Introduction to the characteristics of Coffee Flavor description treatment in Saint-Roman Manor, Costa Rica

Costa Rica accounts for only 0.03% of the world's land area, but with nearly 4% of the world's species, Costa Rica is one of the countries with the richest biological species in the world. 26% of the land area is a national park or nature reserve, including 11 wetlands, 2 biological reserves and 3 World Natural Heritage sites. The national forest coverage rate is 52%.

Natural resources include iron, manganese, mercury, bauxite, gold and silver, among which the reserves of bauxite, iron and coal reach 150 million tons, 400 million tons and 50 million tons respectively. The recent situation is mainly distributed in the central gold belt area of the northwestern Tilaran Cordillera Mountains. Calcium carbonate is distributed in the northwest and has high taste. The purity of calcium carbonate extracted from limestone can reach 99.5%. Costa Rica attaches great importance to environmental protection and the exploitation of natural resources is strictly restricted.

Oil is completely dependent on imports, mainly from Colombia and other countries, and is monopolized by the National Oil Company (RECOPE), with an average annual import of 3 million tons of crude oil. Since 2012, the national oil company has suspended crude oil refining production due to aging facilities, and all fuel oil has been imported instead. In 2013, Costa Rica imported 19.3 million barrels of oil, with imports of US $2.3 billion, accounting for 5.5 per cent of GDP.

Costa Rica is located in the volcanic belt of the low latitudes of Central America, with the central plateau and mountains about 800 to 2000 meters above sea level.

The climate here has two obvious dry and wet seasons. The harvest period is from November to March of the following year, which coincides with the dry season, and coffee fruits of high quality and consistent maturity can be harvested. The dry season also provides sunshine conditions for the sun treatment, ensuring adequate precipitation in the rainy season. The fertile and well-drained pozzolanic soil provides sufficient nutrients for coffee growth, coupled with the growth advantage of high altitude, which has become a prerequisite for the breeding of high-quality coffee in Costa Rica.

Costa Rica's law only allows the planting of Arabica varieties, and Robusta is "contraband" in its territory, which shows the importance Costa Rica attaches to the quality of coffee. The varieties cultivated in Costa Rica are mainly caturra and catuai, and there are also many varieties in the country, the most famous of which is the bourbon variety villa sarchi, which grows very well at high elevations and has strong wind resistance. It can also grow in barren soil, and it will grow better under shade trees. The most prominent feature is excellent sweetness and good acidity. Costa Rica's coffee skills are very high, regardless of breeding, planting or post-processing methods (especially honey treatment) can be used as a reference for various producing countries.

There are many excellent producing areas in Costa Rica, and the high-quality producing areas of Costa Rica have a common understanding of quality, that is, it requires the use of mature coffee fruits to ensure the production of high-quality coffee.

Generally speaking, a large amount of water is used in the post-processing of the picked coffee fruit, but the advanced production equipment in Costa Rica saves the use of water resources to the greatest extent, and a circulating filter is used to treat the waste water from washing coffee beans. let the waste water be purified into clean water to prevent pollution of the local soil environment.

After peeling, the peel and pulp of the coffee fruit are recovered as feed for livestock, or converted into organic fertilizer, as well as coffee bean dryer fuel. It can be said that in every process of coffee production, Costa Rica complies with the requirements of maintaining the natural environment.