La Isabela - Natural Sudan Rume | Costa Rica
£17.00
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Coffee Details
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Rest guidance
Recommended rest: 2–3 weeks from roast.
Based on the roaster's recommendation.
About Hydrangea Coffee Roasters
Hydrangea is a Berkeley coffee project built around light, fruit-forward and process-focused coffees. Founders Bill and Shuxin embrace the weird and wonderful side of specialty coffee, pairing vivid flavour profiles with playful illustrated packaging.
Roaster notes
Details:
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Origin: Costa Rica — La Isabela, West Valley
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Producer: Max Salazar (Finca La Isabela)
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Varietal: Sudan Rume
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Process: Natural
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Elevation: ~1,550 – 1,700 m above sea level
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Roast: Light
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Bag Size: 114g
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Tasting Notes: Strawberry 🍓 • Grape Candy 🍬 • Baking Spices ✨
Intro:
Hydrangea is excited to present Sudan Rume Natural from La Isabela, a vibrant and rare coffee from Costa Rica’s West Valley. This lot highlights the extraordinary character of the Sudan Rume varietal — a prestigious heirloom with a reputation for expressive aromatics and compelling complexity — brought to life through natural processing that enhances fruit sweetness and syrupy depth.
The Producer:
This coffee is grown and processed by Max Salazar at Finca La Isabela, a farm in the West Valley known for thoughtful cultivation and quality‑focused microlots. Max continues a family legacy of coffee farming that balances eco‑conscious practices with meticulous attention to cherry ripeness and post‑harvest care — essential for preserving the delicate character of rare varietals like Sudan Rume.
The Process:
Hydrangea’s Sudan Rume is processed using a natural method, where fully ripe cherries are dried whole. This approach allows the bean to absorb fruit sugars and aromatics directly from the cherry, intensifying sweetness and body. Carefully managed drying under sun‑lit conditions brings out rich fruit‑driven layers and spice complexity, while preserving brightness.
The Cup:
Bright, juicy, and playful — this coffee delivers fresh strawberry 🍓 sweetness up front, complemented by grape‑candy 🍬 notes that evoke playful, nostalgic fruit intensity. Underlying hints of baking spices ✨ add warmth and depth to the mid‑palate, giving the cup both balance and personality. The finish is smooth and lingering, making this a delightful choice for filter brewing.
Overall:
This is a distinctive and expressive offering that showcases the remarkable potential of a rare heirloom varietal when combined with careful natural processing. With its juicy fruit sweetness, playful candy‑like character, and spice‑kissed depth, it’s an engaging and memorable filter coffee — perfect for moments when you want something bright, nuanced, and singularly flavourful
We recommend brewing with beans that are at least two weeks off roast. All beans are roasted to peak flavour at around 6-12 weeks. We have the option to either purchase standard beans (at least 2 weeks but no longer than 6 weeks off roast), or rested beans (at least 7 weeks off roast, no longer than 12 - should we have any left in stock!). For peak flavour, if you are looking to use immediately, we recommend purchasing the rested beans. If you are adding to your rotation of beans, we recommend purchasing the standard and allowing the beans to naturally rest and mature whilst you rotate through other beans.
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