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The northernmost large Arabica origin, and the country that made organic coffee a market category.
Production figures are for the 2025/26 crop year.
Mexican coffee grows in the south — Chiapas, Veracruz, Oaxaca and Puebla — where the Sierra Madre and the mountains of the isthmus provide the altitude that the latitude alone would not. It is overwhelmingly smallholder and heavily indigenous: a large share of the crop comes from farms under two hectares, many of them shaded under native forest cover rather than planted in full sun.
Two events define the modern industry. The dissolution of the state marketing board INMECAFÉ at the end of the 1980s left growers to organise their own route to market, and the cooperatives that formed were among the first anywhere to certify organic and Fair Trade at scale. Then leaf rust arrived in 2012 and cut production sharply; the replanting since has shifted the varietal mix towards rust-resistant hybrids.
Shaded provinces contain growing areas; the crop covers only part of each.
The largest producing state, on the Guatemalan border — and the highest.
Coatepec and Huatusco, on the slopes below the Pico de Orizaba.
Pluma Hidalgo and the Sierra Juárez — small volumes, distinct character.
Mild, clean and light-bodied, with milk-chocolate and almond sweetness and a soft, unaggressive acidity — the profile that made Mexican coffee a blend staple. The high Chiapas and Oaxaca lots are a different thing altogether: crisp apple acidity, floral aromatics and real clarity.
Coffee came from the Caribbean in the late eighteenth century and spread through Veracruz and Chiapas under German and Spanish estate owners in the nineteenth. The twentieth century transferred most of that land to smallholders and indigenous communities, which is why an origin with an estate history now has almost no estates.
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Growing-region markers indicate an area. They are not surveyed farm locations and should not be read as any.