Mexico Chiapas Altura

Origin

• 🇲🇽 Mexico

Tasting notes

Character

• Bright
  30
• Clean
  20

Mexico Chiapas Altura is sourced from family-owned farms organized around the Cooperativa de Producción Tzeltal-Tzotzil. An organization operating in the northern part of Chiapas, Mexico. Exceptional care is taken by producers to depulp, ferment, and dry their coffee. All of which is made possible by farm-owned micro mills. Farms from this organization tend to be less than ten acres in size and produce honeyHoney processThe skin is removed but some sticky fruit mucilage is left on during drying. Lands between washed and natural: more sweetness and body than washed, cleaner than natural. as well as coffee. Farm owners and producers heavily focus on organic production methods to protect the environment, increase overall quality, and gain higher income. All of which improve the livelihood of their families and communities. Description Mexico Chiapas Altura is comfortingly sweet, boasting a medium bodyBodyThe weight and texture of coffee in the mouth, from tea-like and delicate to syrupy and heavy. Driven by process, roast, variety, and brew method. with milk chocolate flavors interlaced with light spice and a sweet, mild finish. As a true fan favorite, it’s a great way to start your morning! / Medium Roast / Flavors of Milk Chocolate and Spice, Mild AcidityAcidityThe bright, lively, fruit-like sensation in coffee — praise, not a flaw. Citric sparkle, malic apple-crispness, tartaric wine notes; light roasts preserve more of it. / Certified Organic San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico Altitude: 1400 m – 1500 m Varietal: BourbonBourbonOne of the two foundational arabica varieties (with Typica), named after Île Bourbon (Réunion). Sweet, balanced, caramel-leaning; parent of countless modern cultivars., Mondo Novo, TypicaTypicaThe oldest cultivated arabica lineage, ancestor of most Latin American coffee. Low yield, clean and sweet cup; the baseline other varieties are measured against. Process: Full WashedWashed processThe fruit is removed from the seed before drying, usually with fermentation and a water rinse. Tends to give clean, transparent cups where origin character shows clearly., Sun DriedNatural processThe whole cherry is dried with the fruit still on the seed. Gives heavier body and big fruit flavors — think berries and wine — sometimes with a fermenty edge.