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...

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,...

Another coffee we secured by special arangement, and a Guatemala Antigua that really cups like one! As some who follow the offering carefully will know, it is not often we offer an Antigua...

Once again Finca El Injerto has that solid, classic quality cup character this year, as it did in 2003. Injerto, in a way, reminds me of what an Antigua should be, but 9 out of 10 times is not....

Coban has everything going for it, except the rain. Ask anyone who has traveled in Guatemala about Coban, and superlatives about the lush cloud-forests and extraordinary wildlife will follor....

Oaxaca Plumas are getting harder to find … well, good ones are. The low prices paid to farmers just doesn't make it worthwhile to put care into the agronomy, milling, or preparation of coffee...

Oaxaca Pluma are the essential Mexican coffees in my book, better than the Coatepec coffees to the North, than the Veracruz, and distinct from the fine Chiapas coffees to the South. They have...