Mexican Chiapas

On the Southern most edge of Mexico, just before you get to Guatemala, is Chiapas (chee-ah-pass).  Once there you may ask the locals for a cup of cafe and they will give you a brew from of their home-grown beans.

The Chiapas is a mild cup that sports a dominant fruit-wine flavor.  Roasted just 60-seconds into the second-crack this bean's profile was just slightly Full-City roasted.  Here the flavor of the roast is obvious while the intrinsic flavor of the bean remains present.

While this bean is roasted a strong smoky-nut aroma is revealed making the roaster assume that nut will be present in the flavor however that flavor never materialized.  Only a sweet aroma that had a dry-wine effect was present.  Overall it was a clean cup that nosed sweet and sipped brightly a midst a panorama of floral notes.

Pluma - Don Edwardo

Mexico

You smell the lilacs in the late spring and you know that the world is alive... Yeah, this Pluma is sort of like that. However, it is the flavor of this brew that awakens the senses - not necessarily the aroma. The flavor invites you to life and blankets your taste-buds with a shawl that wards of the south wind that sometimes threatens a world of summer.

Oh how I wish I was in the business of roasting coffee, because this coffee would make you happy you were alive for another season of life.