EL Diamante Esperanza

Another very interesting El Diamante lot from Esteban’s Café de Altura, who no longer needs an introduction. After many years of working together, competing with his coffee, and visiting each other to learn more about collaboration, we’ve come to deeply appreciate Esteban’s commitment.

His company supports and buys from more than 3,000 local small-scale farmers, processing and exporting the coffee himself. He provides these farmers with support where needed and ensures procurement. This coffee undergoes ‘El Diamante fermentation,’ like most of his lots. It is fermented in airtight tanks and then naturally dried on raised African beds. Thanks to this process and the characteristics of the Esperanza variety, this coffee reminds us of biting into a sugary cinnamon pastry.

F1 hybrid varieties are still relatively new in coffee agriculture; only a handful have become commercially available to farmers in the last 15 years and only in select countries. Costa Rica is one of them, and local farmers have been requesting this variety enthusiastically! Esperanza is now one of the most demanded F1 hybrids in the country due to its excellent adaptation to humid environments, resistance to diseases and infections, and high yield potential.