refined balance of sweetness and bittering tones, honey glazed almond, milk chocolate, prailine nut, aromatic hints of almond cake Finca La Bolsa is located in the town of La Libertad, Huehuetenango. It’s one of a few plots of coffee that sprung up around the original farm, El Rincon, started by Dr. Jorge Vides. He bought this…

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A balanced framework of raw sugar and cocoa bittering, marked by accents of roasted tree nuts and baking chocolate aftertaste. The province of Inzá is located in Southwestern Colombia within the greater Department of Cauca. As you make the drive from La Plata to Inzá, you follow the Rio Páez, and an eventual crossing over…

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brightness for body, with chocolate roast flavors, cocoa biscuit, bittering cacao, campfire marshmallow, and toasted almond. Dota is a small subregion adjacent to the Tarrazu valley proper, more remote than the areas where most of the coffee in Costa Rica is planted. Great Dota coffees are fairly small sized seeds, with compact density due to…

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tangy citrus juices like mandarin and pink grapefruit, aromatic spices of cardamom and Earl Grey, sweetness that’s transparent and clean, and vibrant lemon-like acidity. Ngugu-ini is a green coffee “Factory” located in the Kirinyaga district, just across the border from Nyeri. Factories are basically what we call a wet mill, or washing station, a local…

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Amber honey sweetness opens up to fruited flavors of orange marmalade, unsulfured apricot, peach tea, along with hints of wood spice, tenadam herb, and lemon balm. The Nano Challa Cooperative is part of an initiative that Sweet Maria’s team have in Ethiopia to work direct at the coop level. The name Nano Challa refers to…

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A matrix of honey and caramel sweetness, along with top notes of aromatic Earl Grey, apple butter, clove spice and structuring acidic impression like iced black tea. Mushonyi coffee processing station is in Rwanda’s Rutsiro district in the Western Province. It’s origins go back to being owned by the army, and then purchased by a…

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(Last update: 14 Jun 2021) Adding 7 new coffees this month, four from Africa. Both the Rwanda and Congo coffee are bourbon variety, should be able to produce more fruity flavors. The Kenya is coming from Mt Kirinyaga region, one of the highest growing region in Africa. For Central american well-balanced coffee, other than the…

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berry aromatic hints with palm sugar sweetener underneath, opens up to freeze dried mango, natural dried apricot, and date. Kailitlau is the name of a mountain in East Timor, and home to the four farmer groups whose coffees make up this small blend. Skirting the eastern ridge of Kailitlau, these mountain towns (or “suco”s in…

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refined sweetness and brilliant acidity, aromatic clover honey, clean and bright hints of mandarin orange and citrus pith, and a sweet finish. Pulu Pulu is one of the higher coffee growing areas in Tana Toraja (1700 to 2000 meters above sea level) and home to many older Sulawesi coffee farms. Often, farmers from Pulu Pulu…

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Sweet flavors of caramel popcorn and toffee, brilliant acidity, pulpy fruited accents, red apple, cooling to hints of cinnamon powder and fruited herbal tea The Baroida Plantation, located in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, was founded by Ben Colbran in the 1960s. Ben first purchased the land from a local man named Taro…

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