ABOUT THIS COFFEE:
Decaffeinated in Mexico using the Swiss Water Process. Cristal represents an amalgam of coffees from across Mexico's growing regions, including Veracruz, Oaxaca, and Chiapas. These coffees are mild in profile and affordable, which makes them a clean, easy-drinking single-origin offering.
Historically, Mexican coffee was viewed as an inexpensive, low-grown blender with cup characteristics including nuttiness, chocolate, and generally mild citric acid. Today, though, high-grown Mexican coffee has extremely interesting complex citric and malic acidity, balanced sweetness in the form of chocolate and toffee, and an overall clean cup.
The climate and altitude conditions are excellent for specialty coffee, and every year more efforts are made to not just find it but improve it, and of course protect it from dangers like leaf rust and ojo de gallo. Throughout the countryside, you find a number of nurseries hosting stronger, better varieties that will lead to a sustainable focus on quality and consistency. The diversity throughout the country leaves endless possibilities for new, exciting cup profiles. We have been thrilled to find taste characteristics from across the world present in coffees grown so close to home, and we're happy to discover more of what is possible.
