GUATEMALA David Mendez

David Mendez is from Guatemala’s Huehuetenango region. In this remote region of northern Guatemala, David hand picks, hand pulps, and hand washes his coffee at his own farm. This represent one of the best coffees coming out of our El Templo-Huehuetenango sourcing program.

David Mendez's farms is at about 1800 meters, with warm days and chilly nights, drawing a deep sweetness into the coffee.

This micro-lot is a long time coming; we have been working with small scale independent farmers for over a decade as part of our Fair For All sourcing program. The coffee from David Mendez exemplify the values of this program, adding tangible quality of life improvements that allow for investment and development at the farm level that now produce micro-lot grade coffees.