Melico Los Pinos
Grown in Tarrazu, Costa Rica
Complex. Deep. Fall-ish, or maybe memories of spring. Light, raw honey lifted by crisp, bright berries (raspberry, bing) acidity with hints of lemon on the main floor. Then, jasmine and sweet floral aromatics dance on the roof. Overall, light-bodied, but deeply layered.
$ 18.75
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GROWER: Hacienda La Minita
REGION: Tarrazu, Costa Rica
ALTITUDE: 1600 MASL
VARIETY: Cattura
PROCESSING: Fully washed. 20 hr. fermentation; sun-dried on raised beds
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Heritage + meticulous everything
The famed Hacienda La Minita is one of the farms that first you learn when starting in coffee. For decades, they have be at the forefront, developing and improving their equipment and methods to produce some of the world’s most memorable coffees. Every step of the process is intensely cared about and tightly controlled, from variety selection, planting, harvesting ripe cherries, extensive sorting at almost every stage, to meticulous drying and more. This is possible largely because they have the desire to, but also because everything happens right on the farm and under their action. It’s an amazing program and they are still innovating, boasting the most technically advanced mill anywhere in the world.
Melico Los Pinos is a plot separated from Hacienda La Minita’s main farm, located directly across the Tarrazu River near their mill, Beneficio Rio Tarrazu. It was actually a separated lot long before their microlot program (Beneficio Rio Tarrazu microlots) began because it was noticed in a daily cupping. The cattura growing there is brighter with a cleaner complexity and vibrancy than the plots across the river and still stand out on it own.
Heritage + meticulous everything
The famed Hacienda La Minita is one of the farms that first you learn when starting in coffee. For decades, they have be at the forefront, developing and improving their equipment and methods to produce some of the world’s most memorable coffees. Every step of the process is intensely cared about and tightly controlled, from variety selection, planting, harvesting ripe cherries, extensive sorting at almost every stage, to meticulous drying and more. This is possible largely because they have the desire to, but also because everything happens right on the farm and under their action. It’s an amazing program and they are still innovating, boasting the most technically advanced mill anywhere in the world.
Melico Los Pinos is a plot separated from Hacienda La Minita’s main farm, located directly across the Tarrazu River near their mill, Beneficio Rio Tarrazu. It was actually a separated lot long before their microlot program (Beneficio Rio Tarrazu microlots) began because it was noticed in a daily cupping. The cattura growing there is brighter with a cleaner complexity and vibrancy than the plots across the river and still stand out on it own.
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