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Mexico
In a great Mexican Coffee, a Chiapas or Oaxaca, you'll find mild flavor with medium body, and a pleasant, dry, acidy snap with delicate fruit and spice overtones. Although not necessarily among the world's most famous, if a light cup pleases you, these coffees will be quite fulfilling! This coffee is so mild that it makes a good choice for creating popular flavored coffees. It has an excellent flavor but doesn't overpower the different flavorings. Mexican coffee is moderately priced and thus very popular in blends and as a flavoring base.
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El Salvador
Most El Salvadors are soft, ingratiating coffees with relatively subdued acidity, much like many Mexico and Central America coffees grown on ocean-influenced slopes and valleys. Nevertheless, these El Salvador coffees can be fine, if gentle, fragrant and seductive. Occasionally an El Salvador appears that is powerful, deep, and acidy like the finest Guatemalas. The best grade of El Salvador coffee is Strictly High Grown. Most El Salvador coffee is grown in various degrees of shade.
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Guatemala
The famous growing region of Antigua yields some of the world's best coffees. A genuine Antigua is full bodied, rich in flavor, and offers a smoky, complex cup. Guatemalan coffees are some of the most amazing fragrant and aromatic coffees in the world. The natural shade and jungle of the Guatemalan highlands are the perfect environment for the bourbon botanical variety of arabica (a spontaneous variety of the original typical), which lends itself to a very nice and very natural full cup.
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Costa Rica
Costa Rican coffees set the standard for washed (wet processed) bright Central American coffees in both the bean and at the mill. They are exceptionally high grown in amazing volcanic soil. These two factors come together to produce a very bright and very clean cup. The best Costas are the cups that develop a bit of berry fruitiness to compliment the straight-out brightness. Costa Rican coffees serve as an excellent bright single origin coffee and will definitely add life to various blends.
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