Sourcing Details:
This lot comes from a new sourcing partner for Royal called APG Coffee, located in Veracruz, Mexico. APG is not new to coffee exporting. Rather, it was founded more than 30 years ago by Antonio Perez Galvan, hence the initials APG that form the name of the company. But things are changing at APG thanks to a pair of great grandchildren, Ernesto Perez and his sister Givette who have created strategies for lot separation to bring forward specialty lots. And Royal is pleased to be the beneficiary of some amazing coffee from the Veracruz region.
This particular lot comes from a partnering farm called Finca Huehuetepan located in the highlands of Cosautlán de Carvajal region. APG works with the farm owner, MarĂa del Rosario Irais Valdivia Ortiz, a trailblazing woman in the coffee industry who consistently deliveres award-winning coffee, which includes a handful of top finishes in Mexico’s Cup of Excellence. Finca Huehuetepan has 19 hectares, with 16 dedicated to coffee cultivation and 3 preserved as native oak forest.
Processing Details
Cherries are meticulously sorted and floated to remove underripe and damaged coffee before depulping. Depuled coffee undergoes an extended fermentation process of up to 200 hours in a sealed environment with pH and temperature controls to promote optimum flavor profiles. After fermentation, the coffee skips the washing stage (honey processing) and is slowly dried on raised beds with a light layer of mucilage attached to the parchment. The dried coffee is stored in Grainpro bags until it is time to mill. The milling and preparation is done at the APG dry mill, meaning the coffee enjoys personal care from farm to export. The APG dry mill is also recognized for its attention towards preparing specialty lots and has been selected to mill Cup of Excellent winning lots.
