Mexican Terruño Nayarita – El Malinal – Natural Processed

Description

Terruno Nayarita provides ultimate traceability into the lots, check out all the details here!

Want to know why we think Terruño Nayarita is so cool? Check out our new blog post about them. 

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

This lot is fully traceable at this website.

Average Altitude 721 m

Tasting Notes:
A cool cup of Mexican coffee with unique (to Mexico) processing that leaves it far from the normal Mexican cup profile.  Nice and sweet upfront with fruity aromatics, hints of more citric fruit in the cup especially at lighter roasts. Bakers chocolate, malt, smoke and a bit of nuttiness comprise the darker tones.  Very dependent on roast, lighter roasts will be filled with more citric floral notes and a nutty dry chocolate undertone, medium roasts are balanced and bring out some hints of darker chocolate, with the acidity/floral tones greatly muted. Darker roasts pick up an almost barrel aged tones like you would find in beer or scotch and turn a bit smoky.

Roasting Notes:
A nice full city roast we thought to be the best. Works very nicely at the city to full city roasts level. Way dark tends to get a pretty funky twinge, we recommend the Washed Processed for into 2nd crack roasts.