Costa Rica San Jose Coffee

Name: Costa Rica San Jose Coffee
Brand: HR Higgins Ltd
Availability: InStock

lychee · pear · sweet · honey

Fruity Caramel and sweetFor filter

£60.95/kg

34% above similar on their 250 g bag

£60.95 for 1 kg, their cheapest per kilo · about £1.10 for an 18 g espresso dose

The badge compares the standard 250 g bag at £63.00/kg against 24 coffees from 12 roasters in honey 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.

Delivery cost not stated by the roaster

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Bag	Price	Per kilo
250 g	£15.75	£63.00/kg
1 kg	£60.95	£60.95/kg

The 1 kg bag works out 3% 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.

HR Higgins Ltd describe this coffee as fruity, caramel and sweet. 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

Region

Tarrazu

Process

honey

Not stated

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

Carbon neutral

“This coffee is grown by farmers from the Coopedota cooperative Hermosa who are renowned for producing award-winning coffee and are in fact recognised as the first carbon neutral coffee producer in the world.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Flavour families

“This is a truly unique coffee with delicate fruity notes of lychee and pear and a sweet, honey finish.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Country of origin

“The Speciality Association of Costa Rica control all coffee distribution from the country.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Region

“Their farms are found in the Dota region of the Tarrazu river valley, where the soil is rich in nutrients.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Processing

“Costa Rica San Jose is prepared by the Honey Process producing a coffee with natural sweetness.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Tasting notes

“This is a truly unique coffee with delicate fruity notes of lychee and pear and a sweet, honey finish.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

A further 1 fact on this page was read from part of the shop page that holds no sentence — a menu or a product grid — so there is nothing to quote for it.

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.