PRODUCER: Mazateca Community

ORIGIN: Oaxaca, Mexico

ALTITUDE: 1,970 meters above sea level

VARIETY: Typica, Bourbon, Mundo Novo

PROCESS: Washed

NOTES: Chocolate Turtles, Dried Cherries, Orchard Fruit

The Coffee

San Isidro is a coffee that comes from the ??San Lucas Zoquiápam municipality in the La Canada region of Oaxaca, Mexico. This coffee is the representation of a community of coffee farmers who belong to indigenous Mazatec ethnic group. For the most part, the farmers are processing their individual crops at their homes: floating, pulping, fermenting, washing, and drying them.

After this processing, they combine their crops together and, with the help of the Co-op Red 5 de Deciembre, take their coffee to market. Community efforts like this have helped to shine the spotlight on the very exciting Mexican coffee scene, and we are proud to get to serve it to you!

The Flavor Profile

An exciting and complex coffee, this one evolves throughout the drinking process. At first it is caramelized and sweet, with notes of sugar-browning and chocolate, but as it cools it is a bit brighter with dried berries and fresh orchard fruits on the palate. All of this complexity sits upon a foundation of fudgy, toasted nut richness. And on espresso, San Isidro is a treat! Chocolate covered cherries and toffee coat the palate, with a finish that is long and rich. It’s great black and with milk. However you drink it, this one’s a winner.