Coffees The Orkney Roastery

Costa Rica

The Orkney Roastery · Orkney Islands

Aria Festoso 250g or 750g

dark chocolate · caramel · clementine

£34.00/kg

23% below similar on their 250 g bag

£25.50 for 750 g, their cheapest per kilo · about £0.61 for an 18 g espresso dose

The badge compares the standard 250 g bag at £36.00/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 4 Nov 2026. This is the bag, not the basket: delivery is not included.

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BagPricePer kilo
250 g£9.00£36.00/kg
750 g£25.50£34.00/kg

The 750 g 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.

The Orkney Roastery describe this coffee as caramel and sweet, chocolate, citrus. 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.

Every family the roaster names is a common one for coffee from Costa Rica, so this reads as a typical example rather than an outlier.

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
Process
washed, natural, honey
Not stated
region, farm or estate, 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

Species

“Festoso is a hand-crafted, rare speciality Costa Rican Arabica SHB honey processed coffee from the Palmichal micro-mill.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Flavour families

We are watching, listening to and timing this particular coffee as it roasts so that it delivers its dark chocolate and caramel qualities with a fresh clementine fruit finish… part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Country of origin

“We are delighted to offer this rare speciality coffee (with a SCA score of 84) from Costa Rica.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Processing

“Honey processing is somewhere in the middle of the washed process and the natural process.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Cup score

“We are delighted to offer this rare speciality coffee (with a SCA score of 84) from Costa Rica.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Tasting notes

We are watching, listening to and timing this particular coffee as it roasts so that it delivers its dark chocolate and caramel qualities with a fresh clementine fruit finish… 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.

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