don jose micromill, san juanillo farm, naranjo, costa rica

Sixtolman Sanchez produced this coffee from his family’s farm in the beautiful microregion of Naranjo, West Valley of Costa Rica. This season was the first year he has attempted to process his own coffee after harvesting. Instead of selling the coffee cherries to the local market he built a small pulping facility, designed by his daughter and her cousin who are both architects. The family are undoubtedly innovators; they created a storage facility for their parchment coffee; constructed from a specialized space-age reflective coated surface that controls heat; and they installed dehumidifiers to stabilize the moisture within the warehouse. Their attention to detail enabled them to produce this high scoring “exclusive reserve” coffee in this first year of processing.