Costa Rica Alberto Guardia Obata

12 oz recyclable valve bag

Origin: Costa Rica

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

Tasting Notes:
Cherry, Chamomile, Apple Pie

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. Alberto + Diego invested a lot in this field of Obata variety in 2016 - 2018; buying some new land and repurposing a section of old crops to grow these plants. The idea was to create a high yield high quality coffee that gets them into a lower price point; but what they found is that this coffee comes out brilliantly every year. This particular lot from their Obata crop is their top scoring day-lot and was excellently processed on the patios outside the main house at Hacienda Sonora. 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.