Costa Rica Montes de Oro

Montes de Oro is a distinguished micro-mill run by Emilio “Milo” and Laura Gamboa in Costa Rica’s renowned Tarrazú region. The Gamboa family has been a longstanding Farmlevel partner of ours, with coffee farming in their lineage dating back to the 1800s. Today, Milo and Laura oversee daily operations across their four farms and manage the mill with a focus on quality and tradition.

Milo inherited the farm from his father, Tutto Gamboa, who played a pioneering role in the micro-mill movement that began sweeping Tarrazú in the early 2000s. As production costs rose and profits shrank, Tutto was among the first to invest in milling his own coffee, giving farmers more control over processing and business relationships.

Of their four farms, Yasal sits at the highest elevation. Only five of its fifty hectares are planted with coffee, but those few acres produce something special. Once used for cattle, the land was transformed in 1980 into what is now the highest-elevation coffee farm in Tarrazú. With the region’s natural advantages and the Gamboa family’s deep agricultural expertise, it’s no surprise we’re able to offer this remarkable coffee year after year.