Hacienda Colima
Vallée Centrale, Heredia, Costa Rica
100 years of tradition
In the mid-19th-century two pioneering families originally from Europe set up a coffee business: the Spanish Castro-Jimenez family in Costa Rica and the German Kahle family in the Chiapas (Mexico). Alejo belongs to the 5th generation of the Castro-Kahle family, which has been growing coffee for more than 100 years and conserved 200 hectares of forest located above their coffee fields in order to preserve the biodiversity.
at the cutting edge, every year, for 5 generations
on the Brava’s volcano slopes
Finca Colima is owned by Alejo and is located at the edges of the Brava Volcano. He introduced SL28 variety in 2012. With it, Alejo Castro, won 4th place in the Cup of Excellence in 2020. For this producer the work must be carried out with the utmost care and he aim to naturally develop the strengths of each coffee.
This coffee is fermented, in cherries, in tanks in which the oxygen is replaced by CO2. After 5 days coffee is placed on raised beds and blended daily (coffee is then covered to retain max heat until the following morning).
Costa Rica – Vallée Centrale, Heredia
Some data
- Botanical variety: SL28
- Processing: Anaerobic fermentation
- Harvest: December – March
- Drying: on raised beds
- Altitude: 1.500 m asl
