### Coffee Profile This coffee delivers a rich and comforting flavour experience, with indulgent dark chocolate notes balanced by fresh blackberries and a hint of sweet cherry. Its velvety body and lingering sweetness create a well-rounded and satisfying cup, perfect for those who enjoy a classic, indulgent profile. | TASTES LIKE | | :---------- | | Blackberries, cherry and dark chocolate | | ROAST | | :---- | | Milk-based | ### Story Corazón de Jesús is a family run micromill and collection of farms in Costa Rica’s Brunca region, led by producer Jhon “Jhonny” Alvarado Abarca and the Alvarado Fonseca family. The project began in 2015, when the family built their own mill in Pérez Zeledón with a minimal budget but a clear ambition: to produce high quality, fully traceable coffees from their own land rather than delivering cherries to larger mills. Since then, they have expanded to manage several farms including El Salitre, Los Toños, Vista Paraíso, La Cusuka and La Torre, totalling roughly 16 hectares of coffee planted with both traditional and high value varieties. Among them, Finca La Torre stands out as a small, high elevation experimental site of around two hectares, situated between 1,900 and 1,950 metres at the divide between División de Páramo and La Piedra de Rivas. It was also one of the first farms in the Brunca region to plant Gesha. The family continues to pursue an ambitious quality driven strategy focused on variety selection and advanced processing. Their dedication has earned repeated recognition in the Costa Rica Cup of Excellence, including multiple top ten finishes and a sweep of first place awards in the washed and honey or natural categories in 2025. ### Brew Guide **NOTE THESE ARE A STARTING POINT AND INDICATE A RANGE TO WORK WITHIN** | Age Best Used | | :------------ | | 18-30 days after roast | | Brew Parameters | | :-------------- | | Dose 20.7g in the portafilter to extract 37g in the cups in 26 seconds at 93.5 degrees and add 115g milk weight per single espresso | | Best Freeze Date | | :--------------- | | 24-28 days after roast | ### Origin **Brunca, Costa Rica** The Corazón de Jesús and La Torre farms are located in the Brunca coffee region, in the highlands surrounding Pérez Zeledón and Chirripó in southern Costa Rica. Brunca was one of the later regions in the country to be planted extensively with coffee, with most expansion taking place from the mid twentieth century as new infrastructure, including the Pan American Highway, improved access. As the suitability of the region’s volcanic soils and cool valleys became better understood, planting accelerated rapidly. Historical records show that between 1955 and 1984 Brunca saw the largest increase in planted coffee area in the country and one of the strongest rises in overall production, driven largely by smallholders who settled in the valleys between Cerro de la Muerte and Cerro Chirripó and shifted from other crops to coffee. In recent decades, microregions such as Chirripó have moved from producing mostly bulk coffees to investing in small mills and farm level processing designed for the specialty market. This shift has been supported by high elevations from about 1300 to more than 2000 metres, fertile volcanic soils and a fresh, humid mountain climate that encourages slow, even cherry development.