Wild Bat, Costa Rica Coffee

cherries · floral

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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.

Sea Island Coffee describe this coffee as fruity, floral. 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.

floral is unusual here — 10% 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, Panama

Farm or estate

Coffea Diversa's

Process

natural

Not stated

region, producer, variety, altitude, 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

Farm

“Due to climate change, the bats left the forest surrounding Coffea Diversa's farm.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Flavour families

Combined with the discriminating selection of only the ripest coffee cherries by the bats, this makes for an unusual cup of specialty coffee - remarkably fruity and floral with a delicate acidity… part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Country of origin

“The Artibeus jamaicensis is the bat species found in the forests surrounding the Coffea Diversa Estate in Biolley, Southern Costa Rica on the border of Panama.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Processing

“Instead, the bat breaks the skin of the ripe cherry with its teeth, feeds on the pulp, and licks the sugar-rich mucilage - initiating a uniquely natural processing method.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Tasting notes

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.