Some introductory comments are needed (skip this part of you read the full Oporapa review): a long time ago some chump decided that better coffee came from larger coffee beans. Colombia was in...

The Nariño del Abuelo originates with the same coffee as the large bean Reserva Del Patron that we have carried in the past. As the coffee is separated, the large 18+ screen coffee goes to the...

This Colombian lot did not have a particular pedigree: it just happened to be very nice in the cup! It was a Huila coffee of Excelso grade (read our note on the Colombia page about bean-size...

Dota is a small subregion of the Tarrazú valley, more remote than the areas where most of the coffee is planted. And for years this particular coffee, El Conquistador, went to a single roaster...

La Candelilla is an estate located in La Sabana on the River Pirris, west of San Marcos de Tarrazu and 35 miles SE of San Jose. The coffee is grown at an altitude of between 1,200 and 1,900...

It used to be that water decafs were generic coffees; you really couldn't verify that the source coffee was a good cup, or even specialty coffee at all! It was possible for large roasters to...

For the second year, we are able to offer a really special Peaberry lot we had prepared for us with the the help of an extremely fine cupper in Costa Rica, and an excellent mill. This year, we...

This is going to sound ridiculous, but this coffee has a lot of "coffee flavor". I just don’t know how else to describe the clean, balanced charm of this cup profile, and it has been like this...

Okay, I am taking partial credit for the existence of this coffee, even though I didn't import it. The fact is, Sweet Maria's is too small to take on some projects, but that doesn't mean that,...

My favorite espresso blend intended solely for pump and piston type espresso extraction. This is a sweet but punchy little cup, and roasted farly light it is a shock to the palette, but has...