Gourmet. Café Llano Bonito prides itself on a business model that stresses these three main business components. Our goal is to bring you some of the best gourmet coffee in the world, directly from its producers who care for their farming and production environment. Café Llano Bonito works directly with a single farming cooperative in the Tarrazú region of Costa Rica - one of the world's finest co
ffee-growing regions. We have cut out all of the middlemen and pay this cooperative directly, so that they may in turn pay farmers a higher premium for the coffee that they so carefully produce. In fact, we have helped our cooperative recently export directly to a U.S. customer (that's us) for the very first time! And once the coffee arrives here in the United States, we offer it directly to coffee consumers. It's as close to farm-to-table as you can get with coffee, without living in a coffee-producing country. But don't just take our word for it - we will show you the relationships we have and how we are working with the farmers and families who produce our coffee. In addition to working directly with our producers, we're able to tell you that the production methods used at the fincas (farms) and beneficio (processing mill) are in line with current industry practices for organic and sustainable farming and processing. From the seedlings that are grown in sugar cane and coffee plant compost to the drying ovens at the beneficio that are powered by dried coffee husks, there is very little waste - if any - that comes from the cooperative's fincas or beneficio. The farmers of Llano Bonito are proud to be careful custodians of their local environment and try to create the smallest impact possible on their local ecosystem. Not only is Café Llano Bonito's coffee direct and sustainable, but it is also the very best that our cooperative has to offer. The Llano Bonito region benefits from one of the world's most ideal climates and soils for growing coffee and the farmers employ some of the best farming practices in the entire industry. All of our coffee beans are 100% arabica, they are grown at altitudes above 1500 meters, they are hand-picked at the peak of ripeness, and we select and purchase only the grade-A beans for our brand. This creates a consistently gourmet cup that has a very good acidity, offers delicious flavors of citrus and chocolate, and has a silky-smooth mouth-feel, with none of the bitterness of lower quality arabica and robusto coffee beans. You can be certain that our coffee is top-notch and that the care that is put into producing each bean is second to none. You'll be hard-pressed to find a better value, quality, or consistency with each cup or bag from Café Llano Bonito. Because of that, we recommend drinking our coffee black so that you can enjoy all of the wonderful qualities of a premium, well-crafted coffee.
