Costa Rica Alberto Guardia Bourbon
$ 23.00

12 oz recyclable valve bag

Origin: Costa Rica

Producer: Alberto Guardia
Farm: Hacienda Sonora
Process: Natural
Variety: Bourbon
Elevation: 1250 MASL

Tasting Notes:
Passion Fruit, Berry, Grenadine

Roaster's Notes

If you were of the lucky fans who received this coffee in our annual Holiday Gift Set box, then you know how amazing this coffee is. Hacienda Sonora's bourbon lots are their most spectacular and oldest lots on the farm. I have been buying this coffee for over a decade and watching the coffee get better with age. Many years ago this coffee was elegant but wild in its flavor profile and would be a lot to handle for the average coffee drinker. With its found maturity this coffee is still elegant but its harder corners have been softened by time and found a complexity is its softness. I absolutely love this coffee for many reasons, and have been drinking it non-stop since we launched the first Holiday Gift Box roast this year. We specially selected this coffee for our holiday box, but purchased a little bit extra to share with each of you!

Sonora Estate is one of our happy places. Our Green Coffee Buying team has spent many nights over the years drinking cervezas and communing with Alberto Guardia and his son Diego. They are the perfect coffee producing team and together they process many different excellent varieties. Their success comes from Alberto's cleanliness and expertise in sorting. The mill at Sonora Estate is the cleanest mill we have ever been to, it gets meticulously cleaned after every processing day and each batch is expertly watched by the team from beginning to end.
Alberto and Diego have invested a lot of their profits into expanding their operation, purchasing larger drying machines, color sorters, and logistics materials. These may not seem important but when scaling a coffee farm from small to medium volumes these are the processes that help a coffee farm grow.
Alberto and Diego are amazing, genuine people that we have loved for many years, and we hope that you do too.