Costa Rica Sumava de Lourdes Black Moon

This coffee was produced in Costa Rica’s West Valley growing region by our friend Francisco Mena on his farm Sumava de Lourdes. The farm is named after the mountainous Sumava National Park in the Czech Republic, with the name Lourdes referring to the micro-region Lourdes de Naranjo.

The farm is divided into two main sections – Monte Lourdes and Monte Llano Bonito. This coffee hails from a subsection of Monte Lourdes, on a plot dubbed El Kinkajou, which is playfully named after an adorable tropical rainforest mammal sometimes called a “honey bear” that is seen on the farm. This plot was planted with 6,000 coffee trees that are locally known as San Roque. The cultivar is a naturalized variation of the celebrated SL28 variety, which was selected and stabilized in Kenya by Scott Laboratories in the 1930s.

After years of planning and preparation, Sumava was awarded a first-place win in the 2016 Costa Rica Cup of Excellence competition, with more accolades to follow in subsequent years. This past season Sumava received another Cup of Excellence award, this time for a San Roque variety lot from El Kinkajou!

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