Medium Roast Single Origin Subscription
If you love medium roast single origins, and are open to trying a new one every few months without even having to think about it, this is the subscription for you!
Our single origins rotate every few months according to seasonality and availability. With this subscription, you will always receive a medium roast single origin coffee, and depending on your delivery frequency, you may receive the same coffee several deliveries in a row until we release a new medium roast single origin. You will receive an email notification ahead of any changes, and if you have a pay-as-you-go subscription, you will be able to skip or cancel your subscription if you aren't interested in the new coffee. Learn more about our current medium roast single origin below!
Our Current Medium Roast Single Origin
If you subscribe now, this will be the coffee in your first shipment, and will continue to be the coffee you receive in this subscription until we rotate to our next medium roast single origin. Single origin subscribers will be notified by email when the coffee is about to change, and will get all details of the new coffee, with enough time to make any desired changes to their subscription plan.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/141684714Â
This medium roast coffee has the soft, round sweetness of creamy nougat, with nutty almond and pecan flavors, a hint of cocoa, and mellow acidity providing a nice cognac-like finish with notes of apricot and clove.
