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COFFEE The Golden Bean

Costa Rica´s Coffee History

"Coffee - the favorite drink of the civilized world." A delicious beverage that not only helps stimulate millions of individuals all around the world every day, but which has also served to stimulate the national economies of many a tropical nation worldwide and perhaps none more so than that of Costa Rica, where it has had a significant economic impact since the early 1800´s. Discovered over 1000 years ago, coffee has had a great influence throughout the world and Costa Rica is no exception. Costa Rica´s specialty mountain grown, hand-harvested arabica beans grown in high altitude rich volcanic soil and receiving an excellent quality of water & tropical sunshine are well known throughout the coffee drinking world as a gourmet coffee of truly superior quality.

- Thomas Jefferson

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