Cafeólogo
Cafeólogo is a project founded by Jesús Salazar, focusing mainly on indigenous coffee growers in the area around San Cristobal de las Casas in central Chiapas, the southernmost region of Mexico. San Cristobal is located rather close to the border with Guatemala, and is in fact only around 200 km or about a 5 hour drive from San Marcos Huista in Huehuetenango, where we have purchased several coffees in the past.
Starting in 2010, Jesús initially worked with 4 small producers, but soon many producers in the area were curious about the project and the prices they could be paid, through their newly found access to the speciality market. To be able to accept so many more farmers into the project, Jesús realised that quality control would become very difficult. For many years, Cafeólogo added value to each producer’s work through careful processing, building community wet mills to process coffee from surrounding farmers.
Cerro Brujo
In 2011, Cafeólogo were able to purchase their first plot of land, in the central valley of Chiapas. The mountain range where this plot sits is known to indigenous groups as Cerro Brujo, the witch mountain; they always felt something magical in this landscape. The biodiversity found in this high altitude cloud forest is unique, home to several species of flora and fauna not seen elsewhere in Mexico. As Jesús expanded the land, he retained conservation as the key pillar of his work here.
The plot now spans 240 hectares, but less than 10% of this area is used for production of coffee, planted sparsely with the Marsellesa varietal. The rest is left to the forest, allowing a complex native biodiversity to spread, maintaining the rare cloud forest environment.
The careful natural processing of this lot, along with an anaerobic pre-fermentation and Cafeólogo’s expertise, leads to a cup with complex fruit notes, with a dominant character of stewed blackberry, all on a base of rich dark chocolate.
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