PRE-ORDER — roasted to order in small batches. Estimated dispatch within 10–14 business days.
This Caturra and Catuai lot comes from the Las Lajas micro mill, operated by Francisca and Oscar Chacón in Sabanilla de Alajuela. Alma Negra is a specialized natural process created to build a deep, expressive cup through carefully controlled dehydration. Only fully ripe cherries above 22° Brix are selected, then washed, density-sorted and electronically sorted. They are slowly sun-dried in greenhouse patios for 22–30 days and rested for at least 60 days before hulling and final classification.
The expected cup profile, based on the green-coffee QC, is distinctly expressive: pineapple and vanilla with a boozy, funky character, intense aromatics and a syrupy body.
Lot characteristics
- Country: Costa Rica
- Region: Sabanilla de Alajuela, Central Valley
- Producer: Las Lajas / Francisca & Oscar Chacón
- Varieties: Caturra & Catuai
- Process: Alma Negra Natural
- Altitude: 1,250–1,700 m.a.s.l.
- Crop: 2026
- SCA Score: 88
- Green coffee reference: CR2610
- Roast profile: Scandinavian Light Roast
- Expected descriptors: Boozy, Vanilla, Pineapple