Costa Rica Los Cuarteles - Yellow Honey

This will be our third year handling Los Cuarteles . We were captivated by their wines when we purchased them in 2023, and have continued to purchase from them ever since, even visiting them in 2025.

Los Cuarteles was founded in 2014 by Mario and Freddy. This is a micromill run with the goal of producing consistently high quality honey processed coffee.

Currently, we own several farms and produce a variety of varieties including Catuai, Caturra, Geisha, and Villa Sarchí.

This batch is made from Katsui yellow honey. Not only is it consistently high quality every year, but it also has a very appealing sweetness. The texture is also excellent, supporting the sweetness.

The honey process is a method of drying coffee cherries with the mucilage still attached after the pulp is removed from the harvested cherries. It is a production method that is intermediate between the washed method, in which the cherries are soaked in water after the pulp is removed and then dried, and the natural method, in which the cherries are sun-dried with the pulp still attached, and is particularly well-developed in Costa Rica.
Producers can intentionally control the amount of mishraes they leave behind, and honey with the most left is called black, red, yellow, or white honey.