Aquiares Tasting Flight

Three coffees. One estate. Three distinct expressions.

This limited tasting flight brings together three coffees from Aquiares Estate, a historic farm on the slopes of Costa Rica’s Turrialba volcano known for its commitment to specialty coffee, biodiversity and innovative processing.

Each flight includes three 100 g bags: Centroamericano, Juanilama and Mariana, offering a rare opportunity to explore how variety and processing shape coffees grown on the same estate.

Centroamericano is our starting point: the Centroamericano variety processed using a traditional washed method for a clean, balanced expression with notes of brown sugar, cacao nibs, caramel, chocolate and bright citrus.

Juanilama uses the same Centroamericano variety and follows the same washed process, with one fascinating change. During fermentation, Aquiares adds a distillate produced from Juanilama, or lemon balm, grown on the estate. The resulting co-ferment remains remarkably clean and precise, with notes of sweet apple, caramel, green grape and lemon.

Mariana takes us in another direction entirely. A different variety processed as an anaerobic natural, it shows the more fruit-forward side of Aquiares’ experimentation, with notes of tropical fruit, blackberry, red grape and juicy citrus.

Taste Centroamericano and Juanilama side by side to see what one carefully controlled change in fermentation can do. Then finish with Mariana for a dramatically different expression of the same farm.

3 × 100g Limited Release