Mexico
Smallholder Producers
Smallholder Farms
Caturra, Typica, Costa Rica, and Marsellesa
Washed
2024 - 2025
Citrus, Red Apple, Milk Chocolate, Hazelnut, Brown Sugar
1350 meters
N/A
69 kg w/ GrainPro
EU - Hamburg, Germany - Schwarze
USA - New Jersey - CTI
USA - Oakland, CA - Annex - CTI
When it comes to buying green coffee, maintaining consistency in cup profile can be a real challenge for roasters. With so many different flavor profiles and crops that vary due to climate conditions, offering the same coffee to clients and consumers can become
difficult. With that in mind, we developed the Core Coffees program: a curated selection coffees from some of the world’s key origin countries: Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Perú, México Guatemala and Honduras.
Core Coffees are named after the national tree of each origin, celebrating the culture and natural environment from which they come. Our green coffee buyers carefully select lots that represent the traditional cup characteristics of each country.
The Ciprés was officially declared Mexico’s national tree in 1921. Revered since Aztec times and commonly planted near lakes and canals, it symbolizes endurance, wisdom, and connection to water and community life.
Sourced from indigenous coffee-producing communities in the Tenejapa region of Chiapas, this lot reflects the distinct identity of Mexican coffee. The region’s high elevations, volcanic soils, and rich cultural heritage shape both the land and its coffee.
Producers cultivate varieties including Caturra, Typica, Costa Rica, and Marsellesa, all processed using washed method to preserve clarity and highlight regional character. Harvested at altitudes between 1,000 and 1,350 meters, the coffee undergoes overnight fermentation before being sun-dried on patios for 12 to 18 days.
The state of Chiapas is Mexico’s southernmost coffee-growing region, bordered by Guatemala to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the south. Its landscape is marked by the Sierra Madre de Chiapas, a mountain range that rises from coastal plains into high-altitude forests, creating a remarkable diversity of microclimates and ecosystems. Protected areas such as El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve, home to one of the last remaining cloud forests in Central America, highlight the region’s rich biodiversity.
Coffee cultivation in Chiapas is concentrated in these highlands, where elevations between 1,200 and 1,800 meters above sea level, coupled with fertile volcanic soils, provide ideal conditions for Arabica varieties. Shade-grown under native trees, coffee here benefits from abundant rainfall and moderate year-round temperatures, factors that encourage slow cherry development and a complex cup profile.
Chiapas is also defined by its cultural heritage. Indigenous communities, including Tzeltal and Tzotzil Maya groups, play a central role in coffee production, often farming small plots of land passed down through generations. Their traditions, combined with sustainable practices and community-led cooperatives, make Chiapas one of Mexico’s most distinctive and celebrated coffee origins.
