021 - Renato Martinez

About This Coffee

The twelfth and final coffee of our 2025 season comes from a single producer in Mazeteca in Oaxaca, Mexico—a washed process presenting in a bright, fruited cup with notes of pomegranate, hibiscus, lime and melon. Christopher states that in some situations, using imagery or details about a producer to market a coffee—with sufficient specificity to identify them locally—can create risks to their security and safety, particularly when the price paid for a coffee is dramatically out of step with the local price in places with limited government participation in daily life. So Aviary presents this coffee under an assumed name—and without a portrait. In the end, they have a coffee that is able to speak for itself: an old rootstock Typica processed in a traditional manner that presents in the cup with fruited notes of dried raspberry, pomegranate, hibiscus, lime and bright orange acidity