Mexican Altura Veracruz – Natural Processed

Burman Coffee Traders

Details

Origin

Mexico

Process

Natural

Roast Suitability

Description

This Mexico Veracruz natural coffee comes from APG Coffee, a fourth-generation family operation based in Coatepec, Veracruz. The story goes back to 1920, when Antonio Pérez-Redondo Galvan (hence the initials APG) joined Arbuckle Coffee as an exporting agent in Coatepec, stamping his initials on the finest lots heading to the ports of New Orleans and Hamburg. The second generation built coffee machinery and the wet mill the family still uses, the third modernized that mill into the first ecological mill in Coatepec, and today the fourth generation, Ernesto Perez and his sister Givette, run the operation with a clear focus on lot separation and full traceability by farm, variety and process. Ernesto came back to Coatepec after college in the United States, took over the farm and the mill, and holds both Q Grader and Q Processing licenses. The family’s own farm, Finca Fatima, earned a Cup of Excellence Mexico award in 2019 with a score of 89.41 and again in 2021, and the APG dry mill was the one selected to prepare the winning lots of the 2022 Cup of Excellence Mexico, a year in which 14 of the 30 winning coffees came from Veracruz. Between the farms, the mill and the export side, APG works with more than 85 coffee growing families in Coatepec, providing technical assistance and agronomic consulting to help them rebuild soils and raise quality. Coatepec sits at around 1,200 masl right at the northern edge of the tropics, and that location shapes the coffee. It is a Pueblo Magico often called the coffee capital of Mexico, and harvest weather here is cool and misty, with long, cold nights that slow down cherry ripening, something local growers credit for the density of flavor in the cup. Veracruz is also one of the oldest coffee regions in Mexico: by the late 1800s Coatepec was already one of only three places in the state, along with Cordoba and Orizaba, with facilities to process coffee, and the whole state has held the Cafe Veracruz Denomination of Origin since 2000,