Mexico | Oaxaca | Geisha

MEXICO OAXACA GEISHA

• Origin: Mexico
• Region: Santo Domingo Cacalotepec, Sierra Norte, Oaxaca
• Altitude: 1100 – 1350 MASL
• Farm: Yuu-Chula
• Farmer: Rebeca Chávez Martínez and Felipe Vega Altamirano
• Cultivar: Geisha
• Process: Washed

Rebeca Chávez Martínez and Felipe Vega Altamirano are a married couple.

They met in the United States, where both were searching for a better future. However, missing their families and homeland, they eventually decided to return to Mexico. With the money they had saved in the U.S., they purchased plots of land with coffee plants.

Although Rebeca comes from a coffee-growing family — her mother still harvests her own coffee to this day — she had very little knowledge about the process. But she says that was actually a good thing, because she didn’t have any bad habits and was able to learn how to harvest coffee selectively and manage controlled processes from the beginning.

Her husband Felipe is very supportive. He is passionate about fermentation, the mountains, and working with coffee. It’s his true vocation.