Sandra Farms Coffee — Attraction in Adjuntas

Wow, I just read through all the negative reviews here and would love to set some expectations as I guarantee you the quality of coffee is absolutely worth it. We drove through a rain storm to get here In a rental car. It is small mountain roads and a lot of it is one lane. You should expect this in the mountains of Puerto Rico. The road really only became a little more rugged a mile before the house. We had plans to just park and walk in if it became too bad but we were easily able to drive around any rugged areas. At no point did we need four-wheel-drive. Which is good because we didn’t have it .We had called in advanced and got the OK to arrive right before they closed. Like a good guest I suggest you either book a tour or do the same to make sure they’re home and are expecting you. When you see the Sandra’s sign watch for a hairpin turn on the left that goes uphill to the yellow house. If you end up at a shack/garage structure past the sign, you’ve gone too far. The owner is a third generation Cuban/Puerto Rican Coffee farmer, and is a wealth of information. We thoroughly enjoyed chatting with him, and even though we were late on arrival, he graciously still offered to brew natural coffee for us. OMG. Smoothest coffee ever and so delicious it does not require milk or cream. He is utilizing some heirloom coffee bush that is not used in larger scale, coffee production, but it is a higher quality. If you were looking To connect with real people producing the best coffee and an adventure within an actual small scale working farm environment come here. If you are expecting a polished coffee plantation tour like you would get with larger scale production companies and to not touch dirt this may not be for you. Absolutely worth the drive in my opinion and an experience we will value indefinitely. (Plus, not too far away in Lares is in the famous Ice cream company Heladeria Lares - 40-50 Exotic Ice Cream Flavors.) definitely one of our favorite connections that we made in Puerto Rico....

Excellent coffee, Beautiful people. You won’t be disappointed in the experience of a guided tour of Sandra Farms. Although the drive (depending upon your route) can raise the hair on your arms, once at the historic coffee farm, surrounded by lush greenery (coffee, citrus, cacao, bananas, and so much more grow here), you’ll feel as if you’ve arrived in heaven.

Domenico’s tour of the farm was packed with history and cultural insight, so I learned not only about the coffee bean and process of taking it from plant to cup but also how the recent natural disaster (hurricane Maria) and island politics affect production and livelihoods.

Sandra and Israel welcome visitors up to the house for a tasting and chat after the tour, which meant the opportunity to make great friends. They shared stories of their challenges on the farm and their future plans for recovering old varietals they often discover growing throughout overgrown acreage.

It’s been fascinating to learn of their work with other local coffee farmers to help others to create sustainable livelihoods from their coffee beans. Sandra Farms believes in lifting others up for the success of the community of growers, which is such a refreshing philosophy.

I highly recommend a visit and tour, but even better, if you have time for an overnight, book a stay in their Airbnb on the property. A green-energy accommodation, the little cottage set high in the forest will restore you after the stress and heat of the big city. Get up early, and you can walk outside and peer down into a...

The place was a complete dump. Wasp nests everywhere on the ceiling of her home. A colony of ants walking on her counter tops inside of her home. It really made me question whether it was even sanitary to drink from the coffee cups they gave us to try their “amazing” coffee. It was supposed to be a tour of a “coffee farm” but they show you like 4 coffee trees and talk about random like fruits or other plants and then serve you already prepared coffee that wasn’t freshly picked and ground up in front of your eyes. First coffee tasted extremely bitter and the second coffee was sour like vinegar. The dark chocolates were mediocre at best and honestly felt like they just put whatever concoction they wanted into the dark chocolate to make it “special.” I would rather eat Hershey’s chocolate 1000x over then eat the dark chocolate with random stuff in it. Then they try to sell you extremely overpriced coffee, dark chocolate, and beef jerky at the end. What a complete joke. The place reminded me of an abandoned house in the jungle. Oh and the drive was absolutely horrendous. Roads were extremely narrow and its a one way road but its treated as a two way. The roads also dont have any guard rails so if you mess up say goodbye you’re falling off the mountain. Basically the whole vibe was youre traveling to someone’s abandoned house in the jungle mountains and touring their backyard that is completely filthy and only has like 4 coffee trees and wasp/fire ant infestations. Idk why these reviews are gassing this place up. Save your...