Grapos MW Decaf

Mexico is the fifth largest coffee producer in the world and one of the foremost exporters of certified coffee (both organic and Fairtrade), but there is a lack of speciality grade production. In recent years, however, producers have formed collectives to rectify this. Many regions, including Chiapas, have the potential to produce exceptional speciality lots due to their high altitudes, agreeable climates and rich-coffee farming heritage.

 

GRAPOS are an organisation dedicated to helping smallholder farmers improve the way they grow, harvest, deliver, process and sell their cherries. Based in El Porvenir, translating as ‘the future’, GRAPOS and associated coffee growers are indeed working together towards a new wave of speciality coffee emerging from the region. In addition to growing high quality coffee, all smallholders are dedicated to an organic philosophy and ecosystem preservation of the nearby Triunfo Biosphere Reserve.

 

This organic philosophy importantly extends to their decaffeination process which uses the clearest and freshest water from the reserve to gently wash over the beans and remove the caffeine. This natural and organically certified decaffeination process ensures the complex flavour profile of this beautiful coffee stays intact whilst removing over 99.9% caffeine from the beans.

Farm	GRAPOS
Varietal	Bourbon & Typica
Processing	MW decaffeinated
Altitude	700-1600 meters above sea level
Owner	Smallholders
Region	Chiapas