Costa Rica,Tarrazú, Cafe Vida
We Taste: Cashew Butter, German chocolate, vanilla, nougat.
Origin: Costa Rica
Region: Tarrazú
Farm/Washing Station/Mill: CoopeTarrazú
Variety: Common Costa Rican Varieties including Caturra, Catuai, Bourbon, Villa Sarchi, Villalobos, Sarchimor, Venecia, and Costa Rica 95.
Altitude: 1200 -1900 Masl
Process Method: Washed
Roast level: Sweet Spot
Roasting Notes: Coming soon...
Coffee Info/story: Cafe Vida is a signature Cafe Imports coffee, capturing the classic characteristics of a Washed Costa Rican coffee: sweetness and soft acidity, toasted nuts and balance. These lots are suitable for both blending and as an accessible single-origin offering.
Our Costa Rican office in the capital city of San José: Oxcart Coffee – Cafe Imports Latin America, a full-service import-export operation that allows us to work directly with growers, build better connections and keep a closer eye on the quality and logistics of all coffee shipments leaving Costa Rica bound for Cafe Imports’ sales offices around the globe.
"Oxcart is a Costa Rican export company, but Cafe Imports is a worldwide company,” Luis says. “The idea is to be able to share all that knowledge and experience of all of our years with everybody—bringing coffee people and producers to the Oxcart office to create and be more part of the community. The coffee community is growing in Costa Rica and I want to be part of it.” These days, Luis, Adriana, and the rest of the Oxcart teamwork with over fifteen micromills, all of which they have worked with for more than five years as our relationships in Costa Rica began long before the inception of Oxcart.
Through our work at Oxcart, our aim is to continue to work with the same micromills year after year to focus on building quality with our longstanding partners. The Oxcart Coffee office is not simply a place to do the business of selling coffee, but also a resource for local producers. By hosting open cuppings at our onsite roasting lab, offering opportunities for consultation and education, and creating a space for candid conversations about coffee, quality, and production, we hope to continue to establish Oxcart as a place where our producer partners can grow and prosper with us.- Cafe Imports