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Antonia Fuentes

Antonia Fuentes

Dispatch Coffee

About This Coffee

A 100% Typica lot from Antonia Fuentes's 6-hectare farm, Rancho La Perla, in the Sierra Sur region of Oaxaca, Mexico, located at approximately 1,600 meters altitude in the village of San Andrés Lovene. This washed coffee is produced using traditional, ancestral farming methods without chemicals. Typica plants thrive in the abundant sunlight, warm temperatures, and cool ocean breezes of high-altitude Oaxaca. Antonia hand-selects ripe cherries and processes them on-site using her own wet mill, fermenting for 15-24 hours in parchment and sun-drying on a mesh blanket for 8-10 days. This represents Antonia's first North American export and features flavor notes of stewed mango, marzipan, and custard with a rich, caramel-y mouthfeel. Medium-light roast suitable for espresso or filter methods.

Origin

Oaxaca (Mexico)
Sierra Sur (Mexico)

Flavor Notes

Caramelized, Mango, Custard, Marzipan

Roast Level

Medium Light

Processing

Washed

Typology

Arabica
Typica
DC

Dispatch Coffee

Chrissy Durcak started Dispatch as a cold brew bike delivery service in Montreal before running the city's first coffee truck for two years and finally opening brick and mortar locations in 2014. Today the roastery operates cafes in Montreal and Toronto, with an e commerce and subscription service that by 2022 accounted for nearly half of all revenue, reaching customers across over 400 Canadian cities. Roasting happens in house in Montreal with partner Pat Latreille, and each coffee receives its own personalized profile done in small batches with fresh roasting every week. Sourcing is deeply values driven: by 2020, 73% of coffee came from smallholder farmers, nearly half of their supply chain relationships support women led operations, and the team publishes transparency reports while donating pricing data to Emory University's Specialty Coffee Transaction Guide. Single origin beans come from Colombia, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, and Ethiopia, with a mission centered on establishing minimum prices above the cost of production.

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