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Thursday, August 25, 2005 -----

Mexican Coffee

Coffee arrived in Mexico at the start of the nineteenth century, although it wasn'texported in significant quantities until the 1870s. The Mexicans themselves consume over half the coffee produced in their country, with the US being the largest foreign customer, receiving over three-fourths of the exported coffee.

The coffee-producing regions of Veracruz and Chiapas account for 70% of theMexican coffee crop, with another 10% coming from Puebla and the remainder from other states, among them fertile Oaxaca. Nearly all of the coffee growers in Mexico work on farms of 25 acres or less, a far cry from the real and imagined coffee plantations of yesteryear. The finest grade of Mexican coffee is "altura," which means "high-grown." Wherecoffee is concerned, higher always means better, and the high-grown coffees of Mexico are considered very high-quality indeed and among the finest grown in the Americas.

::  Posted by: Bello Montana Roasters  at 8:15 AM
  

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