Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of For the Love of Coffee, a weekly blog about all things coffee exclusively for the employees of Vienna Coffee.

For those of you who were not at the monthly VCH meeting last night, I gave a brief presentation at the meeting about this amazing coffee, but want to go deeper and cover more ground here in the blog. As of 2023 Mexico is the 9th largest producer of coffee in the world* producing over 515 Million pounds of coffee annually. Mexico is the world’s second-largest producer of organic coffee (Peru is #1). Approximately 17% of all coffee produced in Mexico is certified organic.

*Source https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/coffee-producing-countries

This beautiful coffee is grown and processed in and around a nature preserve in the southern region of Chiapas, Mexico. The El Triunfo Biosphere is one of the most diverse forest reserve areas in the world and contains South America’s largest cloud forest, as well as a protected natural environment for thousands of plant and animal species. All of the coffee produced here is shade-grown.

The Sierra Azul Cooperative is a cooperative of over 100 small coffee farmers operating in this area who are dedicated to environmental protection and producing very high-quality coffee. The average size of the coffee farm in the cooperative is 5-12 acres. This focus on quality is clearly represented in the end product.

Traditional flavor profiling characteristics of coffees produced in Mexico are described as light to medium-bodied, soft, balanced, and sweet. Cooperative coffees, particularly from the Chiapas region may be more intense and bold overall with a savory edge to the sweetness due to various processing methods employed. Common aroma & flavor notes include-  Roasted nut, chocolate or cocoa, brown sugar, cedar, malted grain, & berry.  

Here at Vienna Coffee, we roast our single-origin Organic Mexico on the lighter side of the spectrum to a medium-light roast. Tasting notes described on the label are Cocoa, Hazelnut, and Blackberry.

This coffee is also a full 60% of our organic Thunderhead Espresso bend. We blend it pre-roast with our organic Sumatra and roast it to a medium roast to reach the perfect flavor profile that our thousands of customers and client cafes have come to love in their daily Cappuccinos and Lattes. My favorite is the Thunderhead Americano. I highly recommend it!

I hope you all will take pride in knowing that every single day we are serving our customers only the highest quality coffee, coming from a group of coffee producers who care deeply about their natural environment and who receive a fair wage for their product. Please take the opportunity this month to try this outstanding coffee and please let me know your thoughts, I would love to hear them!

It’s a GREAT day for coffee!

~Matt~