Costa Rica El Cedral Dota

This crop may be the best we've tasted from Costa Rica. It's loaded with tropical fruit, led by pineapple and banana, with a gentle cinnamon warmth underneath. The coffee grows on Finca El Cedral, perched between 1,900 and 2,050 meters in Costa Rica's Dota valley, and is farmed through CoopeDota. Founded in 1960, the cooperative operates a certified carbon neutral mill powered by hydroelectricity, and El Cedral serves as its model farm, a place where members trial climate adaptive growing methods and share the successful ones with the wider membership. This lot is Red Catuai and Red Caturra, harvested in January and February, then dried whole in the sun before being finished in mechanical driers. That full natural process is what gives the cup all its fruit.