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Costa Rica - El Mirador Natural
Tasting Notes: Cherry | Blueberry | Red Apple
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Costa Rica Coffee - El Mirador Natural
We visited El Mirador in 2020 and have been buying their coffee for four years. We love working with producers directly and it has enabled us to find some incredible coffees that return to us year on year.
Varietal – Villa Sarchi, some Catuai Preparation – Natural Location –West Valley, Costa Rica Altitude – 1500 masl Importer - Horsham Coffee Roaster
Farm Overview
El Mirador is located in the West Valley to the north-west of the capital, San Jose. The farm altitude is around 1500 masl and is located on the southern slopes of two volcanoes. El Mirador is owned by Olman Aguilera, a second-generation coffee producer. His family have been involved in coffee production for several decades. His wife and son are involved in the farm management and as a team, they manage their own farm as well those of several relatives.
This image shows the El Mirador farm from above:
The amazing Costa Rica coffee farm covers 15 hectares and includes a mix of coffee trees surrounded by indigenous protected forest.
Harvesting and Processing:
During the harvest Olman employes a team of pickers who are well trained and responsible for very selective harvesting and varietal separation on the farm. Costa Rica has strict labour laws and coffee pickers on speciality focused farms are always paid at least the legal minimum, often more. For this reason farms like El Mirador attract works from several neighbouring countries as they will be much better paid by travelling to pick coffee on farms in Costa Rica.
This image shows freshly harvested cherry at El Mirador. The yellow cherry comes from a small number of Yellow Catuai trees
After harvesting the coffee is taken to a local mill called La Eva. They are a specialist mill that processes coffee cherry on behalf of a wide range of local producers. Olman has chosen La Eva due to their dedication and focus on the production of high quality processed micro-lots. They keep all his coffee separate and drying is initially done in a thin layer on large plastic sheets. After the initial drying, the coffee is piled to slow down the drying and to help to create more intense fruit notes.
Piling the coffee helps to slow down the drying to create more intensefruit flavours through fermentation
After drying the coffee is cupped at the lab at La Eva and samples are prepared by our friends at Selva Coffee. Once we've confirmed our order the coffee is milled to removed the exterior fruit and sorted for density and size to ensure only the best quality gets through to the export stage.
Tasting Notes:
Juicy fruit flavours that include cherry, blueberry and red apple. This is a fantastic natural from Costa Rica and is packed with fruit flavours but still retains a really lovely acidity.
Absolutely fantastic coffee. Really distinctive ripe fruit notes from the natural processing. I wish I could order more, but it ran out!
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M.
Meh
Sadly I can barely tell this is a natural coffee. I was hoping for something earthy and funky, but this lacks so much. It’s not unpleasant by any means. But not what I wanted from an unwashed bean.
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N.G.
The best one!
I always love the natural processed coffees from Horsham, but this is by far my favourite. It has a funky fruity flavour that works brilliantly with the V60 pour-over.
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Mia
Funky fresh
Super interesting coffee - great flavour and the best we’ve had in a while!
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Josh Rush
A standout
Even my partner, who will drink coffee I make but doesn't really comment on it, has repeatedly mentioned how good of a cup these beans make.
Beautiful flavour & mouthfeel, super vibrant scent from the bag & during the brew. Great brew consistancy as I've come to expect from Horsham, shoutout quality control.
This Coffee is simply superb. An immediate richness and full body, all tasting notes on the package and website listing are spot on.
After 10 years with another company, a change of coffee brand felt good albeit with an element of trepidation. I ordered 1Kg of the Organic suspecting I’d use quite a few shots to get it how we like it. Not the case…straight off the bat with exactly the same grind setting as our old supplier’s coffee. So often different beans can have you up and down the grind settings like a yo yo 😤
My wife and I start our day with our sacred coffee and the Horsham Organic has given us a superior coffee experience to look forward to. Bravo 👍
Iv been with Horsham Coffee Roaster
For some time now & have tried many of there beans & to be honest love them all, my go to coffee everyday is Workhorse & iv just tried these Brazil Fazenda Inhame is a fabulous very smooth coffee highly recommend