GUATEMALA - EVELIO VILLATORO

Over the last few years, we have offered a couple different Guatemalan microlots and the feedback from you all has been amazing with a general consensus that you want more! Because of this we are excited to announce that we have an amazing, single family coffee from Huehuetenango for you to enjoy. This coffee was produced by Evelio Villatoro and is a great coffee for everyday drinking that is perfect with or without milk. This coffee is part of a program called Xinabajul which was established in 2013 by our importing partners, Coffee Shrub, who we worked with directly to select this lot.

For 8 years, this project has helped increase transparency of the Guatemalan coffees that Shrub imports, in turn creating a system where farmers are paid more for their work. This program is really cool and we are excited to be supporting it as we go into 2021 (we first bought coffee under this program in 2016 but are planning to offer these lots more consistently). 

In our correspondence with Dan @ Shrub, here’s his notes on this coffee: “We spent many hours at the cupping table sorting through small producer lots from the region. Evelio only submitted 5 samples this past harvest, and this is a blend of the best 11 bags from those lots.” We hope you enjoy this super limited microlot lot and although we purchased a majority of it (7 of the 11 bags, about 1000 lbs), we don’t expect this to be around for much more than a couple months :)