Mixed
A plot assembled over decades rather than planted to one variety. Common wherever farms are small and replanting followed whatever the programs handed out.
Mixed is not a variety. It's what a lot sheet says when a farm has several varieties growing together and they're picked and milled as one.
This is the normal case on smallholdings. A plot gets assembled over decades: older Typica and Bourbon from before the last price crash, Mundo Novo or Caturra layered in when there was credit to plant, Catimor and its relatives put in after leaf rust because that's what the replanting programs distributed. It all gets picked together and pooled at a shared wet mill.
The cup result is averaged rather than typical. You give up the single-variety signature that makes a Gesha or a Bourbon legible, and you get breadth in exchange. Nothing drives, which is sometimes exactly what you want underneath a blend.
This is the normal case on smallholdings. A plot gets assembled over decades: older Typica and Bourbon from before the last price crash, Mundo Novo or Caturra layered in when there was credit to plant, Catimor and its relatives put in after leaf rust because that's what the replanting programs distributed. It all gets picked together and pooled at a shared wet mill.
The cup result is averaged rather than typical. You give up the single-variety signature that makes a Gesha or a Bourbon legible, and you get breadth in exchange. Nothing drives, which is sometimes exactly what you want underneath a blend.
