La Laja is one of our new offerings in 2020 and we are so happy to present their honey coffee. It is truly a sugar bomb with flavors of chocolate and cherry and a mild orange citric acidity. You will love the big creamy body on this coffee. Try a sample and let us know what you think - contract GF20703.
La Laja has a similar model to La Minita where the entire farming and milling operation is named after the flagship farm. Finca La Laja is located in Tlaltetela in Veracruz and “la laja” means the “stone where clay figures are molded”. The farm got its start in 1920 when Hermilo Sampieri bought his first coffee farm in Huatusco. Eventually his son (also named Hermilo Sampieri) joined the business and started the milling and export side. Over the years, the family farms grew to four farms in Veracruz - Finca La Laja, Finca El Mirador, Finca Las Palmas, and Finca La Veracruz which grows the robusta variety - and three farms in the state of Puebla. La Laja also buys cherry from small producers in the state of Chiapas, so they offer a wide range of qualities, regions, and processing methods. Their wet mills are in Veracruz and Puebla and their dry mill and export office is in Veracruz.
La Laja also runs a nursery where they provide coffee seedlings to their own farms and to producers from whom they buy cherry. They have on-staff agronomists who provide technical training to producers, as well as a pre-harvest lending program to support smallholder farmers with loans. La Laja has Rainforest Alliance and Utz certified coffees.
Coffees from La Laja have won a number of awards such as ninth place in the 2013 Mexico Cup of Excellence and most recently second place in the Premio Sabor Expocafe 2020 event.
