Roasters Choice Espresso Coffee Selection

Ixhuatlán del Café serves as the heart of the Santuario Project in Mexico, featuring a fully integrated processing facility that includes wet and dry mills, greenhouses, drying areas, a coffee garden, laboratory, and warehouse—all dedicated to achieving the highest quality standards.

At the Ixhuatlán centre, small producers from Veracruz collaborate to produce and isolate only the most exceptional coffee lots, which are then processed under the expert guidance of the Santuario project’s processing managers.

Quality begins at the farm level, where Brix measurements, selective picking, thorough cleaning, and meticulous cherry sorting are key factors in ensuring top-notch coffee. Cherries are harvested at different ripeness stages, depending on the processing method, to help control and enhance the final cup quality.

In the processing centre, every stage of post-harvest is monitored closely in the state-of-the-art, impeccably clean facilities. This allows precise control of fermentation, ensuring consistent and stable results. Each lot is slowly shade-dried on African beds, with fans and extractors used to maintain optimal temperature and humidity throughout the process. The result is an exceptionally clean coffee with great clarity and a long, smooth finish.

Cherries are harvested once they reach 24 Brix and are soaked for 2 hours. The initial fermentation lasts 72 hours using Mossto, followed by depulping, leaving 20% mucilage on the seeds. A second fermentation with Mossto takes place for 48 hours. Afterward, the cherries are sun-dried on African beds for 22 days, followed by a 6-day shade rest for final humidity stabilization.

Tasting:  Juicy Cherry & Apricot complemented by a touch of Honey with a silky smooth finish.

This exceptional micro-lot from the New Kiriti Farmers Cooperative in Kenya’s Mathioya District is one of those rare coffees that’s too good to pass up.   It has all the iconic qualities of a great Kenyan coffee: bold, intense fruit flavours, with an incredibly clean profile and a crisp, bright finish.

The Gondo factory, run by the New Kiriti Farmers Cooperative with around 730 members, ensures quality from start to finish. The cherries are picked and delivered to the factory the same day, where they’re carefully hand-sorted and selected before de-pulping. Using fresh water from the nearby Kananahu stream, the ripe cherries are washed and then sun-dried on raised beds for the perfect finish.

Tasting:  Fruity - Syrupy Plum, tart StoneFruit and a hint of Caramel.