Producer: Alejo Khale Castro
Farm: Volcán Azul
Region: Poás Volcano, Alajuela
Altitude: 1,600-1,650 masl | 5,249-5,413 feet
Varietal: San Isidro (Sarchimor)
Process: Natural
Roast: Light
Notes: Strawberry, Roasted Hazelnut, Blackcurrant

Volcán Azul is one of the foremost coffee producers in Costa Rica, with a history reaching back to the 19th century. Today, the Kahle family's focus on quality coffee, careful processing, and ecological conservation sets it apart.

“As the descendants of 19th-century coffee planters Don Alejo C. Jimenez and Don Wilhelm Kahle, we want to enhance the principles of quality inherited from our ancestors by adding the value of conservancy of natural resources, through the acquisition of extensions of natural rainforest for its protection and conservation. These are small actions taken by one family to reduce air contamination and global warming.

“We have been committed to protecting vast extensions of tropical rainforest in Costa Rica since the 1980s. We have come to acquire over 1,500 hectares of rainforest for ecological preservation in areas where we grow our coffee as well as in the Osa Peninsula, a region in the South of Costa Rica known for holding 2.5% of the Earth’s biodiversity. This is the attitude towards the environment that we want to pass on to our children and future generations of our family.”