Mexico - Chiapas Café De Mujeres is our exciting new single origin for the entire month of October. This coffee offers a bright acidity followed by delicate blossom aromas and a smooth chocolate body, great for a long black or sweet and delicate milk coffee.

Country: Mexico
Region: Chiapas
Producer: Rosalba Cifuentes, Mayan Harvest
Varietal: Bourbon / Typica
Altitude: 1,550 MASL
Process: Washed

Tasting Notes: Orange blossom, chocolate, citric acidity.

Bella Vista is a small municipality in the heart of the Sierra of Chiapas in the south of Mexico bordering the country of Guatemala. Its population is that of about 2000 people. It is filled with beautiful landscapes of green highlands and rich clay mineral soil. It is also about 200kg away from one of the largest hydroelectric power plants in Mexico, located in the Angostura Dam.

Rosalba Cifuentes Tovia, founder of Mayan harvest coffee works with producers who are family and neighbors in the town of Bella Vista in order to improve their harvesting and processing practices and in return to get more competitive prices for their coffee. Rosalba works tirelessly to provide a livelihood to its members by providing them with medical and dental assistance. Her organisation has grown to be around 100 producer, about 60 of which are women. She has intentionally divided her production into three coffee groups. Womens coffee or " Cafe De Mujeres " is a group of women farmers that reside in the municipality of Bella Vista.

This sector is in the regions of La Rinconada, El Progreso, Union Progreso and Barrio Montana communities. Rosalba expressed that in the area there is alot of " machismo " or male chauvinism and sadly this results in women being isolated. With this project in mind, she hopes to improve the image of the women producers by promoting their work.