<p>White chocolate, dried cranberries and madeira wine. Country: Mexico Province: Oaxaca Elevation: 1,550 - 1,700 masl Variety: Pluma Hidalgo Processing: CM Natural Producer: Enrique Lopėz Sourced Through: Raw Material Coffee --- Enrique’s farm Finca Chelín is renowned for his high-quality lots, ranging is multitudes of experimental ferments of high cost and quality varietals. Enrique is highly influential in Oaxaca, and delivers educational training, talks, and access to buyers for other producers in the region. Esther Escamila for example, whose coffee Raw Materials also buy, has trained at Chelin. Enrique has been a vital link for RM and their partners Red Beetle in connecting us with producers across Sierra Sur. Enrique’s focus is creating a name for Oaxacan coffees, that are incredibly high quality, and delicious. For this lot cherries are picked very ripe (dark red - purple, ideally around 26°Brix). They then rest in carbonic maceration (anaerobically in a closed plastic tank) for 4 nights before drying. Drying is firstly for 4 days under direct sun, then under shade nets for roughly 30 days. About Raw Material's work in Mexico In Mexico, RM's work is based in Oaxaca and Chiapas. From afar, Mexico is a growing economic force, ranked 64th globally in GDP per capita. However, the coffee-producing states in southern Mexico face a very different economic reality. Oaxaca and Chiapas are the two poorest states in Mexico with poverty rates of 60-80% and extreme poverty rates of 20-40% Production yields have become dangerously low in these regions. Over the last ten years coffee leaf rust disease and the lack of financial or agricultural means to tackle it has reduced production by up to 90% in some regions. The average yield in Oaxaca is now just 100kg of parchment per hectare. For context, in Colombia, the average yield is 2,400kg per hectare. The vast majority of Mexico’s 500,000 coffee producers are smallholder farmers and have one hectare or less of land under coffe</p><p><strong>Origin:</strong> Colombia</p><p><strong>Process:</strong> Natural</p><p><strong>Tasting Notes:</strong> Chocolate, Plum, Wine</p>
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