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Mexico San Mateo Yoloxochitlan Double Fermentation Washed
Plum, Panela, Lemongrass
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Variety: Bourbon, Marsellesa, Typica
Process: Double Fermented & Washed
Fermentation: 48hr macerated in cherry, 24hr depulped in water
Drying: Sundried on raised beds
Elevation: 1450-1850 MASL
Producer: smallholder family farms, organized by Terra Coffeas Mexico and Galguera Gomez
Region: San Mateo Yoloxochitlan, Oaxaca
Origin: Mexico
This coffee is collectively produced by small family farms in the growing region of Sierra Mazateca de Oaxaca, located in the northernmost corner of Oaxaca, where the local population still wears traditional indigenous clothing and intercrops coffee with bananas, corn, beans, and fruit trees.​
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During the harvest, each producer follows a strict protocol which includes picking cherries at optimum ripeness, hand sorting, and floating in a salt solution to remove damaged, undeveloped beans and macerating for 48 hours. Next, the beans are depulped and fermented for 24 hours while submerged in water. After fermentation, the parchment is washed and placed on patios or raised beds to slowly dry to 11%.
When coffee is cultivated and harvested from small family-owned farms, exporters play a critical role in ensuring quality and fairness. The collaborative sourcing team of Terra Coffeas México and an export company called Galguera Gomez hit the mark on delivering high-quality community lots with traceability and transparent pricing for farmers. Galguera Gomez has been preparing and exporting coffee since 1985 and specializes in preparing traceable Oaxacan lots and paying producers higher incomes for the quality of their coffee. Terra Coffeas México provides post-harvest strategies and cupping expertise that has brought many talented producers into the specialty coffee fold. The model is the perfect hybrid where individual farmers take responsibility for farm management and the post-harvest process with support from Terra Coffeas México, ensuring that each farmer has access to best practices.
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Burundi Ngozi Turihamwe Turashobora Washed
Chrysanthemum, Apricot, Black Currant
Variety: Bourbon
Process: Washed
Drying: Dried on Raised Beds; Shaded then under Sun
Producer: 2000 smallholder farmers organized in the Turihamwe Turashobora producer group
Region: Ngozi province
Country: Burundi
Elevation: 1750 MASL
This is our second coffee from JNP, a women-founded and -led exporter in Burundi whose goal has been to empower women producers, improve their financial literacy, education for them and their children, and invest in clean water solutions. They provide all their producers with a Dushime ("thankful" in Kirundi) bonus second payment based on their coffee quality, which allows women to pay for their children's education, invest in the coffee farms, and save money for their families for the first time.
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This producer group calls themselves Turihamwe Turashobora in Kirundi, which translates to “Together We Can!’’ This farmer-and-women-led-organization pooled the premiums earned through IWCA and JNP’s “Dushime” payment program and built their own wet mill in 2018 to maintain quality and better capture and represent the value of the coffee grown in their community.
The wet mill and quality team is entirely women-led and works closely with JNP’s trained Q Graders on best quality practices, lot curation, and building more efficient water treatment system for the processing station.
In the fully washed processing, cherry is floated for density and visible defects prior to mechanical depulping and demucilaginating. Thanks to the mechanical mucilage removal, fermentation is quick, lasting only overnight, after which the wet parchment is sorted by density under water in concrete tanks, and then soaked again once complete. Drying takes place at first under shade, and then in the open air with the parchment piled into pyramids, which are flattened and re-shaped each day as a form of incremental air exposure to slowly and evenly dry the coffee and lock in the final moisture. The resulting profile is exceedingly clean, bright and delicate.
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Colombia Francy Castillo's Geisha Washed
Fruit Candy, Peach, Bergamot
Variety: Geisha
Process: Washed
Fermentation: 60hr depulped + 70hr in bags
Drying: Mechanical Dryer + Patio
Producer: Francy Castillo
Farm: Finca El Uberrimo
Elevation: 2018 MASL
Region: Arboleda, Narino
Origin: Colombia
Francy grew up with her 4 sisters on their family coffee farm.
She studied Agronomy, worked in the field, and in sensory development in an export lab, to deepen her knowledge and appreciation for the industry. Since her farm is remote, it was previously challenging to access the international market. With the help of our green importer Apex, we now proudly showcase this beautiful coffee with such high clarity and a depth of fruity notes. The crisp transparency of flavours in this coffee makes every sip an absolute enjoyment.
After a first season's success and adoration from our coffee lovers, this is the second harvest of Francy's Geisha that we bring to our line up! Though delicate, we enjoy this coffee in all forms - Pour Over, Espresso, and an Espresso x Milk 7oz - The milk drink be like an elevated Earl Grey Tea Latte, with a floral honey sweetness!
Every month, we bring on 3 new coffees in our lineup, serving them on Tasting Menu, which include Flight of 3 Coffees 1 Way, or Flight of 1 Coffee 3 Ways! These coffees are designed each month to broaden our coffee journey, to experience a wide spectrum of flavours that coffee can achieve from its origin, variety, and processes!
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