COSTA RICA - Aquiares Esperanza

Name: COSTA RICA - Aquiares Esperanza
Brand: Microroastery
Availability: InStock

lychee · raspberry up front · tropical

Fruity

£45.00/kg

17% below similar on their 200 g bag

£45.00 for 1 kg, their cheapest per kilo · about £0.81 for an 18 g espresso dose

The badge compares the standard 200 g bag at £47.00/kg against 20 coffees from 14 roasters in natural 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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Bag	Price	Per kilo
200 g	£9.40	£47.00/kg
500 g	£23.50	£47.00/kg
1 kg	£45.00	£45.00/kg

The 1 kg bag works out 4% cheaper per kilo than the 500 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.

Microroastery describe this coffee as fruity. 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

natural

Variety

Sarchimor

Altitude

400 m

Not stated

region, 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

“This lot is grown at 1,200–1,400 metres above sea level and is 100% Esperanza, an F1 hybrid bred by CIRAD, PROMECAFE and CATIE from a cross of T5296 Sarchimor and the Ethiopian variety ET25.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Species

“Owned by Don Alfonso Robelo, it is one of Costa Rica's oldest and largest coffee farms, producing coffee since 1890 across 924 hectares, around 80% of them shade-grown Arabica.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Variety

Flavour families

“Expect juicy lychee and raspberry up front, tropical sweetness in the middle and a clean, lingering finish.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Country of origin

“Lychee, raspberry and a juicy, tropical sweetness: this Costa Rica Aquiares Esperanza is a bright, joyful cup that tastes like summer fruit.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Processing

“Lightly roasted to keep every bit of its character, this natural process single origin is one of the most fruit-forward specialty coffees on our shelves right now.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Roast level

“Nick's light roast protects all of it, letting the lychee and raspberry sing instead of hiding them under roast.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Roasted to order

“Whatever your brewing method, this Costa Rican coffee is freshly roasted to order by Nick in our roastery, just outside Canterbury, in small batches, so it never sits on a shelf.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Tasting notes

“Expect juicy lychee and raspberry up front, tropical sweetness in the middle and a clean, lingering 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.