Your highway pit stop to the best Organic Mexican coffee around...right here! Excited to offer an exclusive taste-peek into a small-scale, community operation which has no parallel in Central America in terms of traceability. Tepic, Nayarit State, on the west coast of Mexico above Guadalajara, has a near-perfect microclimate for coffee and many other agricultural products. 
El Cuarenteño is a rural community located in the foothills of Sierra de San Juan, just west of Tepic. The area was initially settled in 1910, established as the center of a wealthy landowner's farm. Several years later, the owner received petitions from his workers wanting to buy pieces of his land, but he declined their offer preferring instead to lease the property. In 1939 the Mexican government passed an agrarian reform resolution allowing the formation of Ejidos*.  The following year the community of El Cuarenteño was granted an endowment of 3,500 hectares to form their own Ejido.
The community of El Cuarenteño produces both organic and conventional coffee.  CAFESUMEX has relationships with three different societies in the community: PROCAA, BASILIO, and RIVIERA, two of which have their own wet mill processing facilities. Currently El Cuarenteño has about 840 hectares of coffee in production at altitudes between 900 and 1400 meters (2900 to 4600 ft). The landscape provides a beautiful panorama and breathtaking views of the famous “Three Marias Islands” on the Pacific Ocean.
*An Ejido is a community comprised of communal lands designated for agricultural production. Each Ejidatario (joint land owner/farmer) has individual rights to a parcel of land or parcela, these rights can continue indefinitely and be passed on to their children, as long as the land is under consistent cultivation. With its ideology dating back to the calpulli system of the Aztecs, the Ejido system was established by the Mexican government in 1934. The establishment of an Ejido would begin with landless farmers who typically leased lands from wealthy landlords petitioning the government. The government would then consult with the landlord, and redistribute the land if the Ejido was approved. The Ejido would then be established, designating the original petitioners as Ejidatarios with individual rights to the land. Each Ejido is registered with Mexico's National Agrarian Registry (Registro Agrario Nacional). The Ejido system was eliminated in 1991, citing low productivity of communally-owned land. While existing Ejidos were not disbanded and remain to this day, it is largely viewed that their elimination was a direct result of the NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) of 1994.
From the same team which brought your the washed Peach Reserva #225 and natural Peaberry comes this superb natural process patio-select microlot, rested for 14 weeks, and a total of 59 30-kg. bags (just under 4000 lbs.) .The aggregated bean sizes (including peaberry)lead to a different roasting treatment and resulting cup profile.  This lightish roast is comparable to the treatment of our best East African naturals The predominant notes for pourover are Apple, Citrus, Chocolate, Syrupy, Floral, Caramel, Vanilla, Ripe Plum, and Peach. 
Completely traceable, all the technical details can be found at https://www.trackyourcoffee.com/tracker?entry=GTN9901009