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Costa Rica Tarrazu Don Mayo Processing Plant El Llano Estate Yellow Honey Processing

English Name

Tarrazu El Llano Y-Honey

Country

Costa Rica

Region

Tarrazu

Grade

SHB

Producer

Don Mayo Processing Plant

Processing Method

Yellow Honey Processing

Variety

Caturra

Altitude

1500-1950 meters

Flavor Description:

Complexity layers, pear sweetness, preserved fruit, chocolate and caramel, rounded acidity, smooth and dense texture.

Harvest Period

December to March of the following year

Introduction

Since the first coffee seed took root in Costa Rica, more than two centuries have passed. Beans from Costa Rica possess unparalleled charm—rich, bright acidity and pure, clean texture, captivating connoisseurs' love for two hundred years.

The excellence of Costa Rican coffee stems from its unique geographical conditions: it lies in the Central American isthmus, simultaneously regulated by the Pacific and Atlantic ocean currents and sea breezes on its climate; coupled with many towering volcanoes within its territory reaching altitudes of 2000 meters, allowing coffee berries to grow slowly in the most fertile volcanic ash soil and high-altitude cool environment, nurturing coffee beans with complete and rich flavors.

Most importantly, the coffee estates' rigorous tradition regarding harvesting and washed processing procedures. Originally cultivated on the slopes of Poas and Barva volcanoes, today known as the Central Valley region, the main seven coffee-producing areas are distributed from northwest to southeast, following the inland central plateau.

The fertile volcanic ash of Costa Rica's volcanic terrain, mild and suitable temperatures, and stable, abundant rainfall are all factors contributing to coffee becoming one of Costa Rica's main agricultural products. The seven major producing regions are: Tarrazu, Tres Rios, Orosi, Central Valley, West Valley, Turrialba, and Brunca.

Honey Processing

Costa Rica has a long history of coffee cultivation, but in recent years, this tradition is no longer the sole leader—the more innovative honey processing method has become a trend.

The honey processing method abandons the traditional washed processing method of soaking raw beans in large water tanks (allowing the pulp to ferment and decompose by microorganisms in water) before washing, instead using modern pulp scrapers to remove part of the pulp and then directly exposing them to sunlight.

Such methods not only prevent the contents of raw beans from being lost to water, allowing them to be completely preserved, but also during the drying period, combined with the gradual drying and concentration of the pulp and the action of microorganisms resistant to high sugar environments (such as natural yeast), give the raw beans a rich, complex sweet aroma.

Thus, this "honey-processed coffee" with low acidity, full body, high complexity, and rich sweet aroma has become the target of competition in the coffee world in recent years.

Don Mayo Processing Plant

Aiming to become a leader in Costa Rican coffee, Don Mayo Processing Plant, although with 15 years of history, is actually a young processing plant. The family cooperative was established in 1994, but it wasn't until 2005 that they established their own processing plant.

The processing plant is located in Tarrazu—about five kilometers north of the town of San Marcos, shouldering the responsibility of researching processing techniques and executing post-harvest processing for ten affiliated coffee estates; as these estates are distributed on slopes at altitudes of 1500-1950 meters, all coffee produced by Don Mayo is of SHB grade.

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