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Mexico Chiapas Finca El Zapote Pedro Mendez Washed
$6.52 - $238.14
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Country: Mexico
Region: Tenejapa, Central Highlands, Chiapas
Farm: El Zapote
Varieties: Typica, Bourbon, Caturra
Processing: Washed
Altitude: 1350-1500 m.a.s.l.
Humidity: 10.2%
Density: 1.22 g/ml
Harvest Date: January, 2022
Arrival Date: March, 2022
Grade: SHG EP
Marks: 016-2561-0006
SCA Cupping Score: 84.5
- Sweet fragrance and aroma, notes of honey, milk chocolate, nutty with a minty aftertaste, mild orange acidity, creamy medium body. Overall well balanced and sweet.
- Like most of the coffee from Chiapas that we source, this lot from Pedro Mendez is a very versatile coffee. Medium roasts seem to be where the coffee shines with very sugary sweetness and mellow acidity. The coffee also holds heat well into darker roasts for more notes of chocolate and brown spices. Note the density of this lot when roasting as it may require a bit more energy to roast.
Pedro Mendez is a third-generation coffee grower
in the highlands of the Tenejapa municipality in Chiapas.
Sr. Mendez cultivates bourbon, typica and caturra varieties on his 6-hectare farm
about 1500 meters above sea level. He has his own depulper and fermentation tank on-site to process and dry the coffee after harvesting. Don Pedro uses freshly picked cherries and depulps them into the fermentation tank where it is left to ferment for 17 to 24 hours, depending on weather conditions.
In 2008, Sr. Mendez met Juan Loera of Mayan Winds and was a founding member of the Kulaktik group, which has grown to over 150 members. Like all of its members, Finca El Zapote holds USDA organic certification and is committed to sustainability and preservation of the local Mayan Tzeltal culture.