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In the morning there is a gentle snowfall. Children rough up the crystallized hills with the toes of their boots. They might sell the jewelled loot, if it wouldn’t dissolve in their palms or pockets. When the snow and the ice melts, goes dripping into the drains and gutters and the cracks in the children’s knuckles, turns those carved-up hills to mud, leonine heads of daffodils pop up through the earth, singular crackles of color amongst stark, neutral shades. The children will leave them well enough alone, in some desperate plea for spring.
 
This time of year is a tease like anonymous candygrams left in lockers. It’s a tease until it isn’t and commits again to a wet, frigid winter. But mountains are capped with snow, and early walks through the empty Main, rain lightly misting your face in the quietude, are brisk and calm. You could keep walking, if you wanted to, if there was nowhere to be, no one waiting, if the road didn’t end and fall into cold, lapping water.
 
Pollard is pleased to present Mexico Altura as February’s Coffee of the Month Club pick. The
coffee is grown on small acreage farms, high up in the mountains of southern Mexico. The small-scale production allows each producer to put extra attention into their product, carefully picking and sorting each cherry so as to remove damaged and underripe fruit. The cherries are processed at each producer’s individual micro-mill, where the coffee is depulped and fermented. Twenty-four hours later, the it’s washed, put into parchment, and then dried in the sun before moving on to the central dry-mill facility for final sorting.
 
The final product is sweet and acidic, with notes of citrus fruit and caramel. It cannot promise sunlit skies, or bring on delusions of blue skies and warm winds, but it may serve as a sweet balm to get you to March, something warm and coaxing to distract from persistent clamminess, something that might spring forth cartoon hearts from your eyes and paint the world in rosen hues.
 
Subscribe to our Coffee of the Month Club today and receive your bag of Mexico Altura. With several subscription options, there is something for everyone, whether you’re invested for the long haul, just dipping your toes in the water, or in the throes of courting a caffeine-loving sweetheart.
 
Mexico Altura will be available for nonsubscribers after the end of the month, but for a higher price and in limited stock, so if you’re tempted, why not give it a try and subscribe?
 
Producer: Producers from the states of Chiapas and Oaxaca in Mexico
Variety: Typica, Criollo, Bourbon, Mundo Novo, and Caturra
Region: Chiapas and Oaxaca
Altitude: 900 — 1000 masl
Soil: Clay minerals
Process: Fully washed and dried in the sun and mechanical driers (guardiolas)
Harvest: October — March
Tasting notes: Lime, kiwi, caramel