Free Local Delivery and Pickup. Free P&P on all postal orders over £25

Mexico Cafe El Zapoteco
Mexico Cafe El Zapoteco
Mexico Cafe El Zapoteco
Mexico Cafe El Zapoteco
Mexico Cafe El Zapoteco
Mexico Cafe El Zapoteco
Mexico Cafe El Zapoteco
Mexico Cafe El Zapoteco
Mexico Cafe El Zapoteco
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, Mexico Cafe El Zapoteco
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, Mexico Cafe El Zapoteco
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, Mexico Cafe El Zapoteco
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, Mexico Cafe El Zapoteco
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, Mexico Cafe El Zapoteco
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, Mexico Cafe El Zapoteco
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, Mexico Cafe El Zapoteco
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, Mexico Cafe El Zapoteco
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, Mexico Cafe El Zapoteco

Mexico Cafe El Zapoteco

Vendor
Hampton Roast Coffee
Regular price
£8.00
Sale price
£8.00
Regular price
Sold out
Unit price
per 
Tax included. Shipping calculated at checkout.

Mexico Cafe El Zapoteco

White grape, grapefruit, milk chocolate

A zesty acidity with a crisp, sweet aftertaste. This complex coffee has notes of tropical fruit and citrus flavours, with undertones of grapefruit and white grape.

A little more info on this Coffee...

Origin: Mexico
Region: Santo Domingo Cacalotepec, Sierra Juarez, Oaxaca

Estate: Cafe El Zapoteco is a group of some 180 coffee producing families led by Romulo Chavez in the Sierra Juárez

Elevation: 1300-1700 MASL

Process: Washed

Varietal: Typica, Mundo Novo, and Bourbon

Importer: Raw Material

Certification: Specialty  *Maximum Impact Coffee

Cafe El Zapoteco

Is an association of 180 coffee producing families from three towns in the Sierra Juarez. The Sierra Juarez, as well as being the birthplace of Benito Juarez- Mexico’s first President of indigenous origin- is a temperate mountain range to the north of Oaxaca city.

Cafe El Zapoteco is led by Romulo Chavez. Romulo has been working for several years now to establish direct relationships with buyers in order to obtain higher prices for the producers of Cafe El Zapoteco. He has also fostered a very strong communal outlook for the association and its producers.

The central point of the Cafe El Zapoteco cooperative is the town of Santo Domingo Cacalotepec. This name is composed of both Spanish and Zapotec. Cacalotepec means ‘mountain of the raven’, which you can see depicted on the bags from this producer group, as a raven with a coffee cherry in its mouth.

Most members of the association are of Zapotec heritage and speak Spanish as second language after Zapoteco. There is a very strong, communal aspect to Cafe El Zapoteco across its three towns that is deeply rooted in the historical ties of the community to the region.

Rather than employ pickers during the harvest, when a member’s coffee is ready to be picked, several neighbours will help the producer to harvest their coffee. Instead of payment, the producer whose coffee is being harvested is expected to cook lunch for everyone and in turn, to help pick the coffee of those who helped them when their coffee is ready.

Farm sizes range from 0.5 to 5 hectares but the average member has less than one hectare of coffee and produces between 100 and 150 kilos of parchment per year. The coffees are pulped and fermented, often in hand built, wooden tanks, then dried on petates, traditional woven mats.

 

Fun Fact

 

You will notice that we have not provided farm names for these coffees. In Mexico, farm names for small scale producers such as these are very rare. This is because the average producer here owns and works on several small fields scattered around their village. Each village has its own structure for organising coffee production. 

Some are organised as private entities, where land is bought, sold, and passed onto children. Others are entirely communal, where parcels of land are shared and tended as a collective. Around 90% of the land in Oaxaca is communal. Some of the only private lands in the Oaxacan coffee regions are in the Sierra Sur and Mazateca.

To enhance domestic incomes, outcomes for women, and to motivate a transition toward more eco-friendly farming techniques, in Colombia we: Establish cupping labs, and concentrate training toward women in the area Create and join community associations, invest in infrastructure and training to enhance quality, and bring their coffee to market. Place quality control personnel and equipment at parchment buying points to advance consistency. Offer one-on-one guidance to wet mill operators and producers on optimal techniques. Acquire for steady prices based on coffee production costs and roaster prices to raise profits for producers.

* Maximum Impact Coffee

There are multiple aspects of impact to consider. At Raw Material, they are concerned about the impact across three main dimensions, weighted in this order:

1. Economic impact

Enabling economic freedom for people working in coffee. In particular, those for whom coffee is a large proportion of their household income. They focus where improvement in income levels, volatility, or payment timing will most likely have a significant influence on wellbeing. Enabling this economic impact through an improved system is the core focus of our work, measured at both the household and community level.

2. Social impact

Contributing to the development of and sharing of knowledge across all participants in the coffee sector, to enable improved inclusive income opportunities and community wellbeing. For example, working with producers to improve production practices; training cuppers and graders in remote regions to recognise quality early and empower marginalised groups; working with roasters to adopt buying practices that include stable prices and long-term planning.

3. Environmental impact

The long-term sustainability of the coffee sector, both economically and environmentally. Through their work, Raw Material can help develop and share environmentally sustainable practices. These are designed in the context of local constraints, including transition, hidden, and ongoing costs, in order to improve viability and the likelihood of long-term adoption.

RFA status.


To keep up to date with all this Hampton Roast Coffee, check us out on our social channels: FacebookInstagram & LinkedIn.

To view our entire Coffee Collection, click here.