Toca, Espresso from Mexico

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The official name of the project in Mexico itself is "Tlapajti" - which means in the local Nahuátl language spoken in the project region: "Those who heal." The name came from a producer in the community herself. She said that she is now healing Mother Earth and therefore is "Tlapajti." In spring 2022, we started the Tlapajti project in Mexico with Ensambles Cafés Mexicanos.

What is the Toca project about?

First, a cooperative was established, which reconstituted itself in 2024. Now Ensambles is working to bring the producers to organic certification. The first producers achieved organic certification in spring 2025. The current roasted coffee is not yet organic certified. In 2024, we founded a Microbeneficio with the producers, Ensambles, and our friends at Black Hen Roastery and set it up as a co-investment. The Microbeneficio is a coffee processing facility. The producers built it and now operate it themselves. Now they can also offer the processing service to other producers in the region and diversify their activities. Next comes the gradual development of a small Biofábrica where the cooperative will produce its own organic fertilizer.

Why does the coffee taste the way it does?

The coffees from the region around Zongolica have medium to high body. The area around the Apixtepec community, where the producers live, is often shrouded in rain clouds that are pushed inland from the Atlantic. It is often cool, and the coffees ripen slowly. This slow growth gives the coffee its complexity, a citrusy-delicate acidity and a high base sweetness. The soft texture comes from careful cherry selection.

How do we roast this coffee?

We roast the Toca as a 30 kg batch in our roaster, so we use the drum to full capacity. With 15 minutes of roasting time, the coffee is one of our longest roasts. This emphasizes the more classic notes like rock sugar. The development time is 15%. We start with a Soak, so we keep the gas at minimum for 1 minute before increasing to 70% power. After that we let the coffee and the roaster do their own work and only intervene again at 10 minutes, gradually reducing the gas.

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All our coffees can be ordered in the form of Coffee Mail. This reduces the postage for 250g of coffee from CHF 8.5 to CHF 2.5. It is treated like a regular letter and arrives in your mailbox.

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