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Organic Fair Trade
Organic Chiapas Mexican
Along with coffee produced in the
neighboring Mexican states of
Veracruz and Oaxaca, in the far
south of Mexico, Chiapas coffee
enjoys “denomination of origin”
status, similar to the legal regional
classifications of wine in Europe.
Colonists first brought coffee trees
to Mexico in 1796; Chiapas’ cool
rainforest highlands are dotted with
nineteenth century plantation
buildings as well as modern
haciendas for adventure tourists
exploring Mayan ruins along “the
Coffee Route.” Farmers and their
families often live in ejidos,
landholding cooperatives. From
here the farmers trek into the
mountains to harvest the coffee
cherries, which they port back down
in heavy sacks for hand sorting and
processing.
Tasting notes: nutty, notes of dark
chocolate, slight cinnamon
Sources: fairmountaincoffee.com,
visitmexico.com