Costa Rican coffee has set the standards for fine wet-processed coffee for the rest of Central and South America.  The most famous coffees by region are Tarrazu, Tres Rios, Herediá, and Alajuela. 
Most coffee in Costa Rica comes from the caturra coffee varietal and is characterized as a bright and full bodied coffee.  The best Costa Rican coffee beans, are designated as "strictly hard bean".  The "good hard bean" classification is given to coffees grown from 3,300 to 3,900 feet.
The Tarrazu region, which is located in the interior mountains of Costa Rica, produces a relatively heavy coffee with more aromatic complexity. The La Minita estate is the most sought after coffee in all of Costa Rica. This Coffee Source produces coffees in the Tarrazu region. Each Costa Rica coffee plantation listed in this source is a model of ecological as well as social excellence. The growing area of this organically shade grown coffee is friendly to all which surrounds its growing area i.e. the people, the towns, the animals and the land. i.e. Sheep are used to keep control of the other plants which grown around these coffee plants. Fertilization - Cow manure acts as a natural pesticide, birds (shade grown) help control the insects, which in turn promotes a greener world.