Villa Sarchi Coffee Beans
Villa Sarchi at altitude is clean and bright, citrus and red fruit with a delicate floral lift and real sweetness behind it. It's Bourbon's flavour with its own precision, not a diluted version. That flavour comes from a natural dwarf mutation of Bourbon, discovered in Sarchí, in Costa Rica's West Valley, sometime in the 1950s or 60s. Like Caturra in Brazil and Pacas in El Salvador, it came from a single spontaneous gene mutation that made the plant compact enough for steep hillsides, where full-sized Bourbon struggles. It reached Honduras in 1974 and found a second home there among quality-focused smallholders. Its main weakness is coffee leaf rust. That keeps it confined to specialty farms willing to manage the disease pressure closely. Crossed with Timor Hybrid in the 1960s, though, Villa Sarchi became the parent of the whole Sarchimor group, rust-resistant varieties including Parainema and Marsellesa. Central America grows them at scale today. Read more: Our Villa Sarchi varietal guide · Bourbon · Caturra · All varietal guides
