The Growing Story of Costa Rican Specialty Coffee Beans from the Santa Maria Tarrazú Region: Dota Cooperative

FrontStreet Coffee · Costa Rica Santa Maria Tarrazú: Growing Story and the Flavor and Environment of the Dota Cooperative

FrontStreet Coffee · Costa Rica Tarrazú Dota Cooperative Santa Maria

Flavor Description:

On the first sip, the cup opens with citrus, lime, grapefruit, and plum.

The mid-palate carries pomelo and green tea aromatics.

The finish brings roasted nuts and caramel, with a full, solid body and bright acidity.

Costa Rica's Coffee Growing Regions

Costa Rica's seven main coffee-growing regions stretch from northwest to southeast along the inland central highlands.

The country's volcanic terrain provides fertile volcanic ash, moderate and suitable temperatures, and stable, abundant rainfall — all factors that made coffee one of Costa Rica's main agricultural products.

Costa Rica's coffee industry began developing in the mid-18th century, making it the first country in Central America to cultivate coffee, and giving it a long history. As a result, its system from production to sales is well established.

In both quality and quantity, Costa Rican coffee has consistently earned worldwide recognition and has been judged world-class, high-quality coffee.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

Costa Rican coffee is prized for its balance and cleanliness, and if that is what you enjoy, FrontStreet Brazil Queen Estate makes an excellent everyday companion. Grown in Brazil, the world's largest coffee producer, it is the distinctive yellow Bourbon variety with a fresh, sweet profile. After a medium roast it shows cream peanut, chocolate, toasted bread and sugarcane aromas and sweetness, and it works well as pour-over, in a moka pot, or on an espresso machine.

For a sweeter medium roast with a fruit-forward character, FrontStreet Strawberry Candy is a favorite. What sets it apart is that it combines two well-known regions of Central and South America — a Costa Rica honey-process coffee and a Panama washed Gesha. To highlight the best of both, FrontStreet roasts it medium, so it shows orange-blossom honey sweetness and a rounded, mellow sweetness, and it suits cold brew, pour-over, and espresso alike.

If you want a Chinese specialty coffee that represents Yunnan, FrontStreet's 2013 sun-dried Typica keeps the classic Yunnan small-bean character; a medium roast brings out its balanced, gentle profile with soft notes of nuts, brown sugar, black tea and dried apricot, and it works for pour-over, cold brew, and drip machines at very good value. And for the benchmark of balance, FrontStreet Jamaica Blue Mountain No.1 is also given a medium roast, fusing its distinctive acidity, bitterness, sweetness and body into a strong, elegant aroma of chocolate, roasted nuts, cream and caramel.