Tierra de Mi Padre: Mujeres de Cofradía y Malinal, Natural, Mexico

Name: Tierra de Mi Padre: Mujeres de Cofradía y Malinal Region: El Malinal, Cofradia de Chocolon, Nayarit, México Tasting Notes: pear, raspberry, green grape, hazelnut Producers: Las Mujeres de Cofradía y Malinal  Process: Natural Varieties: Typica, Sarchimor, Mundo Novo, Bourbon, Catuai, Costa Rica, Caturra Altitude: 900 MASL

Brewing Specs: For pourovers, a 1:16.6 ratio offers clarity, sweetness, and a full-bodied cup. Espresso will benefit from a 1:2 - 1:2.1 ratio to bump up acidity without sacrificing body.

 

This year is especially meaningful for Tierra de Mi Padre. For the first time, we have not one, but two lots from two different women’s groups in Nayarit, México.

What makes this even more special is how it came to be. The first women’s group has been doing so well that another group of women decided to come together and organize their coffee to enter the specialty market as a women-produced lot. Hearing this filled us with so much joy because it is a reminder that our repetitive purchases create rooted reverberations that extend beyond a single harvest and into more opportunities for women in Nayarit.

More from owner Areli Barrera de Grodski: In 2015 when co-owner Leon and I went to visit family in Tepuzhuacan, Nayarit, we reached out to Jim Kosalos (founder of Cafés Sustentables de México and San Cristobal Coffee) to see if we could visit the farms where that first bag of coffee I saw was from. Jim graciously invited us to visit, and so Leon, my uncle, and I took the bus to Tepic and met up with Jim. He handed us the keys to a Volkswagon Bug and up the mountain we went. 

He showed us around the washing station, the drying stations, and through the small towns where the coffee was grown. We were able to meet a lot of the producers and workers from those stations and got to hear their perspectives and needs in the value chain firsthand. It truly helped shape our approach to sourcing, one in which we consider the wide array of coffee grown in one farm, lot, or community and figure out a place for all of it while taking into account our own standards of quality.

We started roasting coffee in 2017, and have been roasting coffee from Nayarit since 2019. This year marks our seventh year of having the privilege to purchase 11 bags of a naturally processed coffee from A NEW group of women from this community in Nayarit and I am so excited to share it with our community. It feels so rooted and ancestral to be working with this coffee and I am forever grateful to Jim, Devorah, and their team, as well as the producers from Grupo Terruño Nayarita who allowed us into their space and opened up to us about the struggles of producing coffee and how we can support them.

All coffee from San Cristobal Coffee is 100% traceable.

https://www.trackyourcoffee.com/show_data_work.php?entry=GTN9904000

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Bags are 12oz/340g, 2#, 5#

Tierra de Mi Padre: Mujeres de Cofradía y Malinal is a natural-processed coffee sourced from the El Malinal and Cofradía de Chocolon regions of Nayarit, Mexico. Produced by Las Mujeres de Cofradía y Malinal at 900 masl, this lot is roasted by Little Waves Coffee Roasters. The cup profile features notes of pear, raspberry, green grape, and hazelnut.

In the broader context of coffee production, natural-processed coffees—where the fruit remains on the bean during drying—often develop distinct, fruit-forward characteristics that differ significantly from washed counterparts. Understanding these processing methods is essential for identifying how specific techniques influence the final cup. To better categorize these complex flavor profiles, enthusiasts often refer to a flavor wheel to help articulate the nuances found in diverse origins like Nayarit. This specific offering highlights the collaborative efforts of the women producers in these Mexican communities, showcasing the unique terroir of their harvest.