Costa Rica Finca El Refugio

Name: Costa Rica Finca El Refugio
Brand: Steampunk Coffee
Availability: InStock

strawberry · plum · grape · honey · tea

Fruity Caramel and sweet Tea-like

£60.00/kg

37% above similar on their 250 g bag

£60.00 for 1 kg, their cheapest per kilo · about £1.08 for an 18 g espresso dose

The badge compares the standard 250 g bag at £64.00/kg against 64 coffees from 41 roasters in washed from Costa Rica (standard bag, 200–350 g), so that every coffee is compared on the same size.

Price observed 3 Nov 2026. This is the bag, not the basket: delivery is not included.

Steampunk Coffee states free delivery over £25.00, which this bag reaches on its own. their delivery page (opens in a new tab)

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Bag	Price	Per kilo
250 g	£16.00	£64.00/kg
1 kg	£60.00	£60.00/kg

The 1 kg bag works out 6% cheaper per kilo than the 250 g.

How it sits among coffee from Costa Rica

How often roasters use each flavour family to describe coffee from Costa Rica: 258 of 395 carry notes. The dashed outline is the whole catalogue. These are the roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement.

Steampunk Coffee describe this coffee as fruity, caramel and sweet, tea-like. The filled shape is how often roasters use each family across coffee from Costa Rica; the rings on the rim are this coffee’s own.

tea-like is unusual here — 3% of coffee from Costa Rica are described that way.

The roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement. We have not tasted this coffee. All Costa Rica coffees

What the roaster says about where it came from

Country

Costa Rica

Region

Central Valley

Process

washed, natural

Variety

Caturra, Bourbon, Pacas

Altitude

1200 m

Not stated

farm or estate, producer, harvest, lot, importer, price paid to the producer

We report what the roaster publishes and we have not checked any of it independently. A fact nobody publishes is not a fault of the coffee: almost no roaster in the UK states an importer or the price paid to the producer.

Where each fact came from

Altitude, lowest

“Altitude: 1200 m.a.s.l. Variety: Villa Sarchi Processing: Natural UK Arrival: July 2026 Tasting Notes: Complex and fruity, with layers of wild strawberry, plum and black grape.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Organic certification

“Organic fertilizers made from coffee pulp help keep the soil fertile and no herbicides are used at all in order to promote greater plant diversity.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Variety

“Like Caturra and Pacas, Villa Sarchi is a natural mutation of Bourbon caused by a single-gene mutation known as “Dwarf/Compactism,” which results in a smaller, more compact plant.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Flavour families

Tasting Notes: Complex and fruity, with layers of wild strawberry, plum and black grape… part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Country of origin

“First discovered in Costa Rica in the 1950/60s in the province of Alajuela near the town of Sarchi, the variety has since undergone careful pedigree selection to improve quality and consistency.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Region

“Region: Heredia, Central Valley Altitude: 1200 m.a.s.l.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Processing

“This lot was processed as a natural and its counterpart from La Luisa was finished as a washed, highlighting the spread of flavours Costa Rican cultivar Villa Sarchi can express.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Seasonal

“This fruity and syrupy Villa Sarchi is one half of a pair of Costa Rican coffees we have selected from this season's harvest.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Tasting notes

Tasting Notes: Complex and fruity, with layers of wild strawberry, plum and black grape… part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Taken from the roaster’s own pages, and nothing here has been verified by us or by an independent body. What we store is a passage of page text cut around the fact, so one shown with an ellipsis is a passage we cannot see the start or the end of; only the fully quoted ones are complete sentences.