Mexico Puebla Lucio Perez

COFFEE NAME: Mexico Puebla Lucio PerezROAST: Light TASTING NOTES: Tasting notes of red raisin, sweet tobacco, grapefruit REGION: Peubla, Mexico FARMER: Ocoteno VARIETY: Marsellesa ELEVATION: 1800 MASL Coffee Roots Lucio Perez has spent his whole life producing coffee in Totomoxtla, a small community in the Cuautempan municipality in the distant Northeastern Sierra of Puebla. Lucio's farm Ocoteno is named for the Nahuatl word referring to the small pine trees that grow there in abundance. Ocoteno occupies 3.15 hectares, planted with pure Marsellesa variety. Don Lucio uses the native leguminous ice cream bean trees for both shade and nitrogen retention. Coffee processing on Ocoteno begins with harvest, done by hiring "cortadores" (harvesters) and with the support of neighbors. The coffee is then fermented for 72 hours in cement tanks and dried in raised beds for 4-10 days depending on climate. Since trucks can’t access the farm, Lucio and his family transport the coffee using “mecapale