Mexican Chiapas – Archived

Taste: Like many roasters and coffee drinkers, we are guilty of under-estimating the progress Mexico has made in coffee quality.  Thankfully, our son home-roasted some and turned us on to this excellent bean.  Bright and full-flavored, this favorite for blending stands well on its own – very well indeed.  This is a reasonably priced choice for an excellent, mild, easy-drinking single origin everyday coffee.

Roast: Best at Medium/Dark (Full City Roast), but handles all roasts very well.

About: For the past few years, our supplier has been sourcing coffee from several different cooperatives in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, along the buffer zone of El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve, one of the world’s most diverse forest reserves. In the highlands of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas, the reserve contains Mesoamerica’s largest continuous cloud forest, and is a refuge for thousands of plant and animal species.

Within this buffer zone is the Comon Yaj Noptic cooperative. (Comon Yaj Noptic means “all of us think.”) The producers here have the advantage of many ideal conditions, including good altitude, obviously a very lush environment, and high-quality coffee varieties like Typica, Bourbon, and Caturra. The grower members are passionate about quality and even though this region is not always thought of for exceptional lots, there is strong microlot potential from the groups we’ve been partnering with here. The area is very close to the border of Guatemala and that country’s famous coffee region Huehuetenango: Some of the best of what we taste from those coffees is possible here as well.

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