MEXICO | Ozolotepec | Typica & Bourbon | Washed

Origin

• 🇲🇽 Mexico

Tasting notes

Character

• Clean
• Bright

Ozolotepec is a small town, high up in the Southern Sierra Madre Mountains, 3 hours south of Oaxaca City. Many of the producers who have contributed to this lot are native Zapotec. The Zapotec civilization was one of the highly developed cultures in pre-Colombian Meso america which, among other things, included a writing system and what archeologists consider the first city of ancient Mesoamerica, at Monte Albán , dating back to 1150 BCE. Our export partners at Caravela have been working heavily in the region since 2018 and have seen participation in their education programs grow quickly , to over 100 producers. Growing mostly BourbonBourbonOne of the two foundational arabica varieties (with Typica), named after Île Bourbon (Réunion). Sweet, balanced, caramel-leaning; parent of countless modern cultivars. and TypicaTypicaThe oldest cultivated arabica lineage, ancestor of most Latin American coffee. Low yield, clean and sweet cup; the baseline other varieties are measured against. varieties on small 1.5-3-hectare farms, farmers wash their coffees and dry them on concrete terraces covered in palm mats, which is very traditional for the area. This coffee is juicyAcidityThe 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. and sweet, with notes of citrus and stone fruit.