Cecilia Genis Murray

Zalmari Estate is a farm with 100 hectares of coffee plantation and 80 hectares of protected forest.

We began in 1910 when my great Grandfather on my mother’s side came to Costa Rica from England via Jamaica. I am Cecilia Genis, fourth generation family coffee producer of Zalmari Estate and third generation born in Costa Rica. I started to learn the business with my mother, Marigold Murray’s guidance, in 2005.

We started our own coffee micro-processing plant in 1997 where we mill approximately 23,000 kilos of green coffee per year.

Our processing is done with reduced amounts of water and environmentally friendly technologies. We sun dry our coffee on African beds and then give the final touch in the “guardiola” dryers.