Mexico/Finca Nueva Linda

Tastes Like: Cocoa, Almond, Vanilla Bean

Region: Chiapas

Process: Washed

Altitude: 1250-1550 MASL

Finca Nueva Linda is a specialty-coffee estate managed by producer Juan Jose Moguel. It is located in the Sierra Madre mountains of southern Mexico, in the state of Chiapas. The farm shares a buffer with the Triunfo Biosphere Reserve, a 50,000-acre tropical cloud forest which helps to temper a changing climate and provide rich soil and clean water. El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve is one of the world’s most diverse forest reserves, containing Mesoamerica’s largest continuous cloud forest, and it serves as a refuge to thousands of plant and animal species.

Don Juan Jose depulps his coffee at Nueva Linda, using demucilaging machines to remove the fruit and sugar, then washes in clean water, and dries in the sun on patios or raised drying beds.