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Taty Vargas
Tatiana is a smallholder coffee producer from the El Guarco area of Cartago, Costa Rica.
Her journey
Tatiana is a smallholder coffee producer from the El Guarco area of Cartago, Costa Rica.
When her father, Don Gerardo, passed away in 2016, she and her mother, Doña Leda, decided to manage and work on the farm that the family had put so much effort into establishing.
Don Gerardo always had the dream of starting a micro-mill and exporting his own coffee, but cancer prevented him from achieving this.
For Taty, coffee is a way of carrying on the memories and emotions forward.
Tatiana and her mother strove to make this of his dream come true, and in 2018 they opened a micro-mill and founded their own coffee brand, Legados Café Artesanal.
For both of them, coffee is so much more than just producing coffee: it is inviting others to fill each cup to the brim with emotions and memories, and it is a way to keep the memory of a loved one alive.
Story written by Tatiana Vargas and translated by Alice Mee.
Photos courtesy of Sierra Yeo of The Kore Directive.
About Taty’s Coffee
NAME OF THE MILL
Café Llegados
REGION / COUNTRY
Cartago, Costa Rica
ALTITUDE
~1,400 m above sea level
COFFEE VARIETY
Caturra, Catuai
PROCESS
Honey / Washed
NOTABLE FLAVOR NOTE
Orange , pleasant citrus-acidity, chocolate.