Costa Rica has built and incredible reputation for specialty coffee over the last decade or so becoming infamous for its micro lot production. It is also quickly becoming an amazing leader on environmental issues too.

Traditionally, coffee from Costa Rica was bulked and sold – however the higher production costs made it impossible for the country to compete with neighbouring Nicaragua. Specialty coffee production has therefore become the focus and, in many ways, no one does it better!

The Sanchez family are third generation coffee producers and are well known in the region of San Marcos where the seven siblings have farms as well as a joint partnership with the La Candelilla mill – the company responsible for attentively processing the cherry collected from these farms and the surrounding areas. The establishment of the mill came about to bring more control to the post-harvest processing and you can really taste the results of this in the cup.