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Green coffee beans – La Esmeralda Honey

Café La Cumbre is a family-owned company with roots dating back over 90 years. 

Generation after generation, production grew, and in 2014, Minor Jiménez Abarca (third generation) and his wife Nancy Gaitán Cruz gave it the name Café La Cumbre.​

Minor is an agricultural engineer with a huge interest in innovation and sustainability. He focuses on cultivating varieties that develop their maximum genetic expression, with very healthy and nutritionally balanced crops. Combined with innovative drying processes, they consistently obtain coffee with cupping scores exceeding SCA 85 every year. ​

Café La Cumbre is recognized with the ‘Bandera Azul’ Certification which is given by the Ministry of Agriculture to those farms and mills producing under economic, social and environmental responsibility.​

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Price range: € 8,49 through € 209,40 excl. BTW

Additional information

Batch SizeOne bag of 375 gram green coffee beans is +/- 45 cups of coffee
ProducerCafé La Cumbre
OriginCosta Rica Tarrazú, San Marcos
Altitude1650 metres above sea level
VarietyCaturra, Catuai
ProcessSemi-washed Red Honey
GradeAAA+ with preparation SHB EP * 
SCA Score86+  excellent specialty coffee **
Taste profileCoffee with notes of peach, nectarine, dried fruit, caramel base, sugar cane, dark chocolate, honey-like acidity, balanced and structured.

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  • AAA+: Premium coffee beans, extra-bold, with no defects, all larger than 6.65 mm.
  • SHB+: Beans grown at high altitudes, resulting in denser, sweeter beans.
  • EP: Beans are hand-sorted to remove defects and foreign matter.
**Specialty coffee is the highest quality, scoring 80 or more points on the 100-point Coffee Review scale. Coffee scoring between 85 and 89.99 points is considered “Excellent.”
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The farm

Cafe La Cumbre’  is located in the ‘Tarrazú’ region and more specifically San Marcos. This region is recognized for high altitudes and quality coffee. 

Region: San Marcos, Tarrazú

Altitude: 1650 meters above sea level

Main variety: Caturra-Catuai

Process: semi-washed, honey

Flavor profile: Very well-balanced with a medium body and bright acidity. Flavor attributes are complex and range from tropical fruit, nuts and dark chocolate to citrus fruit.

Impact by innovation

In 2022, the Jiménez Valverdema family made an investment to increase production capacity and gain control over the entire process. They expanded the drying space with patios and beds, constructed a building for the installation of a dryer and a roaster, both of which feature high-tech environmentally friendly and efficient technology. They also built a dry mill to perform quality control, finally ensuring control over the entire production process, guaranteeing traceability, origin, and quality. By partnering with Grounds they can now enjoy direct connection with roasters in Europe. Want to know why we make this product and what drives us? Read our story.