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One of the highest quality coffees of the year, and one of our all-time favorite producers is back on our menu again. This lot was grown by 73-year old Poptí farmer Isabela Marcos Gaspar on just over 1 hectare of fair trade organic land in Concepción Huista, Huehuetenango, Guatemala. This is officially one of our longest repeat purchase relationships, and we’re always overjoyed to support Isabela, this time we bought her entire microlot quality harvest (and only available here)! In the cup we taste nectarine, lime and rose.
Isabela’s farm, named “Kejnha,” features three coffee parcels that were planted back in 1991 (she received organic certification in 2009), and coffee production is her main source of income. But she also trades, buying and reselling, locally grown vegetables to supplement her household income. Her coffees are always strong, but the quality of this naturally sweet, creamy blend of Caturra, Pache Verde, Bourbon, Catuaí, and Anacafé 14, is on a whole new level. She won third place at a blind tasting quality competition set up by her co-op, CODECH (Coordinadora de Organizaciones de Desarrollo de Concepción Huista), which represents 500 Mayan-descendent small farmers, including recent featured Dispatch producers Luciano and Pascual.
We purchased this lot from Atlas Coffee Importers, who also brought us L+P. Both blends showcase the stone fruit sweet and custard creamy flavour profile that naturally adorns Huehuetenango coffees — thanks to the tropical highland conditions of the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes mountain range. But CODECH’s dry-mill is home to an enormous diversity of regional tastes and textures, and some of the best organically cultivated specialty coffee in the country.
This lot was also supported by the Yamanonh Integral Productive Development Association (ADIPY), who along with two other base co-ops working with CODECH, represent the Poptí, Mam, and Q'anjob'al Mayan-branch community in Guatemala. It was harvested and wet-processed at 1660 MASL in late winter 2025. Although this import got hit hard by Trump’s tariffs, we’re committed to keeping this coffee affordable; enjoy Isabela’s superb blend, brimming with balanced sweetness.
