Costa Rica Las Lajas – Villa Sarchi | Future Classic No. 07
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Costa Rica Las Lajas – Villa Sarchi | Future Classic No. 07
Intense, bold, yet elegant.
Why we love it:
It’s not every day you come across a Villa Sarchi like this. What makes it stand out is how it preserves the variety’s clean and delicate character — even though there’s a touch of funk from fermentation, it stays subtle and never overshadows the cup.
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REGION |
Central Valley |
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PRODUCER / FARM |
Las Lajas |
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ALTITUDE |
1500m |
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VARIETIES |
Villa Sarchi |
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PROCESSING |
Natural |
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Las Lajas - Alma negra
Costa Rica is a small country but the diversity of climates found there and their impact on coffee production has led to a coffee industry that punches above its weight. The first coffee was grown in the Central Valley, a lush, fertile region influenced by Atlantic weather patterns. Six farms owned by six brothers and together comprising 73ha and a mill are located in the town of Sabanilla de Alajuela, on the slopes of the Poas volcano. The mill stands at 1,300 masl and the farms above at 1,450-1,500 masl. The mill, which produces about 2,000 exportable bags per year, is owned and run by Oscar Chacon and his wife Francisca, with help from their four children, the eldest of whom took the second level of the Q Processing course in 2020.
The Chacon farms
The Chacon farms are mostly run along organic farming principles. It has become more costly and complicated to gain official organic certification and the family felt that certification wasn`t adding sufficient value to their product so they let their certification lapse. However, organic principles have remained fundamental to their farming philosophy, with a chemical-free production process, pulp from the mill being used to make compost for the coffee plants, and processes that use only one cubic meter of water per day.
Innovation
Innovation is central to the farms, and the family has experimented with different coffee varieties. They now grow Caturra, Red and Yellow Catuai, Paraiso (Sarchimore and Catuai), Milenio, Villa Sarchi, Geisha, Pacamara and SL8.
The harvest here runs from December to February, and after harvest the coffees are floated using Penagos machines before being processed. The honeys are first dried on beds in the sun, being moved when the desired colour is reached the longer the drying, the darker the honey (black honey is not moved at all for the first two days after pulping). When they move the patios, they flip the crust formed rather than create rows with a rake as they have found this makes for a more consistent lot. They have given names to the different processes they have developed, including Alma Negra, Perla Negra and Yellow Diamond.
Oscar and Francisca started working on their own but they now employ 20 people in the mill and up to 100 pickers.
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Mi-a plăcut mult cafeaua asta! Are o dulceață plăcută, note fructate delicate și un gust curat, cu o notă discretă mai „funky” care o face interesantă. Se bea super ușor și îți lasă un aftertaste tare fain, fin care ramane o vreme cu tine. O cafea pe care chiar vrei sa o bei din nou fără să stai pe gânduri.