Christmas coffee: Ruben Cervantes (Mexico) 200g

A 200g bag of this year’s Christmas Coffee, in your choice of grind or whole beans, direct from our Coffee by Tate Roastery at Tate Britain, with a festive label featuring From My Bedroom Window, 1930 by Alfred Munnings.

Our Christmas coffee for 2025 is from producer Ruben Cervantes, in the Oaxaca region of Mexico.

Tasting notes: Dark Chocolate, Cranberry, Cointreau
Producer: Ruben Cervantes
Location: Lomo Ocotitlan, Sierra de Flores Magon, Oaxaca
Process: Natural Anaerobic
Variety: Typica, Bourbon, Mundo Novo
Size: 200g

Coffee by Tate is a vibrant community-led non-profit business that helps fund Tate Gallery and champion coffee producers and professionals of all genders throughout the coffee value chain. Our range of coffees is comprised of individual, community and family producers and designed to reflect the seasonality, diversity and quality of coffee grown across Africa and Latin America. Our range of coffees are the results of projects, relationships or initiatives that we have instigated or supported in producing communities, with the help of our partners, and changes seasonally. This is a more sustainable process that ensures the highest quality yield and allows us to work with more producers.

Keep your coffee sealed in the bag and store in a cool dry place away from sunlight. Use within 3 months.

About our producers

Ruben Cervantes is a third-generation indigenous Mazatec producer and the soul of this exceptional coffee. Together with his wife, Rosa Rubio, and their children, Citlali and Cristián, Ruben has managed to consolidate an operation that goes beyond coffee farming. On his estate, diversification is important: besides growing coffee, he also does beekeeping, masonry, and grows different foods.

In the locality of Loma Alta, in Huautla de Jiménez, Oaxaca, are the farms El Lodo and El Derrumbe. These places, surrounded by a cloud forest, lush vegetation, and the mountains of the Sierra Madre del Sur, are the production centres for Ruben Cervantes’ coffee. The farms, both covering one hectare, look like small jungles where coffee plants grow in a traditional polyculture system, known as traditional rustic or ‘mountain’, which involves minimal intervention in the ecosystem. This method enables coffee plants to grow alongside timber trees, legumes like cuajinicuil, and fruit trees like banana and citrus. These trees provide multiple layers of shade to the coffee plantations, protecting them from adverse weather conditions.

Inspired by the carbonic maceration process used in winemaking, natural anaerobic processing is when whole coffee cherries are fermented in sealed, oxygen free tanks. The lack of oxygen slows down the fermentation, giving producers greater control over the end product, and more consistency.

• Dimensions 22.5 x 3.5 x 16 cm
• Size 250 g