Mexican Coffee | Organic Coffee | Finca La Triumph | Arabica Coffee Beans

Mexico Chiapas | Finca La Triumph - Native Forest Coffee

Origin: Chiapas, Mexico

Growing estate: Triumph Farmers Cooperative

Varieties: Typica, Bourbon, Mundo Novo

Planting altitude: 900-1750 meters

Green bean processing: washed

Planting area: 119,177 hectares

The region where the Triumph Cooperative sits ranks among the most biodiverse on earth - not just in Mexico. Shade-grown coffee is a hallmark of the Triumph Farmers Cooperative, which also holds certifications such as Fair Trade and Organic. Its farmers grow their coffee in buffer zones between ecological protection areas.

Founded in 2001, the Triumph Cooperative brings together more than 260 smallholder coffee farmers. Its ecological reserve lies in the Sierra Madre highlands of Chiapas - one of the most species-rich native forests in the world, wrapped in perennial alpine clouds and home to tens of thousands of plant and animal species. In this forest, still wild and mysterious, you can find towering trees up to 90 meters tall, understory vegetation of tree ferns and vines, and delicate wild orchids sheltering quietly among them.

More than 120 bird species inhabit this native forest, making it a paradise for birdwatchers.

About Mexican Organic Coffee

Mexico is one of the world's largest producers of certified organic coffee, and thanks to geography, most of it is exported to the United States.

The country's coffee industry began in the 19th century, introduced through Jamaica, and has always centered on Arabica varieties. Production started in the Soconusco region near the Pacific coast by the Guatemalan border.

By the early 1990s, the southern state of Chiapas had become Mexico's most important coffee-producing region, with an annual output of about 275,000 tons - some 45% of the national total.

Over two million Mexicans depend on coffee for their livelihood. Seventy-five percent of Mexican coffee farmers work plots smaller than two hectares, and these smallholders produce roughly 30% of the country's coffee each year; the rest comes from large or higher-capacity farms.

Since 1988 - especially in Chiapas - the government has encouraged poor coffee farmers to increase production and expand planting area by offering simple loans and promoting forest-land development, in order to raise their incomes.

Chiapas sits on the southern Mexican plateau, bordering Guatemala. In 1991, the Mexican National Institute studied protections for indigenous peoples' rights and strengthened them through product trade regulations. Under that framework, cooperative organizations sprang up across the country like mushrooms after rain.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

The Triumph lot is washed processed, and washing is exactly what gives coffees like this their signature profile: the beans' long soak drives chemical changes inside the seed, consuming simple sugars and building organic acids, so washed coffee tends to keep the bean's own aromas while adding bright fruit acidity, cleanliness, and freshness. If that style appeals to you, these FrontStreet washed lots are worth brewing:

• FrontStreet Yirgacheffe Worka (Guodingding) Cooperative - from a smallholder cooperative in Guodingding village whose refined, meticulous processing was uncovered and made famous precisely because of how clean the coffee tastes. At a medium-light roast it shows jasmine florals, bright citrus acidity, then green tea and honey - excellent as pour-over, cold brew, or even espresso.
• FrontStreet Kenya Cherry Tomato - Kenya's double-washed fermentation is the gold standard of the method: repeated washing and soaking coax out an extreme juiciness of cherry tomato, dark plum, snow pear, black plum, and raw sugar, sweet-sour and vivid.
• FrontStreet Jamaica Blue Mountain No.1 - the classic washed cup: aromatic and pure, with hazelnut, cream, chocolate, and caramel, perfectly balanced so that no single note dominates or falls short.

Brewed pour-over at 1:15 with water around 90 degrees C, all three show exactly what the Triumph coffee's washed processing promises: clarity, brightness, and the true voice of the bean.