We are very excited to introduce the latest addition to our McLaughlin Reserve line – a sweet and balanced natural coffee sourced from the Monge family's La Esperanza Familia Monge farm in Tarrazu, Costa Rica. This coffee has a medium light body complemented by a fruity acidity. 

The flavor profile of this coffee is wonderfully sweet. Upon your first sip, you'll find the fruity sweetness of peach iced tea. The peachy tea flavor continues into the middle of the cup, where the sweet citrus notes of Meyer lemon ramp up and become the dominant flavor. The finish is layered and complex, with the Meyer lemon brightness reaching its apex, before slowly fading and melding with sweet peach notes. The aftertaste is long, fruity, and sweet and has the mouthfeel and flavor of hard fruit candy. 

This sweet, fruity coffee will be available for about a month, so be sure to take advantage of this limited time offering before the middle of September.

Roast Color: Light 

Cupping Notes: Peach Iced Tea, Meyer Lemon, Hard Candy

Producer Details: There is nowhere like Costa Rica when it comes to coffee processing and micro-mill innovations. Just ask Rodolfo Monge who has dedicated more than 40 years cultivating coffee at his 12-acre farm called La Esperanza Familia Monge located in La Esperanza de Tarrazu within the province of San José. Much of the recent innovation has been fueled by Rodolfo’s son, Gustavo Monge. While Rodolfo has years of experience cultivating coffee, he has only been processing the family’s coffee for the last four years in large part because of Gustavo’s interest in creating traceability for his family's coffee. The father and son pair now work together using their own micro-mill where cherry selection and drying are meticulously executed. This natural processed coffee is an example of precisely executed methods of drying coffee inside the cherry, which eliminates the need to wash the coffee and greatly reduces the environmental impact, while at the same time, producing an expressive cup profile.

Learn more about the story behind McLaughlin Reserve here