Escondido Blend 16oz. Whole Bean is 100% organic hand fire roasted high altitude coffee. Mendo Maté is very proud to introduce our NEW line of all organic hand-roasted coffee. The Escondido Blend is a first for Mendo Maté and a first for the United States. Through our travels in Mexico we noticed a trend of indigenous women hand roasting coffees, both in the tropical low lands and as high up as the famed towns of San José del Pacifico and Miahuatlan in the mountains of Oaxaca. Our Mendo Maté EarthSEARCH Team quickly established a local production-line with 4 local family's in the area.
The coffee is grown on plots of land that are cultivated by family members only accessible by traveling single file along small mountain paths in very steep rugged terrain. After about 5 hrs. (or 5 shots of Mescal) you reach these incredible plots of organic coffee. The plants are stocky at the base with a distinct organic shape and reddish purple berries. Each plant is strictly cared for by hand using only natural organic and bio-dynamic fertilizers. Because there
are no vehicles this creates new production lines that are totally created without machines of any kind. The berries are hand picked, packed and carried down the mountain to be dried and roasted.
The organic beans are then hand sifted and hand toasted to various roasts and flavors from other local products, such as local Kakaw (chocolate). Once the coffee has been hand roasted it is once more checked for purity, flavor, color, bean uniqueness and aroma before being packed into our bio-degradable bags to preserve freshness.
We believe this is a very special product and has the potential to make large changes in the world.
Plant A Tree: Mendo Matté® has committed to planting a tree for every bag that we sell online & wholesale. When you purchase a bag you plant a tree!
How: Its easy to plant trees with us! Shop for your favorite blend of Mendo Matté® and checkout. Then we send the email to plant another tree in Mendocino County!
How so: The site you are on now runs the entire company of Mendo Matté® and our 3 divisions. We no longer use paper -or- have an office. We use hard disk storage instead of filing cabinets. None of our employees commute to work. We use a 3rd party distribution center. Most packaged products are made of biodegradable bags. We even try to use recycled boxes.
* Zero commuting waste.
* No office environment waste.
* Carbon offset distribution.
* Recycling on every level.