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SAN LORENZO
COMMUNITY COFFEES OF COSTA RICA
TASTING NOTES Biscuit and sweet malt Aroma, brown sugar, gently layered herbal complexity and a saturated silky aftertaste.
COFFEE INFORMATION Specific Community: San Lorenzo Mill: Cooperative Tarrazu Canton (region): Tarrazu Elevation: 1400-1700masl 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. Another great facet of the programme is that CoopeTarrazu has hired Ricardo Hernandez,
Process: Washed
COMMUNITY COFFEES OF COSTA RICA
"OVER THE PAST 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 Lorenzo San Lorenzo is a community and town rich in coffee farming history. As one of the first communities to grow coffee in the region its main economic activity is still coffee. There are 210 small farmers from this area that participate in this program. Proudly, 36 of those are women operated. The community also could be characterized as generous. Its concern for welfare and quality of life extends beyond its own communities. For example, San Lorenzo houses an oversized school so neighbours from other communities have a place to bus and educate their young ones.
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 Biscuit and sweet malt Aroma, brown sugar, gently layered herbal complexity and a saturated silky aftertaste.
COFFEE INFORMATION Specific Community: San Lorenzo Mill: Cooperative Tarrazu Canton (region): Tarrazu Elevation: 1400-1700masl 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. Another great facet of the programme is that CoopeTarrazu has hired Ricardo Hernandez,
Process: Washed
COMMUNITY COFFEES OF COSTA RICA
"OVER THE PAST 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 Lorenzo San Lorenzo is a community and town rich in coffee farming history. As one of the first communities to grow coffee in the region its main economic activity is still coffee. There are 210 small farmers from this area that participate in this program. Proudly, 36 of those are women operated. The community also could be characterized as generous. Its concern for welfare and quality of life extends beyond its own communities. For example, San Lorenzo houses an oversized school so neighbours from other communities have a place to bus and educate their young ones.
YEAR, ONE COMMUNITY USED THIS MONEY TO STRENGTHEN INFRASTRUCTURE AND ANOTHER USED IT TO BUILD A
GYMNASIUM AT THE LOCAL SCHOOL.”
