El Desafio 2023
The Return of a Classic
This month, our Explorer subscribers can look forward to an exclusive sample of the new harvest of El Desafio. It is everything this classic has always been – yet a little different.
It is creamy, sweet and has lots of fruity notes. A new harvest is always exciting and this time is no exception.
The Family Farm
Café Rivense is located in this beautiful location in Costa Rica. The farm was founded back in the 1940s and is today run as a real family business by Ricardo, his father Régulo, his mother Isabelle and his brothers Mario, Luis and Esteban.
They have supplied coffee to our selection for several years – including La Catarata and El Cristobal – and the family's production covers several different carefully selected varieties and processes.
Processing
A Natural Coffee
El Desafio is a natural coffee, which means that the entire coffee berry is dried with the coffee bean inside. This type of processing is good for getting a high degree of natural sweetness and fruitiness from the berry to the coffee.
El Desafio comes with some flavour notes that may often be assumed to be a bit different from traditional coffee, but are absolutely wonderful.
Specifications
Country: Costa Rica
Region: Chirripõ
Variety: Villa Sarchi
Washing station: Cafe Rivense del Chirrpó
Process: Natural
Altitude: 1550 masl
Harvest: April 2023
Notes: Sweet and creamy with notes of strawberry, peach and papaya
Flavour Notes
Irresistible is probably a good description of El Desafio. It is a unique coffee but also one of our most popular coffees.
The new harvest offers the same sweetness and creamy coffee experience, but now with notes of strawberry, peach and papaya.
Our Purchase
We have paid the cooperative $9.09/kg for the coffee (FOB).
The market price at the time of the contract was $4.08/kg
In this case, we have therefore paid 123% above the market price for the coffee.
Read more about why we pay more for our coffee here.
