Guatemala

With Caturra, Bourbon, and Sarchimor varietals, this coffee is pleasantly acidic and full bodied with notes of Caramel, Chocolate, Green Apple, Watermelon.

We met the producers of Café de la Esperanza through some friends and made our first trip down to Chajúl Guatemala in the fall of 2010 to spend some time with them. About a dozen Ixil producers and their families grow this coffee between 1300-1600 MASL in the mountainous Quiche region.

The Ixil people are of Mayan descent and victims of a genocide during the decades long Guatemalan Civil War. Their region of Guatemala, out of which operated the Guerrilla Army of the Poor, was targeted by the State who burned or otherwise destroyed hundreds of villages and disappeared and massacred an estimated 200,000 indigenous people.

We've supported the Cafe de la Esperanza Cooperative for over a decade now, and the higher price they receive through direct trade relationships has enabled them to invest in education, healthcare, and infrastructure in an area of the country that was not only abandoned by the State, but destroyed in retribution for and fear of their defiance.