What are the good coffee estates in Mexico? What coffee beans are used for Mexican single-origin coffee and what is the flavor?

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Introduction to Mexican Coffee

Mexico, this exotic place, features deserts, blue waters, mountains, vast cities, and small villages. In recent years, the demand for high-quality coffee has significantly increased buyers' interest in Mexican coffee, helping to elevate Mexico's status from previously blended coffee to single-origin and organic specialty products.

The Cup of Excellence Competition

The Cup of Excellence (COE) competition is the most rigorous and objective coffee competition.

CESMACH Cooperative

CESMACH is the acronym for Campesinos Ecológicos de la Sierra Madre de Chiapas (Ecological Farmers of the Chiapas Sierra Madre). The cooperative was established in 1994 in Mexico's ecologically rich El Triunfo region. To avoid disrupting the natural ecosystem, Mexican coffee farmers adopted organic cultivation methods, growing coffee under the shade of mist forests according to local environmental conditions. Although this environment limits the coffee cultivation area, the decaying leaves under the shade provide fertilizer nutrients for coffee trees, while the diverse bird species in the ecological zone help control coffee tree pests.

The CESMACH cooperative used community development funds provided by Fair Trade to build warehouses, offering sufficient space and equipment for coffee storage and packaging operations, thereby improving quality and reducing costs.

Women's Empowerment

In addition to being environmentally friendly, the CESMACH cooperative is also committed to women's empowerment. Locally, because husbands often need to move to other regions for work, many women must take on the responsibility of caring for the entire family, often facing difficulties of insufficient income and food scarcity.

Café Femenino Foundation

The CESMACH cooperative is one of the members of the Café Femenino Foundation. Café Femenino has long focused on women in coffee-producing regions worldwide, providing diverse income channels and fostering female leadership and cooperative management, hoping to change the situation where women face unfairness and long-term neglect, developing their self-confidence and independence.

Three Seasons Orange Estate

Mexico's Three Seasons Orange Estate is the collective name for three small farms, cultivated separately by three generations but with exceptional batches harvested and processed together!

The respective farm names and three generations are: Los Azahares Primavera, Los Azahares Verano, Los Azahares Otoño 2017, and the three generations: Diego Jiménez Luna, Pedro Jiménez Santiz, Antonia Giron López.

Mexico's Three Seasons Orange Estate is located in Chiapas state, in the municipality of Tenejapa at an altitude of 1570 meters. The varieties are Bourbon and Yellow Catuai, processed using traditional washed methods. Chiapas is situated in Mexico near the border with neighboring Guatemala, belonging to a higher altitude coffee cultivation area. Since the first Cup of Excellence competition in 2012, many award-winning small farms have emerged in Chiapas; and Three Seasons Orange's cultivation management—harvesting—manual depulching post-harvest—simple fermentation tank treatment—drying after fermentation completion (sun-dried or machine-dried), the above process of handling everything independently is quite common, as they lack the resources to hire outsiders and all farms are small-scale, thus becoming self-sufficient family estates.

Brewing Recommendations

FrontStreet Coffee recommends brewing with water at 89-90°C. Three Seasons Orange coffee possesses delicate floral notes and sweet, diverse fruits, including berries, pineapple, lime, sweet citrus, lemon balm, and honey. The aftertaste is delicate with varied and persistent flavors. The overall flavor is truly rare, standing out among award-winning beans from various Central American countries, well worth trying!

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