This year's Las Cotorras coffee was grown near the town of Siltepec in the Chiapas region of Mexico. For the first three years that we roasted Las Cotorras, it was made up from a collection of coffees from various smallholders around Chiapas, but this year it comes from the work of one farmer, Uber Velázquez.

Coffee in Chiapas has been cultivated mainly by smallholders, who are usually descendants of Indigenous tribes. This is a result of the policies of the Zapatistas, who regulate farm size in order to protect indigenous rights to land access. Sr. Velázquez's farm, Finca Gracias a Dios, has a total of 5 hectares, or 12 acres. He plants, harvets and prepares the coffee by hand. This smallscale production allows him to oversee every quality step of the way and deliver an impecible product.