Description
Terruno Nayarita provides ultimate traceability into the lots, check out all the details here!
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This is a co-op that holds a special place in our hearts. This coffee is from 100% traceable, directly traded micro-lots. Each bag is uniquely identified with a bar code and a serial number which can be used to see everything behind its production, click here to check it out. Gathered around an extinct volcano, Cerro San Juan, a committed group of 260 cooperative coffee farmers are working together to produce arguably the best coffee in Mexico. Terruño Nayarita coffees come from heirloom trees. The word ‘Terruño’ means ‘homestead’. These are farmers that take great pride in their coffee. This is the top screen-size/grade from the Terruño Nayarita Co-op.
San Cristobal Coffee Importers takes great care to find and produce excellent coffee, making sure farmers use safe, sustainable shade techniques and provide a fair wage to the workers. Check out their webpage:
San Cristobal
Tasting Notes:
A cool cup of Mexican coffee with unique (to Mexico) processing: nor your average Mexican tastes. We liked it best medium to dark roasted: nice and sweet cup upfront with wonderful aromatics, fuller bodied and less acidic. Small hints of a fruitiness especially at lighter roasts. Bakers chocolate, malt, smoke and a bit of nuttiness comprise the darker tones. Very dependent on roast level, lighter roasts will be filled with more fruity and citric notes balancing with a nuttier, dryer, chocolaty undertone. Medium roasts are balanced and bring forward the more nutty and chocolaty character, muting the fruity and lemony/floral tones, they are still there in the cup, just more in the aftertaste than the first thing to hit your taste buds.
Roasting Notes:
A nice medium roast is the way to go, can lean it a little lighter or darker depending on personal taste. Roasts pretty even for a natural, is a bit higher chaff, but would still make the easier to roast category.
John G Turner –
Very nice cup. I roasted to 2nd crack. Chocolate. Berry. I will buy again.
John Mitchell (verified owner) –
Is an ok cup. I have roasted to just the end of first crack, then between first and second crack and finally to the start of second crack. All were just ok, nothing special. I expected more from this natural. It’s not bad, just not great.