Mexican Oaxaca Pluma -Tres Oros

Sweet Maria's Coffee

Oaxaca Plumas are getting harder to find … well, good ones are. The low prices paid to farmers just doesn't make it worthwhile to put care into the agronomy, milling, or preparation of coffee for shipment. Should we expect farmers to do all the extra work to hand-pick, pulp, ferment-wash, patio-dry, mill, hand-sort and bag our quality coffee just because of pride and tradition? The romance of coffee is nice, but it has its limits. Luckily, we work with importers who, while not offering all fair trade coffees, pay fair prices and have long-term relationships with growers and exporters. This ensures sustainable prices, premiums paid for quality coffee, and enough money to do it again next year and the year after, into the future. The Tres Oros is a brand, meaning not a specific farm but rather a family of farms in the Oaxaca highlands that are milled together, and that sell under this name. Many of these farms produce too little to sell their coffee separately. We cupped various lots and this one was really the best. The preparation on it lets an occasional odd bean through, but the overall appearance is really excellent, and most importantly it's clean and sweet in the cup, with vanilla, maple, caramel and hazelnut hints (depending on the roast treatment it gets). The body is light but it seems to intensify as the cup cools. It is very delicious as a mild-sweet straight espresso, aromatic and with a great aftertaste. For that I keep the roast towards the lighter espresso spectrum (N. Italian) by letting it go about 20 seconds in to 2nd crack. For brewed coffee I like this right at 2nd crack, though many use these coffees in blends as a dark roast component.

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