Earth-toned sweetness, fruits that go from natural dried types, to ripe and winey. Notes of sorghum syrup, salted plum, rustic honey mead, roasted cacao and dark cocoa. The Cabañas community began cultivating coffee in the early 2000’s, planting mostly Pacas and Typica cultivars. Unfortunately, a coffee leaf rust outbreak about a decade later wiped out…

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Bittersweetness unfolds to flavors of unrefined sugar, creamy caramel, dashes of baking spice, chocolate-covered raisin, and a sharp hint of orange peel.  The washing station Kageyo lies in the highlands surrounding the southeastern shores of Lake Kivu in Rwanda’s Ngororero district. In fact, Kageyo was the 1st place winner of Rwanda’s Cup of Excellence coffee…

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Good bit of citrus and red fruit upfront balanced with a thicker chocolate and spice note. Light roasts get very jazzy acidity, with just a hint of a dark tone. Floral and sweet edged, with an emphasis on the fruitiness of the cup. Kateshi coffee estate, as one of the first coffee estates in Zambia,…

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balanced cocoa flavors beneath notes of rice syrup and molasses, dried apricot, chai spice, rustic cocoa, tobacco, pepper cask…as complex as they come!  Matari is one of the few coffees from the growing regions surrounding the high-altitudes of Sana’a that was traditionally kept separate. All others were mixed to form “Sana’ani coffee” with decidedly mixed…

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Hints of floral mixing with smooth nutty & malty features. Will show some winy citric and fruit acidity in the light to medium roast spectrum but all in all a medium to low acidity brew with a medium body. Smooth, clean and sweet edged, a cup we are more than willing to drink all day.  The…

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Floral aroma along with pronounced cane sugar sweetness that leads to a sweet finish, notes of fresh gardenia and freesia flowers, pink gum, berry taffy, and an herbal rue accent. The Halo Beriti washing station is located near Gedeb town, within Ethiopia’s southern Gedeo Zone, a few kilometer south of Yirga Cheffe. The collection sites…

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Raspberry, Caramel, Orange, Grapefruit  CoopeDota, the world’s first certified carbon-neutral coffee exporter, is much more than just a coffee operation with a great certification. Recently retired Director Roberto Mata built up an amazing industry integrating social services and environmental protections while producing some of the highest quality coffee available in Costa Rica. CoopeDota provides members…

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Prosecco, Cantaloupe, Cola Familia Diaz Honey is a collection of the Pacas varietal, carefully processed via the honey process method by brothers Arnulfo and Renato Diaz. The brothers have separate farms but process their coffee together in a flat, sunny location at their father’s ranch. This lot, and this relationship, comes from our longstanding sourcing…

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Lovely balance of acidity and sweetness that opens up to include flavors of cane sugar, dried date pieces, a cinnamon stick aromatic accent, hints of lemon juice, and a candied lemon peel bite. Most coffee of Tanzania come from Kilimanjaro, which make the origin famous. With the big mountain, high altitude, coffee drinker can easily…

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Aroma with hints of cherry; taste of dried apricot, peace and jamine tea. The taste is the same, but overtly wild and earthy with excellent balance if go darker. Harrar is known as “the coffee of kings,” grown in the original coffee country and dried naturally on the trees. This adds a wildness to the…

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