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Farm Details
Lot#: 23 Marcela Núñez Rojas, Alessia Mena Castro - Finca Santa Lucia
SANTA LUCIA SANTA LUCIA
SANTA LUCIA

This is a farm seeded with the traditional coffee varieties as the Arabic hybrids (Borbón) and a part of the Caturra variety. This little farm has many kinds of fruit trees: oranges, sweet lemon, bananas, apples, guava, tangerines, also there are some exotic wood trees like: Cedars, Sota Horse, Laurel and Eucalyptus and some spices like: achiote. On this farm the coffee was worked 100% Honey (dried to the sun with the totality of its honeys), also is has received a small coffee quantity from Don Marcelo Nuñez’s farm, which is located in the Quebradas district, in order to fit the minimum required by Cup of the Excellence. For the three harvests that the Mena Castro Family has been working on this farm, they has hired only women, who are part of the mothers of the community which attend the Teachers Mother’s Garden, in order not to benefit them with the work but with the payment for their work. Only ripe cherries are collected, which help those women to get a better payment.

Property Characteristics: Coffee Characteristics:
Farm: Finca Santa Lucia
Farmer: Marcela Núñez Rojas, Alessia Mena Castro
Rank: 23
City: Quebradas, Palmares
Region: Alajuela
Country: Costa Rica
Farm Size: Not Available
Coffee growing area: Not Available
Altitude: 1150 masl
Certification: None
Variety: Hybrid
Processing System: Conventional, descascado
Lot Size: 15 bags
Pounds: Not Available
International Jury Score: 85.14
Cupping Number #: 162
Price: 4.05 USD
Winning Bidder: MOKKA SPECIALITY COFFEE
Top Jury Descriptions: great balance (10), fruits, citrus (5), dark chocolate (2), crisp acidity (3), sweet cherry (3), lingering fruit aftertaste (1), full body (3), extremely clarity (2), complex (2), viscous (2), sweet (2)

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