We're proud to announce that we are bringing back an MCR favorite from the legendary Pepe Jijón!

After working as a Mountain guide Pepe went on a mission to fully explore the planet, he visited over 100 countries. Impressively, he successfully climbed the seven summits solo.

After so much travel, he longed for a calm introspection in a natural piece of land he would eventually call home, 'Intag Valley'. On his farm Finca Soledad, he grows Typica Mejorada, Sydra and Geisha. The farm itself is extremely small for coffee production (approximately 4 hectares) so we are very lucky to have this lot of tyOxidator-washed processed coffee from Pepe.

Typica Mejorada is one of the two varieties which were propagated after someone leaked some of the genetic material out of the Ecuadorian Coffee Research Lab. The story goes that of all the seeds that were taken that day, 2 of them showed promise both in production and in cup profile. One of them was partly identified to look like Typica but with a much more vibrant and complex profile, which is roughly where the name comes from. World coffee research identified Typica Mejorada as an Ethiopian landrace coffee, but it’s hard to quantify if all the Mejorada now found in Ecuador is the same as that sample.

The tyOxidator processing method is a variation of the washed method. First, the coffee is left to ferment aerobically in the open environment to promote an oxidated fermentation. The coffee is then pulped and fermented in a sealed tank for 48 hours in its mucilage before being washed, then dried in both indirect and direct sunlight for 20 days.

Typica Mejorada is an extremely exciting variety for us, and we continue to be amazed by the work of Pepe and everyone at Finca Soledad!

Expect notes of honey, red apple and peach with a juicy mouthfeel!