Mexico El Triunfo

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El Triunfo has been such a consistently smooth and balanced coffee over the years, so its become a repeat offering. We love its approachability in flavor as we taste notes of rich chocolate, a creamy almond butter, and s’mores. Try it yourself!

The cup quality from the Cesmac Cooperative has been solid year after year. They commercialize their coffee through a third party, allowing them to do what they do best—produce solid coffee, which they sure can do because they have all the conditions such as heirloom coffee varieties (Bourbon, Typica), great altitude (1200–1750masl), and passionate coffee growers who want to produce high-quality lots. The location is extremely close to the Guatemala border and Huehuetenango.

Cafe Imports, along with the cooperative, invested in a quality-control program. An assessment was made to clearly determine which factors most impact of cup quality such as: varieties, fertilization, picking, processing, and lot selection. This ongoing assessment assists the cooperative in lot selection in order to increase the overall quality of the coffee they are producing and gives feedback to the producers on their quality.

CESMACH has nearly 500 active members and has been managed by Sixto Bonilla. Sixto is very quality-focused and driven to empower his cooperative community with the tools and resources to produce better quality.

The farms of CESMACH are located in the buffer zone of El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve, which is in the highlands of the Sierra Madre. it is one of the most diverse forest reserve areas in the world and contains Mesoamerica'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.