This dry-processed coffee from the Ghimbi - Lekempti region has a bit of a husky character, more of the typical flavors that are inherent to natural dry-processed coffees: earthy, pungent,...

This lot of Harar Organic was pleasant late-crop arrival: we often find the best Harars come from MAO Horse (although we must cup many lots of Harar Horse to find the real gems). But it seems...

Harar is intense. A really good Harar is a coffee that is fruity (blueberry to apricot) and with flowery enzymatic aromas, jasmine tea, maple woodiness, exotic hide or fresh leather, mulling...

Wet-processed Sidamo is a coffee we usually don't stock: it is similar in the cup to Ethiopia Yirgacheffe, another wet-process coffee, and often cups out as a lesser cousin. The irony is this:...

Yirgacheffe will beat you with a flower. It is truly a seductive coffee! Yirgacheffe is a town in Sidamo region, a high plateau north of Harar...Yirg. should mean "highest quality, most fruity...

Here is yet another fantastic Kenya Auction lot. I know, read a few Kenya reviews here and you would think I praise everything and anything. But you are seeing just the tip of the proverbial...

We are really proud of our Kenyas, mainly because the ones we stock represent over 150-200 true Auction Lot Kenyas we cupped this year. But some of our Kenyas are really too potent, too over the...

The Kenya Auction system isn't like a Cup of Excellence auction, or other competitive system. Kenya Auctions are indeed about the quality of the cup, but it is really an auction on the price of...

Mount Elgon lies in the Eastern reaches of the country, straddling the Uganda/Kenya border. Judging by its enormous base it is thought that Mt Elgon was once the tallest mountain in Africa. The...

Hirazi coffees are the the rarest and most prized Yemeni coffee by the Yemeni people and by the aficionados. This is from Bani Ismail, Bani meaning tribe an Ismail meaning the region... and...