Our Coffee
"El Lobo Negro Café/ The Black Wolf Mexico Coffee"
The company founded by José A. Calvo. Born in Mexico City. His contact with Oaxacan coffee comes from his mother. Emma Calvo, who is originally from the small town of Peñas Negras Tututepec in the State of Oaxaca. The Calvo family began with the planting and sale of coffee, as part of their daily life and as part of a way of making money, to be able to live in the 1950's. José's maternal grandfather; Leoncio Calvo, was the one who gave more strength to the coffee tradition, making more land for the planting and harvesting of coffee. This time the work was done and he taught his sons Mateo and Alberto to work in the fields, making coffee a tradition at the Calvo family table. With the death of grandfather Leoncio, his sons Alberto and Mateo were left as the managers of the coffee sales in the Peñas Negras region. Helping these, other families, so that the coffee business would be strengthened throughout the area and be able to establish a strong and stable community.
Currently, El Lobo Negro Café, is sold in a part of England. In Mexico City and in the coastal area of ​​the state of Oaxaca.
One of the most important purposes is to encourage the use of recyclable and biodegradable products for the protection of the environment. El Lobo Negro Café is committed to caring for the environment, using biodegradable bags and participating in activities for the protection of marine and wild animals that live in the coastal area of the state of Oaxaca.
The Coffee in Oaxaca
Around 1872, the first coffee farms were founded in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico. Coming from the State of Veracruz, in the Gulf of Mexico, Oaxacans looked for the right conditions for planting coffee. The first sowers, recognized in El Cerro de la Pluma, the similarity of climate and forest that Veracruz had for their coffee plantations. Once, established in the Cerro de la Pluma, the plantations began to extend towards the Bule Zone and the Juquila Zone, where coffee production was more successful.
The Taste:
Our coffee have as property a typical flavor of the Oaxacan culture, where the coffee comes from the mountains at a height of between 800 to 1800 meters above sea level, which gives it a taste of soft acidity, between vanilla, cocoa and nut flavors with a medium body. Its variety is Arabica, Typica, Caturra. Our coffee comes from several ethnic groups across the state of Oaxaca, like these five indigenous groups: Mixtecos, Chinantecos, Chatinos, Cuicatecos and Zapotecos. El Lobo Negro Café brings together some 1030 small-scale, organic coffee producers, working between one and six hectares of land, in six separate regions and 43 local communities.
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Mexican coffee plantations are the cradle of some of the most appreciated grains in the world thanks to their climatic and soil characteristics and, unfortunately, many of these are harvested and exported by transnational companies to which the Mexican market does not even have access. However, it is possible to find extraordinary brands that work with Mexican coffee respecting all the dignity of its producers, the balance of its ecosystems and the pockets of consumers.
