NOMAD - Entre Rios {Espresso} | Costa Rica - Washed - Marseillaise and Obatá

NOMAD Coffee Roasters is located in Barcelona, Spain

From NOMAD

Every year, we eagerly await the arrival of coffees from Aquiares, Costa Rica. And this is our flagship blend, Entre Ríos. In this cup, we enjoy a very full-bodied, balanced, and smooth flavor. It’s aromatic, with notes of orange and dates. It’s sweet, with hints of chocolate and caramel, and has a long, slightly fruity cherry aftertaste.

Washed: First, floating cherries and unripe fruit are removed. The highest-quality, heaviest cherries are pulped using a “Penagos DCV 306.” The mucilage is mechanically removed using a “Penagos delva” before the cherries are transferred to tanks for partial fermentation (6 hours). Pre-drying is performed in a “Centriflux” machine before the cherries are sent to the drying area.

Mechanical drying: 32 hours of drying in a “Guardiola” dryer, at a temperature range of 45º–55ºC. Two 2-hour breaks during the day ensure slow and uniform drying of all beans.
The beans are stored in parchment for a minimum of two months before processing and are packed in 69-kg GrainPro bags inside jute sacks.

Aquiares is owned by Diego Robelo and his family. Situated on the slopes of the Turrialba volcano at 1,400 MASL, it is the largest single-block coffee plantation in Costa Rica. The land is crisscrossed by various waterways that connect the two major rivers surrounding the farm, the Turrialba and the Aquiares. It is a majestic natural setting that was home to a small pre-Columbian community hundreds of years ago, and traces of that community can still be found today. This is the ninth consecutive year we have worked together, and the eighth in which we have done business directly.