spilling the beans
origin and roast profiles
Aquiares Entre Rios - Costa Rica
Delight your palate with its familiar flavor profile, featuring rich orange, caramel, cherry, and cacao notes.
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Roasted to Full City +, on the darker side of medium, allowing for a bodied brew without compromising on flavour.
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Try this roast at home using our grounds or beans, or try in store as a filter coffee and espresso
bean and farm details
Farm: Aquiares Estate
Varietals: Obata and Marsellesa
Processing: Washed
Altitude: 1,100 to 1,400 metres above sea level
Town: Aquiares
Region: Turrialba
Country: Costa Rica
Total size of farm: 924 hectares
Area under coffee: 623 hectares
Harvest periods: November-February
Flavour profile: orange-like aroma, dark caramel, cacao, orange peel, cherry, round body and clean finish.
The estate is the largest continuous coffee farm in Costa Rica, covering 924 hectares, 80% of which is planted under shade-grown Arabica.
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The mix of two varietals Marsellesa & Red Obatá, has made ‘Between Rivers’ a delicate, versatile, and unique coffee. Washed by detaching the pulp & mucilage, then mechanically washed for a partial fermentation, followed by 32 hours drying in the ‘Guardiola’, 45ºC – 55ºC ranges.
impact
Aquiares coffee is hand-picked to ensure high quality, with skilled harvesters earning above-average wages for selecting ripe cherries. Each tree is visited up to seven times during harvest to pick only fully ripe cherries. Freshly picked cherries are processed on-site, producing washed, honey-processed, and natural coffees. After pulping, drying, and then resting in silos for a month, the beans are sorted and prepared for export.
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Workers from Aquiares and nearby regions benefit from safe living conditions, on-site housing, childcare, and bi-weekly health check-ups. The farm also offers physical therapy and daily warm-up routines for workers.
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Aquiares is a leader in environmental sustainability, recognizing the link between agricultural, environmental, and social health. The farm enhances soil quality through natural methods, such as leaving organic matter from pruning and diverse shade trees to nourish soil microbes. These trees also regulate ground temperature, improving coffee quality.
Aquiares aims for synergies where environmental health supports coffee plant health, ensuring long-term high-quality coffee production. With varied terrain and microclimates, the farm focuses on the individual needs of each coffee plant through independent pruning. Additionally, Aquiares has rehabilitated over 400,000 coffee trees, which helped resist disease during the 2012 rust attack.
Aquiares are Rainforest Alliance Certified, Carbon Neutral and home to studies by World Coffee Research