Tasting Notes: Raspberry | Dark Chocolate | Sweet Spice
Product Overview
- Origin : Mexico
- Province: Oaxaca
- Region: Costa / Sierra Del Sur
- District: Pochutla
- Municipality: San Vicente Yogondoy
- Producer: Various Smallholder Farms 3-4 hectares
- Roast Level: Medium / Full City
- Medium Body, medium acidity
- Variety: 100% Arabica, Typica Pluma Substrain
- Process: Washed
- Elevation: 1500-1700 m above sea level
- Fermentation: 18-24 hours
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Drying time: 6-10 days sun dried on hand woven petate mats
- Shade grown
Oaxaca San Vicente Yogondoy Downloadable pdf spec sheet
About San Vicente Yogondoy
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High in Oaxaca’s Sierra Sur mountains lies San Vicente Yogondoy, a lush, forested community where coffee thrives beneath a canopy of native shade trees. The steep, ocean-facing slopes overlook the Pacific, kissed by cooling coastal breezes and defined by distinct rainy and dry seasons that shape the coffee’s character.
Getting to Yogondoy isn’t easy — five hours from Oaxaca City by road, then another two to three hours on foot or mule. During harvest, families hike deep into the hills to live in small shelters beside their farms, moving their freshly picked cherries back to town by mule over several trips.
The name Yogondoy comes from the Zapotec word for “River of Bees.” Indigenous Zapotec traditions remain strong here — many farmers still keep beehives alongside their coffee for honey and pollination. Most continue to grow the region’s beloved Pluma variety, a local Typica mutation that’s been cultivated here for over 80 years.
With new generations of young farmers taking up the craft, and the ancient communal practice of Tequio — shared work for the good of the community — still guiding life in the village, Yogondoy’s future looks as rich as its soil. The coffee farms brim with plant diversity: shade trees like Cuachepil, Cuil, and avocado provide food, medicine, and natural fertilizer.
It’s one of the few regions in Mexico where both yield and cup quality rise year after year — proof that care, tradition, and a love for the land still run deep in the River of Bees.
Available in 12 oz whole bean stand up pouches