Mexico

Top coffees in Mexico can be a world unto themselves. Which is no wonder given Mexico’s southern highlands unique terroir, its high latitude, and the bourbon and typica cultivars that growers have kept alive for generations. Each year, we receive coffees luxuriously caramel-like with cacao nib complexity, citrus and stone fruit flavors, light florals, fresh cream and nutmeg. Royal has been buying coffee in Mexico since the country’s heyday of output in the 1980s, Finca San Carlos in Oaxaca being one of our company’s longest contiguous relationships anywhere. Many of our tried-and-true cooperative offerings have been annual inventory for us since the 1990s when the coops themselves were formed. More recently, Royal has deepened a relationship with one of the most fearless and inspiring independent smallholder representatives we can think of: Rosalba Cifuentes of Mayan Harvest in Chiapas.