BBC Languages - Spanish Steps (#)
„Connoisseurs of coffee debate endlessly about which country produces the best beans. Colombian coffee has a well-deserved reputation, rivalled only by that of another Latin American producer Costa Rica, whose beans are praised for el aroma, fragrance, el sabor, flavour, and finally el cuerpo, body.“
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„Costa Rica has set the standards for fine wet-processed coffee for the rest of Central and South America. The most famous coffees by region are Tarrazu, Tres Rios, Herediá, and Alajuela. Most Costa Rican coffee comes from a hybrid called caturra and is characterized as bright and full bodied. Other popular varieties are Mondo Novo and Catuai. The best coffees, which are grown above 3,900 feet, are designated as "strictly hard bean". The "good hard bean" classification is given to coffees grown from 3,300 to 3,900 feet.“
http://www.coffeeresearch.org/coffee/ costarica.htm
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The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide
„The coffees of central Costa Rica comprise one of those classic origins that is respected but not fawned over. Although Costa Rica produces a variety of coffees, those that reach American specialty coffee menus usually are very high-grown Strictly Hard Bean (SHB) coffees from regions near the capital of San Jose in the central part of the country: Tarrazu, Herediá, Tres Rios, Volcan Poas. At best Costa Rica coffees from these regions are distinctive in a way that defies simple, romantic description. When good they are clean, balanced, and resonantly powerful.“
http://www.coffeereview.com/reference.cfm?id=53
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Tea & Coffee 05/04 - Hunting for Specialty in Costa Rica
„The good co-operatives are working on this. About 40% of Costa Rican coffee now goes through co-operatives, and the British party was interested to find how hard the co-ops were working to change the individual farmer’s idea of what coffee could do. They are having some success, and their farmers are reasonably well off, and looking forward to the next internet auctions in May. Last year, the best coffee fetched $10.35 per pound, which had an encouraging effect on individual farmers.“
http://www.teaandcoffee.net/0504/special.htm
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„The Cuban-rooted experience and the mainstream American one - a coffee competition seen almost nowhere else in the United States due to Miami's high concentration of Latin Americans and a coffee consuming tradition that predates the U.S. coffee craze by five decades.“
http://www.aboutcoffee.net/ 2002_12_01_bcearc.html
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Amazon.com: Gourmet Food: La Doka Estate - Costa Rican Coffee
„1 person recommended Costa Rica: The Last Country The Gods Made in addition to La Doka Estate - Costa Rican Coffee“
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/ b0000d9n25?v=glance
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