Costa Rica Coffea Diversa Ghimbi Honey

 Taste: A complex cup with flavor notes more in common with an Ethiopian coffee than a Costa Rican one. Meyer Lemon, Jasmine, Toasted coconut. Lively acidity brings the citrus notes to the forfront. The coffee finishes with a caramel-like sweetness.   Background Info Gonzalo Hernandez likes to brag that he’s amassed the world’s largest private collection of coffees trees: more than two hundred species, botanical varieties, mutations and cultivars that grow on his exotic Costa Rican “coffee garden”, Coffea Diversa. His collection includes some of the rarest in the world -- coffees many have neither heard of nor tasted.Of each variety Gonzalo has only a few trees, and his coffees are sold in small 10 kilogram bags to knowledgeable roasters and friends around the world, first come, first serve. We first visited Coffea diversa and met Gonzalo 10 years ago, and we’ve been looking forward to sharing these ever since.  While there are hundreds of varieties that have been collected from cof