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A rhetorical question… Is there a more complicated world political relationship than that of the United States and Mexico? Doubtful. There is that small disagreement with Texas… “Remember the Alamo”. There is that small Battle of San Jacinto on April 21,1836 resulting in the Republic of Texas. That little skirmish in 1846, the Mexican American War, where Mexico succeed the Alta California and Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico territories; modern day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, that cemented the United States “Manifest Destiny” from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. The 1914 Tampico Affair and United States occupation of Veracruz. General Pershing’s 1917 pursuit of Pancho Villa into Mexico. The 1917 Zimmerman telegram where Germany encouraged Mexico to invade the United States upon entering World War I. Modern-day border and immigration disputes. The living legacy of NAFTA which, although well intentioned, has stirred a working middle-class melee and a deep national economic divide, cutting a swath through the Deep South, the Breadbasket and the Rust Belt. Fortunately, our Mexico Chiapas Villa Corzo is fairly straight forward. Located in the Chiapas Highlands, Villa Corzo is a town 500 miles southeast of Mexico City, 175 miles northwest of Guatemala and 105 miles due east of the Pacific Ocean.
Our coffee comes from a producer group centered in this area where each farm is between 7 ½ and 12 ½ acres. In processing, the coffee cherries are washed and dried at the individual farms before being delivered to the local mill. This heterogeneity provides small batches leading to unique profiles from farm to farm… the result is increased complexity in the blends. Villa Corzo hits the coffee bull-eye dead center… imagine any grocery store canned commercial grade coffee and multiply by 100. This is a coffee’s coffee… not harsh bitterness nor bland taste but the smoothest nutty bitter-sweet that brightens you palate and lingers. I thank the heavens for the great variety of coffees, but I would be a happy guy drinking this every day. We think you will concur but isn’t it nice we have the conundrum of so many other choices.
Process: Washed… all the cherry removed.
Elevation: 4265 - 6230 feet
