Natural Costa Rica | Santa Elena | Light

About our Microlot Natural Costa Rica, Santa Elena

Luz Marina Trujillo grew up in a family of coffee producers and talks happily about spending her childhood playing with coffee beans instead of dolls. Now, she produces one of the finest coffees available on her estate Santa Elena in the highlands of Costa Rica’s most famous coffee-growing region, Tarrazú. Luz Marina’s coffee is grown under shade, and the perfectly ripe cherries are hand-picked and sorted for quality at her mill.

Luz Marina takes a holistic approach to sustainability, minimizing synthetic inputs and utilizing a closed-loop fertilizing system that composts discarded coffee pulp using red-wiggler worms. Her water treatment system meets the Costa Rican government’s high environmental standards and preserves the river’s cleanliness that flows through the estate. She offers her seasonal employees outstanding housing, health care, and a state-of-the-art drinking water filtration system.

Tarrazú coffee is known for being crisp and bright, and Luz Marina’s coffee offers that classic profile, a lightly syrupy body, sweetness, and an elegant finish. In recent years Luz Marina has also been producing full natural process coffees and separating lots from subdivisions of the large Santa Elena Estate, making for a dynamic list of offerings from one exciting producer.

Congratulations to Luzma on continuing to elevate quality–she is a true master of her craft!

Altitude: 1,250 - 1,650 masl

Roast: Light

Region: Tarrazú

Process: Natural

Notes: Fruit forward and juicy in nature, sweet, prune, strawberry, pineapple, lemon and lime, juicy body and bright/strawberry-like acidity.

ROASTED IN PORT ANGELES, WA