Espressoamericana - Alejandro Martinez, Mexico

This coffee brings the unique and remarkable flavor of Veracruz to your cup. This is NOT a Central American coffee. This is a North American coffee and the results in the cup bear that out. Veracruz is our favorite coffee region in Mexico, and soon it will be yours as well. This is a washed coffee but with a special experimental extended 36 hour fermentation which gives it a bit more sparkle and loads of sweetness.

Same coffee as the H1 Centroamericano, but with a longer Maillard development time for sugar browning and chocolate development.

The new F1 Hybrid program in Mexico, Costa Rica and Guatemala is producing miraculous coffees. These new cultivars have been created by splicing varietals from the East Timor line with select Ethiopian Landrace varietals. The results are stunning. They are highly resistant to many of the ravages of climate change including fungus, insects, drought and higher temperatures. They also have higher yeields with moderate input costs and all of that they also taste absolutely fantastic. 

This coffee is the H1 also know as Centroamericano. A first-generation (F1) hybrid originating from a cross between rust-resistant [T5296] (/varieties/t5296) and the Ethiopian landrace variety Rume Sudan. Centroamericano is resistant to coffee leaf rust, is extremely high yielding (in breeding evaluations, it showed production increases of 22–47% over the standard varieties in Central America). Centroamericano has also proven to have exceptional cup quality potential when well-managed at high altitudes. It was released in 2010 for farmers in Central America.The variety was created by a consortium including French research institute CIRAD, a regional network of national coffee institutes in Central America (PROMECAFE), and a coffee genebank in Costa Rica (CATIE). F1 hybrid varieties are still relatively new in coffee agriculture; only a handful have become commercially available to farmers in the last 15 years, and only in select countries.

The Martinez family has always lived in the Xalapa-Coatepec area in the state of Veracruz. The farm was established by his great- great-grandfather Antonio Martinez. The dream of Alejandro is to revive the coffee culture in Coatepec. He started to plant rust-resistant varieties always separated by plot so that he can compare the results of each plot both in productivity and quality. His coffee has been resulting very well lately, Marsellesa and Mundo Maya represent high quality with consistency for some years, and his first harvests of Anacafe and Obata represented good as well with more unique characters.