Cup of Excellence Costa Rica #7 Santa Teresa Geisha - Washed
Cup of Excellence Costa Rica #7 Santa Teresa Geisha - Washed
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Tasting Notes
Specific flavors and aromas the roaster (or our team) noticed when cupping this coffee. They describe the brewed cup, not flavorings added to the beans.
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Roast Level
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Roast Level
How dark the beans are roasted, on a 'specialty' scale where Light/Ultralight preserves the most origin character.
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Flavor Profile
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Flavor Profile
High-level flavor families this coffee leans toward — fruity, floral, sweet, chocolate/nutty, spicy, tea/botanical, or fermented/wine-like.
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Origin Type
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Coffee Type
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Flavor Notes
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Flavor Notes (SCA)
More specific flavor families inside the broader profile, using the SCA Coffee Taster's Flavor Wheel — e.g. 'Citrus' and 'Berry' inside 'Fruity'.
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Caffeine
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Caffeine
Whether this coffee is caffeinated or decaffeinated, and (for decaf) which process was used.
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Country of Origin
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Country of Origin
Where in the world this coffee was grown, or 'Multiple' for a blend with beans from more than one country.
Read more in the glossary → - Costa Rica
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Process Type
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Processing
How the coffee cherry was prepared after picking — dried with or without its fruit, fermented under specific conditions, etc. Big effect on the final cup.
Read more in the glossary → - Washed
Next up in our COE season is this award-winning Costa Rican geisha from Santa Teresa. This coffee won #7 in the "Traditional Washed" category in this year's Costa Rican Cup of Excellence. Despite being a washed process, this coffee tastes like a clean natural, with purple fruit flavors of blueberry, cherry, and plum.
We're also bundling this coffee in the COE Combo Box Set which pairs it with our COE Honduras "Traditional" #10 winner, Las Acacias!
Also available green for home roasters!
Roger Hidalgo grew up working on his father’s coffee farm and at just 15 years old he began his own plantation. After years of hard work expanding his farms, he founded the Santa Teresa mill in the year 2000, handling varieties such as geisha, sudan rume, pacamara, typica, SL-28, and more. Santa Teresa is a broad, regional effort— families from Panama pick the cherries, and families from Costa Rica and Nicaragua tend the farm.
Santa Teresa sits at 2000 meters, allowing for cool nights that slow the fermentation and drying of the cherry. This award-winning lot was picked ripe and rested in whole cherry for two nights. It was then depulped, washed, and rested again before a final 6 hour fresh water soak and transfer to drying beds.
This is our first of hopefully many offerings of Roger’s coffees!
Process: washed
Region: Los Santos, Costa Rica
Variety: Geisha
Make sure to check that the roast date you've selected is what you're looking for — if there is an "upcoming roast" for this coffee, the upcoming roast date is listed under the tasting notes at the top of this product page.
