Costa Rica Tarrazu Ojo de Agua
Cafe Imports drove around Costa Rica and found communities where farmers were growing some of the best coffee in the country, but then taking it to the mill and dumping it in with all the other beans. So they started a program called Community Coffees where they pay the farmers directly, keep all the individual small lots separated, and on top of all that, donate or build something that the community needs (and while this sounds charitable, and is, it is also a business investment because they want to make sure these farmers are enabled and in good health to continue growing the world's best coffee. This is the third year of the program, and it has done things like built roads, roofs, water wells, and schools in these communities. This community is within Tarrazu and is called Ojo de Agua. There were several coffees to choose from, but this one in particular tasted "magical" to us when we sampled it, and we kept coming back to it, so this is the one we went with. This is best at City