Mazateca Minute - Mexico

Country: Mexico
Region: Sierra Mazateca
Elevation: 1500 masl
Process: Natural 
Coffee Variety: Typica, Mundo Novo, Bourbon

Tastes like: orange chocolate and maraschino cherry

Medium roast -  we recommend brewing as espresso. 

Boozy and indulgent, this absolute ripper is a naturally processed coffee, brimming with sweet notes of chocolate and preserved fruit with a boozy yet smooth creamy finish. It’s a stunning coffee from an epic coffee region, pushing hard to crack into the specialty market. 

This particular lot is a regional blend, from a spectacularly diverse yet isolated Sierra Mazateca in the north of Oaxaca. We of course purchased these coffees from our friends at Raw Material, who work closely with producer groups there to improve quality and create a sustainable supply chain and help producers access the specialty market.

Interestingly, speaking to the diversty of the region, the first language in Sierra Mazateca, is Mazateco, the language of the indigenous Mazatec people, instead of Spanish. Also, similar to coffee production throughout Oaxaca, most plantations produce on average 100 kg of coffee per year. While this isn’t heaps, they use some pretty sweet, traditional forms of agriculture where coffee trees are grown amongst native trees and other crop varieties. Meaning they have a far more diverse ecosystem which in turn leads to far more environmentally sustainable practices. However, as is the case with much of Mexican and central american production, the region has been impacted massively by the leaf rust, which has further exaggerated the regions  lower production yields and exacerbated the negative economic situation in the region.