Region: Tenango de Doria, Hidalgo, Mexico
Producer: Montze Olvera
Varietal: Caturra & Marsellesa
Process: Natural
Elevation: 1400 m.a.s.l.
Harvest: 2024
We Taste: Red fruits, brown sugar, semi-sweet chocolate
Montze Olvera
Sororidad
This coffee represents the continued work with direct trade partners Montze Olvera & José Juan Cabrera, whom we connected with via Instagram, hailing from Tenango de Doria, Hidalgo — a hidden gem among Mexico’s Tepehua-Otomí mountain range.
Finca Púrpura
This farm was inherited by Montze after taking the reins from her mother Mayra, who took over this farm after Mayra’s own father, Enrique Garrido Cuevas, passed away.
Aside from leading the ‘Las Adelitas’ project, a collective made up of 16 women and an additional 58 union members who identify as indigenous farmers & coffee producers, Montze also produces her own coffee through this farm, with the help of her husband José Juan.
Montze calls this farm her ‘safe violet space’, calling her coffees her resistance, resilience and way to advocate for her gender.
Sororidad
This is the first coffee we purchased that was processed by Montze herself. Sororidad, which translates to sorority, is the spirit with which Montze approaches producing specialty coffee - looking to create better living conditions for her and her community while taking care of the environment she is now responsible for.
In this process, cherries were harvested when they were a violet hue, then washed and placed in fermentation tanks for 5 nights. After dried and depulped, coffee was sun-dried in raised beds for 30 days. The coffee was rested at 2000 m.a.s.l. for 25 days.
