LUDVIK IN COSTA RICA 2025

Our head roaster, Ludvik spent the first week of March in Costa Rica visiting many of our friends and making some new ones! 

He was well received by our friends at Exclusive Coffees in San Jose where he started his trip. He was given tour of their new facilities and cupped coffee from our friend Jaime Cardenas. After that they left for West Valley to visit Jaime at his micro-mill Sin Limites. They hopped on the tractor with Jaime and joined him out in the farm to pick up the workers and that days harvest. Costa Rica has had a period of rain in the wrong time of year, which has delayed the harvest this year. This means many of the places Ludvik visited were still in the middle or just beginning to harvest cherries! 

Day 2 they traveled early to Tarrazu to visit our friends at Granitos de Alturo and Los Cuarteles. He was able to meet and spend some time with Joyce, Omar and Johanna at Granitos de Altura and hear a bit about how this year's harvest is going. He then stayed the night at Los Cuarteles and was also able to join Mario and his son Jose Mario out in the farm to pick up the coffee that had just been harvested. The next morning they continued on to Chirripó to visit Corazon de Jesus, which is run by father and son duo Jhonny and Jhonny. Finally, on the last day they cupped through all of the samples they had picked up along the way.

 

Thank you to our friends at Exclusive Coffees for hosting us and showing Fuglen such kind hospitality and of course thank you to all of our friends we were able to see in Costa Rica! Pura Vida 🇨🇷