Office Solutions for Coffee
Home and Small Office Brewer Bundle
bundle

A perfect brewing package for the home or small office!

Includes all of the Following:

Technivorm Brewer - Your choice of either the Glass (# 9557 KB741) or Thermal Model (# 9580 Moccamaster CD Thermo)
Baratza Virtuoso Burr Grinder
Salter Scale
1 Box Filtropa #4 Filters
And the Following 2 Coffees:
Matalapa, El Salvador (Vienna Roast)
El Injerto, Guatemala (Full Flavor Roast)

All for $399.00!
A savings of over $80 off of our standard discount prices!
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Fair Trade & Organic
Konga Cooperative, Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia


The Konga Cooperative has 1683 farmers of which 133 are female heads of family. The average size of a farm is 1.25 acres on which coffee and various foods for the local market are grown. Yirgacheffe is amazingly lush with vegetation. The coffees are grown at over 6,000 feet in altitude.

This coffee is refined and delicate. Darjeeling tea, sweet lemon and a hint of ginger give Yirgacheffe a unique flavor profile. This particular lot was the best we cupped last year and we made history by have it vacuum sealed and boxed in Ethiopia. The coffee has arrived at our facilities with its special perfume intact and without woodiness, something we have not enjoyed for several years! This Konga, taken black with no milk or sweetener, pairs ecstatically with dark chocolate. Much better than, um...dunking donuts...Favorite of Food & Wine Magazine, March 2006

Roast Style: Full Flavor Roast

Harvest: 2006


Altitude: over 6,000 feet
Soil: volcanic
Arabica Variety: Ethiopica
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Kangocho, Nyeri, Kenya


On Sale for September!

What a thrill to once again have a great lot from this cooperative mill after so many years! I first had coffee from Kangocho during my Coffee Connection days in the early 1990's, when I grasped what greatness Kenya coffees were capable of. Even better, we have obtained an exceptional lot, superior, in my opinion, to even our current Karogoto, which received 96 points from Coffee Review.

What makes this lot of Kangocho so special are its sumptuous mouthfeel and its sweet blueberry notes, melding so harmoniously with the classic grand Kenya riot of blackberry and black currant flavors.

Kangocho is a high altitude, small farmer cooperative coffee processing center in the Nyeri district.

We are offering this Kenyan coffee in two roast profiles, our classic full flavor and a slightly darker profile wonderfully suited for French Press.

Please click here to view more images of this coffee farm.

Sale $13.95, regularly $15.95. Your choice of either roast profile!
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Konga Cooperative, North Italian Style Espresso


Ethiopian Yirgacheffe has traditionally been used as a prized aromatic ingredient in the finest Italian espresso blends. During a lecture to the Specialty Coffee Association of America, a number of years ago, the great quality coffee pioneer and scientist Ernesto Illy stated that this coffee shared a certain key aromatic component with Chanel 5 and Darjeeling tea.

Creamy, complex, delicately perfumed candy-lemon and mellow apricot accented with a dash of ginger enfolded within a rich milk-chocolate base. Prolonged sweet aftertaste.

Roast Style: North Italian Style
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Cup of Excellence
El Descanso, Huila, Colombia
Currently out of stock. Look for new crop in Late September!

We first bought coffee from El Descanso, meaning 'Rest, respite,' in the district of Huila during the 2006 Cup of Excellence auctions.

Jesus Orlando Lopez merged his brother's farm and now owns 8 hectares (20 acres) of farmland at over 5,600 feet. He has been reforesting his land and has applied for the Rainforest certification.

Ripe, elegant and velvety, the cup is medium-bodied, suggesting honeyed citrus, plum, and pomegranate mingling with soft streaks of blackberry, aromatic, ripe pear, wintergreen, vanilla and rounded with chocolate truffle.

Farm: El Descanso
Farmer: Jesus Orlando Lopez
Region: Huila
Variety: Caturra
Altitude: 5,600 ft.
Rainfall: Moderate+
Roast: Full Flavor

Please click here to view more images of this coffee farm.
Click here to read our review on the Coffee Habitat.


India
Iced Coffee Sets
Kenya
Kangocho, Nyeri, Kenya


On Sale for September!

What a thrill to once again have a great lot from this cooperative mill after so many years! I first had coffee from Kangocho during my Coffee Connection days in the early 1990's, when I grasped what greatness Kenya coffees were capable of. Even better, we have obtained an exceptional lot, superior, in my opinion, to even our current Karogoto, which received 96 points from Coffee Review.

What makes this lot of Kangocho so special are its sumptuous mouthfeel and its sweet blueberry notes, melding so harmoniously with the classic grand Kenya riot of blackberry and black currant flavors.

Kangocho is a high altitude, small farmer cooperative coffee processing center in the Nyeri district.

We are offering this Kenyan coffee in two roast profiles, our classic full flavor and a slightly darker profile wonderfully suited for French Press.

Please click here to view more images of this coffee farm.

Sale $13.95, regularly $15.95. Your choice of either roast profile!
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Grand Cru Kenya: Mamuto, Kirinyaga


New Crop Roasting Monday June 23rd!

I believe it was the best lot auctioned in Kenya that year (all Kenyan coffee lots were auctioned through 2006; this year the system was "liberalized," permitting direct sales as well as auction coffee). Last November our Mamuto received Coffee Review's first-ever score over 95. We now have Mamuto's best lot from the most recent harvest. We purchased this lot directly and without hesitation; it was, again, the most outstanding lot we tried this past buying season and we have been privileged to always cup the cream of the crop!

Taking inspiration from their family, Mr. Mathagu explained to me, he and his wife named the farm by combining the first two letters from three words: his name, Mathagu, as the father; Muthoni, his wife's maiden name, as mother; and toto, meaning child or children in Swahili: thus Mamuto. Mr. and Mrs. Mathagu have six children - three boys, three girls.

Farmer: Walter Paul and Muthoni Mathagu


Region: Kirinyaga
Altitude: 5,000 ft.
Rainfall: Low to moderate+
Soil: Volcanic loam
Arabica variety: 95% Bourbon Sl 28 and SL 34, 5% Ruiru 11
Size of Farm: 21 acres total; 13 acres of coffee
Roast: Full Flavor

Please click here to view more images of this coffee farm.
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Bolivia
Nicaragua
Honduras
El Salvador
Matalapa, La Libertad, El Salvador
Matalapa is a fourth generation 190 acre farm at 4,100 feet above sea level. It was founded in the late 1800's by Fidelia Lima, great grandmother of the current owner, Vickie Ann Dalton de Díaz. She maintains 14 acres of virgin tropical forest and keeps her coffee plants shaded with over forty varieties of shades trees.

I have been following this farm for three years now and have been very impressed with each year's improvements since winning in the 2003 El Salvador Cup of Excellence. The 2007 crop is very impressive for its sweetness and buttery body, ideal for espresso and French Press brewing.

100% Bourbon. Layers of refined deep sweet citrus with no edge coated with creamed nutty caramel.

Farm: Matalapa
Farmer: Vickie Ann Dalton de Diaz
Region: La Libertad
Altitude: 4,100 ft
Rainfall: 86 - 98 in. per year
Soil: Clay loam.
Varietal: 100% Bourbon
Vintage: 2007
Roast: Vienna

Please click here to view more images of this coffee farm.
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Colombia
El Descanso, Huila, Colombia
Currently out of stock. Look for new crop in Late September!

We first bought coffee from El Descanso, meaning 'Rest, respite,' in the district of Huila during the 2006 Cup of Excellence auctions.

Jesus Orlando Lopez merged his brother's farm and now owns 8 hectares (20 acres) of farmland at over 5,600 feet. He has been reforesting his land and has applied for the Rainforest certification.

Ripe, elegant and velvety, the cup is medium-bodied, suggesting honeyed citrus, plum, and pomegranate mingling with soft streaks of blackberry, aromatic, ripe pear, wintergreen, vanilla and rounded with chocolate truffle.

Farm: El Descanso
Farmer: Jesus Orlando Lopez
Region: Huila
Variety: Caturra
Altitude: 5,600 ft.
Rainfall: Moderate+
Roast: Full Flavor

Please click here to view more images of this coffee farm.
Click here to read our review on the Coffee Habitat.


Piedras de Afilar, Nariño, Colombia
Roasting Tuesday, September 2nd

Last summer we spent weeks cupping through hundreds of tiny lots from small Colombian farmers; all our Colombian offerings have been chosen this way, including the Maria Santos and El Descanso - from blind cupping. A few lots have come up as particularly noteworthy and rewarded with a substantially higher premium- the Villa Flor lots which we finished this week - the larger La Esperanza lot which we are featuring weekly, and now the final special edition lot of last year's series - Piedras de Afilar, meaning 'grindstones' - a mere forty pounds, to be roasted twice in twenty lb. lots. This tiny lot is a particularly sweet version of the classic Nariño flavor profile of black tea, mild notes of pineapple, and a hint of wintergreen. While not certified, Jeremias uses no chemical products on his fields.

The second and last roast will be Tuesday, September 2nd!

Farmer: Jeremias Lasso
Region: Nariño
Altitude: 5,900 ft.
Rainfall: Moderate+
Soil: Franco Arciloso
Arabica variety: Caturra, Typica
Size of Farm: approximately 2 acres of coffee
Roast: Full Flavor
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La Esperanza, Huila, Colombia
Roasting Every Monday!

La Esperanza, is a jammy ripe dark plum saturated coffee, layered with tropical fruits and streaks of honeyed raw sugar cane. It is among the finest of any Colombian I have had, an exemplary coffee revealing a peak expression of Colombian terroir.

The owner of La Esperanza, Isaias Cantillo Osa, is very modest in speech and presence yet displays a striking determination and independence of mind supported by intuition and real ingenuity when it comes to farm management and quality development. He started as a coffee picker and worked his way over many years toward being able to buy a tiny farm with his savings. He then bought coffee seeds over time from nearby farms accumulating quite a collection of varieties along the way. He resisted "the establishment's" urgings to replant his farm with more productive Arabica cultivars and his farm is now a museum of Arabicas, some rarely seen these days, most of which are low producing but prized for quality.

To read a more detailed description of the farm and coffee, please click here.

Please click here to view more images of this coffee farm.


Please order online or call (866) 444-5282
Farmer: Isaias Cantillo Osa
Region: Huila
Altitude: 5,500 ft.
Rainfall: Moderate+
Soil: Franco Arciloso
Arabica variety: San Bernardo, Bourbon, Typica, Caturra, V de Colombia
Size of Farm: 6 acres of coffee
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Indonesia
Sumatra, Mandheling, Indonesia


At last another great Sumatra Mandheling has come our way - and we have snatched all there was. The coffee beans were harvested in the region of Lintong from plants of ancient lineage going back to the early Dutch plantings of the early seventeenth century. There is no other Sumatra Mandheling in the US that can hold a candle to ours for craftsmanship, clarity and conviction of expression.

Wonderfully clean and ripe, full of syrupy-bodied herbal butterscotch flavor.

Rated 94 points by Kenneth David's Coffee Review. To read the review click here.

Roast Style: Full Flavor Roast


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Aged Sumatra Mandheling, Vintage 2002, Indonesia
This very heavy-bodied liqueur-like coffee has been specially selected and then carefully aged for over three years. The raw beans are no longer blue-green but a deep orange-brown color. No coffee ages with the same grace as Sumatra Mandheling and its sweetness is retained over time.

Notes of brandy and tawny port, fresh sweet tobaccos, roots, leather, autumn leaves and butterscotch entwine into a unique coffee experience.

Roast Style: Full Flavor Roast

Rated 93 points by Kenneth David's Coffee Review. To read the review click here.
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Sumatra Mandheling, South Italian Espresso Roast


On Sale for September!

This coffee produces massive crema and jumps out with an intense perfume of roasted almonds, followed with a burst of blueberry embedded in dense bitter-sweet chocolate, and ends with a smooth, sweet creamy finish.

Sale price $12.95, regularly $14.95.
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Ethiopia
Konga Cooperative, Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia


The Konga Cooperative has 1683 farmers of which 133 are female heads of family. The average size of a farm is 1.25 acres on which coffee and various foods for the local market are grown. Yirgacheffe is amazingly lush with vegetation. The coffees are grown at over 6,000 feet in altitude.

This coffee is refined and delicate. Darjeeling tea, sweet lemon and a hint of ginger give Yirgacheffe a unique flavor profile. This particular lot was the best we cupped last year and we made history by have it vacuum sealed and boxed in Ethiopia. The coffee has arrived at our facilities with its special perfume intact and without woodiness, something we have not enjoyed for several years! This Konga, taken black with no milk or sweetener, pairs ecstatically with dark chocolate. Much better than, um...dunking donuts...Favorite of Food & Wine Magazine, March 2006

Roast Style: Full Flavor Roast

Harvest: 2006


Altitude: over 6,000 feet
Soil: volcanic
Arabica Variety: Ethiopica
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Konga Cooperative, North Italian Style Espresso


Ethiopian Yirgacheffe has traditionally been used as a prized aromatic ingredient in the finest Italian espresso blends. During a lecture to the Specialty Coffee Association of America, a number of years ago, the great quality coffee pioneer and scientist Ernesto Illy stated that this coffee shared a certain key aromatic component with Chanel 5 and Darjeeling tea.

Creamy, complex, delicately perfumed candy-lemon and mellow apricot accented with a dash of ginger enfolded within a rich milk-chocolate base. Prolonged sweet aftertaste.

Roast Style: North Italian Style
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Panama
La Esmeralda, Boquette, Panama
Roasting Monday, August 25th in our Full Flavor roast!

La Esmeralda has won the Best of Panama Competition every year since it first appeared in 2004 when it took the international jury by storm. Gesha, an Arabica coffee variety exported from the wild forests of Ethiopia in 1931, was introduced into Central America in the 1950’s. It was a disappointment back then because its production was quite poor and so very little was grown. Then in 2004 Price Peterson and his son Daniel decided to change their coffee entry into the yearly Panama coffee competition, selecting only their Gesha variety instead of the blend of coffee varieties they had been offering up before. Gesha is now the rage.

La Esmeralda deserves great praise not only for their original vision but for how well crafted the coffee is. Their quality continues to improve. La Esmeralda’s great sweetness indicates real care in picking strictly ripe fruit.

Powerful aromatic plumes of full-bodied sweet ripe apricot, mango and sparkling peach laced with nutmeg and jasmine.

$22.95 per 8 oz. roasted.
Please order online or call (866) 444-5282
Farmer: Price and Daniel Peterson
Region: Boquete
Altitude: 5,200 ft.
Rainfall: high
Soil: ?
Arabica variety: Gesha
Size of Farm: 123.6 acres, 3% of which is La Esmeralda Especial

Check here for our roast schedule of limited edition coffees

* Note 1 -- orders received will not be shipped until the ROAST DATE indicated per the schedule; and 2 -- orders received that include REGULAR COFFEE items in addition to scheduled Limited Edition coffees will be shipped in separate shipments, when available unless a message in the Notes Box indicates to ship together.
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Rwanda
Costa Rica
La Minita Estate (SHB), Tarrazu, Costa Rica
On Sale for August!
$12.95 regularly $14.95!

This is the grand cru estate coffee. In my opinion, one of the most consistent, perfectly crafted estate coffees in the world, year after year. Full bodied, sparkling acidity, yet so smooth from hot to stone cold. Maple syrup, nuts and hint of peaches.

No pesticides or herbicides are used.
Roast Style: Full Flavor Roast

http://www.laminita.com/
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Decaf La Magnolia, Tres Rios, Costa Rica
New Crop!

Full bodied and full flavored, with fine, richly blended nuts, sweet mellow peach and a trace of chocolate.

It is a rare treat to "eat my words", and enjoy the act or should I say drink? That is what a Swiss Water decaffeinated Costa Rican coffee forced me to do when we first tasted this coffee. The Swiss Water people have truly mastered the method to produce the most outstanding decaf I have ever tasted. We promptly bought the coffee for all our enjoyment. It is hardly believable this coffee is decaffeinated!

The coffee is called La Magnolia, is from the famed Tres Rios growing region of Costa Rica and was collected by the folks at La Minita. Full bodied and full flavored, with fine, richly blended nuts, sweet mellow peach and a trace of chocolate.

Swiss Water Decaffeinated (chemical-free)
Altitude: 3,500 - 4,000 feet
Soil: Volcanic
Rainfall: Moderate
Variety: Caturra
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Decaf Espresso (HB), La Lapa, Costa Rica
Sweet, lively espresso with a heart of dark chocolate. Great for a naturally sweet cappuccino or for a cup of darker roasted decaf coffee. Not a trace of harshness or bitter aftertaste.

Roast Style: North Italian Style Espresso Roast
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Decaf La Lapa (HB), Atlantic Coast, Costa Rica
This is one of the best, most un-decaffeinated tasting coffees I know of. Sweet, ripe, high-grown Atlantic Coast coffee. Smooth yet lively with marked chocolate flavors mixing with nuts. The aftertaste sweetly disappears.

Roast Style: Full Flavor Roast


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Brazil
Daterra Farm Special Reserve, Cerrado, Brazil
On Sale for September!

The new crop Daterra Farm Special Reserve is a spectacular improvement over the past. This is still a wonderfully mellow coffee but with far more delicate clean fruit sweetness than in the past, giving a refined Beaujolais-like character to this coffee. It was harvested in late summer of 2007 from deep-rooted, low yield, very carefully hand-harvested Yellow Bourbon variety of Arabica. The owner of Daterra, Luis Pascoal, is a key coffee visionary in the quality coffee movement who never tires of tweaking everything he does one notch up every year for the quality of the coffee and for his social and environmental policies. He has done it again. Big notch, Luis! Daterra is Rainforest Alliance and Utz certified.



Favorite of Food & Wine Magazine, March 2006

Roast Style: Full Flavor Roast

Sale $13.95, regularly $15.95.
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Daterra, South Italian Style Espresso
Medium roast with a rich layering of bittersweet chocolate over clean fruit and a hint of fine pipe tobacco.

Roast Style: South Italian Style Espresso Roast

Rated 93 points by Kenneth David's Coffee Review, to read the review click here.
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Daterra, North Italian Style Espresso


On Sale for August!
$12.95 regularly $14.95

Light Roasted, elegant, creamed-honey textured, sweet coffee with a fine marzipan-vanilla aroma.

Click here for the full description.

Roast Style: North Italian Style Espresso Roast

Rated 92 points by Kenneth David's Coffee Review, to read the review click here.

Choice coffee of Troels Poulsen, the World Barista Champion of 2005! Read more here.
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Daterra, Calabria Style Espresso


Calabria is the darkest roast in our espresso series. This is a blend of Arabica cultivars from the Daterra Farm roasted to produce a thick velvety crema and extra body. The cup is drenched with notes of deep bittersweet chocolate without trace of harshness. The aftertaste is sweet and prolonged.
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Guatemala
El Injerto, Huehuetenango, Guatemala SHB
Huehuetenango is a spectacular region of sharp-toothed mountains and narrow valleys. Warm winds from the hot Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico, to the north, flow through narrow north-south valleys, warming the mountainsides and allowing coffee growth at far higher altitudes than would ordinarily be possible.

The cup has dazzling razor-fine acidity with honeyed citrus, red currant and other berry notes and a touch of anise. Full bodied. 100% Bourbon variety.

Roast Style: Full Flavor Roast

No pesticides, fungicides or herbicides are used.

http://www.fincaelinjerto.com

Rated best Overall by the Wall Street Journal
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Roasters Choice
Roasters Choice
Don't know what to choose? Have our Master Roaster hand-select one of our fantastic coffees for your enjoyment!

We have several different regions and styles available.
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Decaffeinated
Decaf La Magnolia, Tres Rios, Costa Rica
New Crop!

Full bodied and full flavored, with fine, richly blended nuts, sweet mellow peach and a trace of chocolate.

It is a rare treat to "eat my words", and enjoy the act or should I say drink? That is what a Swiss Water decaffeinated Costa Rican coffee forced me to do when we first tasted this coffee. The Swiss Water people have truly mastered the method to produce the most outstanding decaf I have ever tasted. We promptly bought the coffee for all our enjoyment. It is hardly believable this coffee is decaffeinated!

The coffee is called La Magnolia, is from the famed Tres Rios growing region of Costa Rica and was collected by the folks at La Minita. Full bodied and full flavored, with fine, richly blended nuts, sweet mellow peach and a trace of chocolate.

Swiss Water Decaffeinated (chemical-free)
Altitude: 3,500 - 4,000 feet
Soil: Volcanic
Rainfall: Moderate
Variety: Caturra
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Decaf Espresso (HB), La Lapa, Costa Rica
Sweet, lively espresso with a heart of dark chocolate. Great for a naturally sweet cappuccino or for a cup of darker roasted decaf coffee. Not a trace of harshness or bitter aftertaste.

Roast Style: North Italian Style Espresso Roast
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Decaf La Lapa (HB), Atlantic Coast, Costa Rica
This is one of the best, most un-decaffeinated tasting coffees I know of. Sweet, ripe, high-grown Atlantic Coast coffee. Smooth yet lively with marked chocolate flavors mixing with nuts. The aftertaste sweetly disappears.

Roast Style: Full Flavor Roast


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Espresso
Sumatra Mandheling, South Italian Espresso Roast


On Sale for September!

This coffee produces massive crema and jumps out with an intense perfume of roasted almonds, followed with a burst of blueberry embedded in dense bitter-sweet chocolate, and ends with a smooth, sweet creamy finish.

Sale price $12.95, regularly $14.95.
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Konga Cooperative, North Italian Style Espresso


Ethiopian Yirgacheffe has traditionally been used as a prized aromatic ingredient in the finest Italian espresso blends. During a lecture to the Specialty Coffee Association of America, a number of years ago, the great quality coffee pioneer and scientist Ernesto Illy stated that this coffee shared a certain key aromatic component with Chanel 5 and Darjeeling tea.

Creamy, complex, delicately perfumed candy-lemon and mellow apricot accented with a dash of ginger enfolded within a rich milk-chocolate base. Prolonged sweet aftertaste.

Roast Style: North Italian Style
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Daterra, South Italian Style Espresso
Medium roast with a rich layering of bittersweet chocolate over clean fruit and a hint of fine pipe tobacco.

Roast Style: South Italian Style Espresso Roast

Rated 93 points by Kenneth David's Coffee Review, to read the review click here.
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Daterra, North Italian Style Espresso


On Sale for August!
$12.95 regularly $14.95

Light Roasted, elegant, creamed-honey textured, sweet coffee with a fine marzipan-vanilla aroma.

Click here for the full description.

Roast Style: North Italian Style Espresso Roast

Rated 92 points by Kenneth David's Coffee Review, to read the review click here.

Choice coffee of Troels Poulsen, the World Barista Champion of 2005! Read more here.
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Daterra, Calabria Style Espresso


Calabria is the darkest roast in our espresso series. This is a blend of Arabica cultivars from the Daterra Farm roasted to produce a thick velvety crema and extra body. The cup is drenched with notes of deep bittersweet chocolate without trace of harshness. The aftertaste is sweet and prolonged.
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Decaf Espresso (HB), La Lapa, Costa Rica
Sweet, lively espresso with a heart of dark chocolate. Great for a naturally sweet cappuccino or for a cup of darker roasted decaf coffee. Not a trace of harshness or bitter aftertaste.

Roast Style: North Italian Style Espresso Roast
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Matalapa, La Libertad, El Salvador
Matalapa is a fourth generation 190 acre farm at 4,100 feet above sea level. It was founded in the late 1800's by Fidelia Lima, great grandmother of the current owner, Vickie Ann Dalton de Díaz. She maintains 14 acres of virgin tropical forest and keeps her coffee plants shaded with over forty varieties of shades trees.

I have been following this farm for three years now and have been very impressed with each year's improvements since winning in the 2003 El Salvador Cup of Excellence. The 2007 crop is very impressive for its sweetness and buttery body, ideal for espresso and French Press brewing.

100% Bourbon. Layers of refined deep sweet citrus with no edge coated with creamed nutty caramel.

Farm: Matalapa
Farmer: Vickie Ann Dalton de Diaz
Region: La Libertad
Altitude: 4,100 ft
Rainfall: 86 - 98 in. per year
Soil: Clay loam.
Varietal: 100% Bourbon
Vintage: 2007
Roast: Vienna

Please click here to view more images of this coffee farm.
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Green Coffee
Green Coffee
Want to roast your own coffee? Here is a list of our coffees that are available green.
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Limited Edition
Piedras de Afilar, Nariño, Colombia
Roasting Tuesday, September 2nd

Last summer we spent weeks cupping through hundreds of tiny lots from small Colombian farmers; all our Colombian offerings have been chosen this way, including the Maria Santos and El Descanso - from blind cupping. A few lots have come up as particularly noteworthy and rewarded with a substantially higher premium- the Villa Flor lots which we finished this week - the larger La Esperanza lot which we are featuring weekly, and now the final special edition lot of last year's series - Piedras de Afilar, meaning 'grindstones' - a mere forty pounds, to be roasted twice in twenty lb. lots. This tiny lot is a particularly sweet version of the classic Nariño flavor profile of black tea, mild notes of pineapple, and a hint of wintergreen. While not certified, Jeremias uses no chemical products on his fields.

The second and last roast will be Tuesday, September 2nd!

Farmer: Jeremias Lasso
Region: Nariño
Altitude: 5,900 ft.
Rainfall: Moderate+
Soil: Franco Arciloso
Arabica variety: Caturra, Typica
Size of Farm: approximately 2 acres of coffee
Roast: Full Flavor
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La Esperanza, Huila, Colombia
Roasting Every Monday!

La Esperanza, is a jammy ripe dark plum saturated coffee, layered with tropical fruits and streaks of honeyed raw sugar cane. It is among the finest of any Colombian I have had, an exemplary coffee revealing a peak expression of Colombian terroir.

The owner of La Esperanza, Isaias Cantillo Osa, is very modest in speech and presence yet displays a striking determination and independence of mind supported by intuition and real ingenuity when it comes to farm management and quality development. He started as a coffee picker and worked his way over many years toward being able to buy a tiny farm with his savings. He then bought coffee seeds over time from nearby farms accumulating quite a collection of varieties along the way. He resisted "the establishment's" urgings to replant his farm with more productive Arabica cultivars and his farm is now a museum of Arabicas, some rarely seen these days, most of which are low producing but prized for quality.

To read a more detailed description of the farm and coffee, please click here.

Please click here to view more images of this coffee farm.


Please order online or call (866) 444-5282
Farmer: Isaias Cantillo Osa
Region: Huila
Altitude: 5,500 ft.
Rainfall: Moderate+
Soil: Franco Arciloso
Arabica variety: San Bernardo, Bourbon, Typica, Caturra, V de Colombia
Size of Farm: 6 acres of coffee
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La Esmeralda, Boquette, Panama
Roasting Monday, August 25th in our Full Flavor roast!

La Esmeralda has won the Best of Panama Competition every year since it first appeared in 2004 when it took the international jury by storm. Gesha, an Arabica coffee variety exported from the wild forests of Ethiopia in 1931, was introduced into Central America in the 1950’s. It was a disappointment back then because its production was quite poor and so very little was grown. Then in 2004 Price Peterson and his son Daniel decided to change their coffee entry into the yearly Panama coffee competition, selecting only their Gesha variety instead of the blend of coffee varieties they had been offering up before. Gesha is now the rage.

La Esmeralda deserves great praise not only for their original vision but for how well crafted the coffee is. Their quality continues to improve. La Esmeralda’s great sweetness indicates real care in picking strictly ripe fruit.

Powerful aromatic plumes of full-bodied sweet ripe apricot, mango and sparkling peach laced with nutmeg and jasmine.

$22.95 per 8 oz. roasted.
Please order online or call (866) 444-5282
Farmer: Price and Daniel Peterson
Region: Boquete
Altitude: 5,200 ft.
Rainfall: high
Soil: ?
Arabica variety: Gesha
Size of Farm: 123.6 acres, 3% of which is La Esmeralda Especial

Check here for our roast schedule of limited edition coffees

* Note 1 -- orders received will not be shipped until the ROAST DATE indicated per the schedule; and 2 -- orders received that include REGULAR COFFEE items in addition to scheduled Limited Edition coffees will be shipped in separate shipments, when available unless a message in the Notes Box indicates to ship together.
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