tarrazu District: San Marcos Elevation: 1500-1700masl Variety: Catuai, Caturra
THE DAYS OF MERELY LUMPING A REGION’S TOTAL PRODUCTION INTO MIXED CONTAINERS ARE LONG GONE. CONSCIOUS THOUGHT IS NOW BEING GIVEN BY PRODUCERS, EXPORTERS AND ROASTERS ALIKE TO KEEPING COMMUNITIES AND THEIR PROFILES INTACT WHENEVER POSSIBLE. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT COOPETARRAZU OF COSTA RICA IS DOING WITH THEIR COMMUNITY COFFEE PROGRAMME. As part of this programme, communities are given the opportunity to keep their coffees separate if they wish. This is invaluable as it
gives individual communities real marketability and an identity based around their microregion and the variables which contribute to its profile in the cup. However, that’s only part of the reason why we have chosen to join this initiative. Each of the coffees bought from the Community Coffee Programme receive a premium for being of specialty grade, but the premium is structured in such a way that a percentage goes directly back to the community. The community then decide together how this money is to be spent. Over the past year, one community used this money to strengthen infrastructure and another used it to build a gymnasium at the local school.
Process: Washed Drying: Sun dried / Patios Community production size: 265 bags
COMMUNITY COFFEES OF COSTA RICA
"OVER THE PAST Another great facet of the programme is that CoopeTarrazu has hired Ricardo Hernandez, manager of La Candelilla Estate, to consult and push forward the programme. Tarrazu has long been heralded as an internationally recognized region for coffee production, but with these Community Coffees we will get an in-depth look at the region, its coffees and the communities they represent.
San Guillermo San Guillermo is a community steeped in tradition. Many years back the Nobe Guaymie indigenous people came to help the coffee producers of the region harvest and work their land. Naturally they set up a nearby village where there community could live and maintain its culture. That village turned into the township of San Guillermo and nowadays the culture of the Nobe Guaymie is still present. So much in fact that Costa Rica’s Ministry of Education teaches many programs in their native tongue and created a uniform that resembles their indigenous clothing. San Guillermo produces some of the best coffee in the canton of Tarrazu. It is blessed with great elevation and one of the primary rivers that acts as a major water source for the entire region.
YEAR, ONE COMMUNITY USED THIS MONEY TO STRENGTHEN INFRASTRUCTURE AND ANOTHER USED IT TO BUILD A
GYMNASIUM AT THE LOCAL SCHOOL.”
