Las Lajas, Costa Rica

Highlights

“Perla Negra is one of the signature micro lots from the Chacón family at Finca Las Lajas in Sabanilla, Alajuela, grown between 1,500 and 1,700 masl with Caturra and Catuai. Ripe cherries dry whole on the patio and are turned only twice a day, a slow 22-30 day dehydration. Since the late 1980s the family has rebuilt the farm around conservation and stable employment, shading the coffee with nitrogen-fixing legumes alongside bananas, plantains and oranges.”