High in the mountains of Costa Rica, on the slopes of Poás Volcano and Barva Volcano, Café Rosa Blanca cultivates their shade-grown, high-altitude organic coffee on 30 acres of rich soil growing these Arabica varietals including Geisha, Caturra and Obatá. At Café Rosa Blanca, we have developed a high-quality blend of these varietals and have painstakingly nurtured them to bring you the delicious aromas and flavors of a superb single origin coffee.
Our Costa Rica organic coffee plantation is dedicated to sustainable practices, organic agriculture, and honoring three centuries of Costa Rican coffee heritage. Café Rosa Blanca is a certified organic coffee plantation: we employ effective, natural methods to help our organic coffee flourish. We have planted thousands of indigenous trees throughout our coffee plantation and these trees produce both beneficial shade and nitrogen for our organic coffee, while simultaneously establishing biological corridors for our birds and other native wildlife.
When stored in the right environment dried green coffee (which we call “Grano de Oro”) can last for a year and often more. Our beans are of high quality and been cultivated to enhance the flavors with their finest attributes coming to fruition during the roasting process. One of the biggest challenges for the roaster is to find a perfect symbiosis between sweetness, aroma, acidity, balance and all the other subtle attributes of the beans. One of the most important people of our coffee production process is our foreman (”Capataz”) and professional roaster, Carlos Sanchez. After sampling and testing the beans, he maps out the roasting process through manipulation of the temperature, the injection of air and precise timing for the duration of the roast. Carlos is a coffee cartographer- he maps out the process in the roaster to find the best coffee quality to bring out its best flavor.
At Café Rosa Blanca, we offer you three different kinds of roasts that work well with our unique Heredia Highland coffees: chocolatey, sweet and subtle with delicious floral aromas and tastes.
