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San Francisco Ozolotepec
Specs
Producers Smallholders of San Francisco Ozolotepec
Region San Francisco Ozolotepec, Sierra Madre, Oaxaca, Mexico
Harvest Summer 2025
Varieties Caturra & Bourbon
Process Washed
Altitude 1,800 masl
Importer Osito
San Francisco Ozolotepec
Producer Profile
This past March, we had the privilege of travelling to the Sierra Sur in Oaxaca. to visit the Ozolotepeques (San Juan, San Antonio, and San Francisco). These communities are remote— it took seven hours of driving to reach them—and each is unique. In San Francisco Ozoletepec we were met by dozens of producers, whose first language is Zapotec. They gathered to deliver samples to Thomas of Red Beetle Coffee Lab. Thomas paid each producer for their sample as he took down their names, a rare, if not unheard of practice. The coffees produced in San Francisco Ozoltepec, mostly old stock, low-yield Typica, come from tiny, forested plots that are managed using passively organic, traditional methods. You won’t see any fertilisation or much pruning or stumping here. Still, the coffees produced in the Ozoltepeques can be excellent, and show complex layers of sweetness and fruit expression.
Brewing San Francisco Ozolotepec
Recommended Use: ESPRESSO
Grind: Fine (within our espresso range)
Dose: 18g (for an 18g double basket)
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For best results we recommend resting your espresso for three weeks post-roast before brewing.
** We do not recommend using this coffee with Breville espresso grinders. These grinders are tested with darker coffee and do not always have the motor power to handle lighter roasted coffee at an espresso grind.
Oaxaca
Sitting right in between Mexico’s two other major coffee-growing regions Chiapas and Veracruz, Oaxaca produces some of the most distinctive coffees in Mexico. Coffee production in Oaxaca has not been modernized to the same extent as in its neighbouring regions, with many producers preferring traditional cultivation methods and coffee varieties.
Typica & Bourbon
Bourbon takes its name from Bourbon Island (now La Réunion), where it was introduced by French missionaries who had taken a few coffee seeds from Yemen in the 1700s. Along with Typica, Bourbon accounts for the basis of most of the world's coffee production today which is made up of Bourbon and Typica descendant varieties. Bourbon is known for its high-quality potential, susceptibility to disease and relatively low yields.
Like Bourbon, Typica made its way out of Yemen by way of colonisation. In this case, the Dutch transported seeds to their colonial holdings in South America in 1719, from there the variety made its way to Brazil and then to the West Indies. Eventually, the English brought Typica to the Caribbean, from there, they were sent to Central America, where they were widely dispersed.
Typica has very high quality potential at high altitudes in Central America. Unfortunately, it is highly susceptible to disease.
Washed
Transparency
IMPORTER | Osito |
FARMGATE PRICINGWhat's this?FOB: "Freight on board," usually the price paid to the coffee exporter for coffee ready to ship. This includes price paid to the producer as well as milling, warehousing and transportation costs plus any intermediaries' fees and export costs. Farmgate: the price paid by the exporter or other buyer to the producer or producer organization. | -- |
FOB PRICING | $-- |
SUBTEXT PAID | $6.80 USD per lb |
LOT SIZE | Total lot size of 1,750 kg. Subtext purchased the full lot. |
RELATIONSHIP LENGTH | Osito has been working with the producers of San Francisco Ozolotepec for four years. This is the second year we have purchased this lot. |
QUALITY | Subtext cupping score of 85 |