Happy Medium Roast Bundle
There's no compromises when it comes to these coffees! The hugely popular single origin coffee from Mexico's CESMACH Cooperative is stunningly smooth, as is our 5th State Espresso Blend—with extra berry-like flavors, too. Don’t let the “Espresso” in the name stop you from enjoying this coffee, either: 5th State is delicious no matter how you brew it, but we do love it especially for its beautiful crema and how well it pairs with milk for espresso-based drinks!
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Happy Medium Roast Includes
This organically grown Mexican coffee from the Fair Trade certified Campesinos Ecologicos de la Sierra Madre de Chiapas (CESMACH) is so smooth and almost too easy to drink with the soft, round sweetness of creamy nougat, nutty almond and pecan flavors, a hint of cocoa, and mellow acidity providing a nice cognac-like finish with notes of apricot and clove.
Roast Level: Medium
Tasting Notes: Nougat, Marzipan, Cognac
Varieties: Bourbon, Typica, Mundo Novo
Growing Altitude: 1,300 - 1,500 masl
Processing Method: Washed
Campesinos Ecologicos de la Sierra Madre de Chiapas (CESMACH) has nearly 500 active farmer members and has been managed by Sixto Bonilla since the early 2000s. Sixto is very quality-focused and driven to empower his cooperative community with the tools and resources to produce better quality.
The farms of CESMACH are located in the buffer zone of El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve, which is in the highlands of the Sierra Madre. It is one of the most diverse forest reserve areas in the world and contains Mesoamerica's largest cloud forest, as well as a protected natural environment for thousands of plant and animal species. All of the coffee produced here is shade-grown, and this particular lot of coffee is both organically grown and Fair Trade certified.
Cafe Imports and CESMACH, along with another cooperative, Finca Triunfo Verde (FTV), have invested in a quality-control program for their farmer members focused on different areas that impact cup quality such as: varieties, fertilization, picking, processing, and lot selection. They were already doing a great job but there are some areas that could use some tweaking with the invested help from Cafe Imports. The members of the cooperative have been extremely excited to be part of this program, and the plan is to train a certified Q Graderand establish a centralized cupping lab to aid in lot selection in order to increase the overall quality of the coffee they are producing and give feedback to the producers on their quality.
About twelve years ago, the CESMACH cooperative started a coffee nursery designed specifically to renew the crop lost to La Roya (coffee leaf rust disease). In 2015, CESMACH planted 700,000 trees from their nursery in the surrounding coffee producing communities of Sierra Madre de Chiapas to increase production and improve quality. You can view a short video from this project here: https://vimeo.com/141684714
Our flagship espresso blend is built to please the taste preference of all old school and new school espresso drinkers. This blend pairs wonderfully with milk and creates a beautiful crema, which is ideal for latte art, but it's also made to be absolutely delicious no matter which way you brew it!
We are currently tasting dark maple, brown butter, and blackberry in 5th State.
