George Howell's Terroir Coffee

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Kangocho, Nyeri, Kenya
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.

Please click here to view more images of this coffee farm.
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Ademe Bedane, Sidamo, Ethiopia, Espresso

Certified Organic
Northern Italian Style Espresso Roast

Creamy delicately perfumed candy-lemon and mellow apricot enfolded within a rich milk-chocolate base.

This coffee comes from the Sidamo region adjacent to Yirgacheffe and it rivals the finest coffees from that more famous region. At least this one does – easily. Ademe Bedane is a private washing station that purchases cherry from the surrounding farms which are all very small. They typically pay prices higher than often less well-run cooperatives and get better qualities. These are very high grown from 5,000 to well over 6,000 feet in altitude. Rainfall is just enough.

Northern Italian Style Espresso Roast

Region/Location: Sidamo Region/Dara District/Bonko Farm area.
Certification: Organic certified by BCS
Altitude: 1.700-2.100 meter above sea level
Variety: local varieties
Soil: Red clay soil fertile
Period of harvest:- Dec/Jan
Production method: Washed Method
Sun dried
Amount of farmers: 300 farmers
Average farm size : 0.75-1 Hectare
Shade grown
Annual rainfall: 1,100-1,200 mm
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Konga Cooperative Reserve, Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia

Limited Edition Reserve Lot!
Roasting on Mondays Only!

We paid extra for this small specially prepared lot from the Fair Trade certified Konga Cooperative. The coffee is organic as well. 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 coffee is grown at over 6,000 feet in altitude. This Konga also has that lush full-bodied apricot core with exceptionally pronounced clarity and sweetness.

Yirgacheffe is one of the great aromatic coffees of the world. It is often used in the finest Italian espresso blends, such as Illy, to add a critical floral element. The scientist- quality coffee pioneer Ernesto Illy (Illy Coffee) stated at the SCAA Conference in Boston, 2003 that the coffee of this region shared an aromatic component found in Darjeeling tea and Chanel #5.

Favorite of Food & Wine Magazine, March 2006

Roast Style: Full Flavor Roast
Harvest: 2006
Altitude: over 6,000 feet
Soil: volcanic
Arabica Variety: Ethiopica

Please 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 on the date that the limited coffee is roasted to minimize your shipping cost, UNLESS you leave a message in the Notes Box indicating you want us to ship your regular coffee separately.
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Cup of Excellence

Flor de Mayo, Bolivia Presidential COE winner

Roasting Monday June 29th!

I couldn't be more pleased! This coffee just arrived, beautifully packaged and perfectly preserved, at our facilities. This is very sweet, smooth coffee with warm chocolate, peach and orange fruit notes singing in unison. It is 30% heirloom Typica and 70% Caturra, a great varietal mix, in my opinion. Altitude is at over 5,000 feet. The owner, Pedro Castro Canaruna, started as a laborer who saved enough money by age 35 to buy a small plot of land and has gone on from there. The year before he won twentieth place in Cup of Excellence - and now second place along with the Presidential prize.

Please 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 on the date that the limited coffee is roasted to minimize your shipping cost, UNLESS you leave a message in the Notes Box indicating you want us to ship your regular coffee separately.
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Kabuye Cooperative, Rwanda COE Winner!

Next roast July 13th!

This is a Bourbon coffee grown at over 6,000 feet by over one hundred farmers with tiny plots of land. The picking and milling is done with extreme care. While late in arriving, the vacuum sealed packaging, so strongly promoted by Terroir Coffee over the past years, served its purpose well. If you like the Rwanda Buf Coffee we currently have been offering, you will love this coffee: there is no aginess at all - and its special caramel-almond, tangerine-honey notes sweetly ring with wonderful clarity.

Please 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 on the date that the limited coffee is roasted to minimize your shipping cost, UNLESS you leave a message in the Notes Box indicating you want us to ship your regular coffee separately.

La Lainez, Cup of Excellence, El Salvador

Roasting Monday June 22nd

Coffees from El Salvador may be the sweetest coffees of Central America, and 2008 Cup of Excellence winner La Lainez is a perfect example. Grown at over 5,000 feet this very small lot is an exceptionally elegant, silky coffee layered with light chocolate, caramelized apple, ripe raspberry and soft citrus flavors smoothly arching into a clean, sweetly lingering aftertaste. This is a coffee which builds harmoniously with every sip.

Please 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 on the date that the limited coffee is roasted to minimize your shipping cost, UNLESS you leave a message in the Notes Box indicating you want us to ship your regular coffee separately.
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India

Iced Coffee Sets

Bolivia

Flor de Mayo, Bolivia Presidential COE winner

Kenya

Grand Cru Kenya: Mamuto, Kirinyaga

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: Bourbon Sl 28 and SL 34
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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Kiamariga, Nyeri, Kenya
Next Roast on Monday, July 6th 2009!

We have held back our most spectacular coffee from Kenya until now, kept in perfect condition with our special storage system. It is a small, vintage lot which we will roast from time to time. The cup is saturated with immaculately transparent perfectly ripe succulent blackberry subtly layered with traces of plum and dark red cherries. It is without trace of astringency, having great layered depth and a velvet-soft sweetly disappearing finish - a Kenya of unforced power, full body and great elegance.

The Kiamariga Cooperative mill is about 100 miles north of Nairobi in the great coffee-growing Nyeri district. It serves over one thousand small growers who live nearby at around five thousand feet in altitude on the edge of the Mt. Kenya forest. The average farm size is a half acre with an average of 250 trees each. I visited Solomon Dei, a member of Kiamariga, at his farm, seen on right. The Kiamariga mill is seen below, early in the morning. The green coffee, drying on racks, is still covered in yellow plastic to protect from morning dew and possible rainfall overnight. Fermentation tanks with roofs protecting from the sun are on the left, and curing of recently dried coffee is in the large structure to the right, open on the sides for proper ventilation. Full flavor roasted.

Region: Nyeri
Altitude: 5,000+ ft.
Rainfall: moderate
Soil: Volcanic loam
Arabica variety: Bourbon SL 28 and SL 34
Average size of farms: 0.5 acres

Please 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 on the date that the limited coffee is roasted to minimize your shipping cost, UNLESS you leave a message in the Notes Box indicating you want us to ship your regular coffee separately.
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Ndiara Estate, Kirinyaga, Kenya

A Special Edition Coffee Roasting Every Monday!

Ndiara is another powerful coffee from Kirinyaga, easily an equal, in my opinion, to Mamuto and very different. If ever there was a coffee that should be called jammy, this is it (La Esperanza is the Colombian version of this…)! It presents massive body with a berry fruit-basket of flavors. If you have not tried it you should.

Ndiara is an eight acre farm in the Kirinyaga district on the southern slope of Mt. Kenya at 5,500 feet. It is named after a pre-historic site nearby. Mr. Daniel Waruri Muriuki started it in 1979 when he acquired the land and planted 6,000 Bourbon SL-28 and SL-34 coffee trees; he later added an additional 500 trees.

This is a must-try coffee for any Kenya coffee lover!

Please 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 on the date that the limited coffee is roasted to minimize your shipping cost, UNLESS you leave a message in the Notes Box indicating you want us to ship your regular coffee separately.

Please 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 on the date that the limited coffee is roasted to minimize your shipping cost, UNLESS you leave a message in the Notes Box indicating you want us to ship your regular coffee separately.
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Nicaragua

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El Salvador

Matalapa, La Libertad, El Salvador
On Sale for July!

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 DÃaz. 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 several years now and have been very impressed with each year's improvements since winning in the 2003 El Salvador Cup of Excellence. The 2008 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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El Molino, Santa Ana, El Salvador

Limited Edition Roast on Mondays Only!

El Molino is a medium sized farm just below and west of the live Santa Anna volcano, at an average altitude of 4,000 feet, which dominates El Salvador’s Pacific coast landscape. It has been in the Salaverria family for over 100 years. It has very good rainfall, well distributed. The beans are 100% Orange Bourbon; very rare, this cultivar is a spontaneous cross between the red and yellow forms of the heirloom Bourbon variety. El Molino has the classic sweet soft creamy texture of the best El Salvadors, with clementine notes and milk chocolate. A delightful cup from start to finish.

Farm: El Molino
Region: Santa Ana
Variety: Orange Bourbon

Please 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 on the date that the limited coffee is roasted to minimize your shipping cost, UNLESS you leave a message in the Notes Box indicating you want us to ship your regular coffee separately.
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La Lainez, Cup of Excellence, El Salvador

La Montaña, Chalatenango, El Salvador
La Montaña Returns July 20th!

La Montaña is all about balance and proportion. It gushes with layers of sweetness from hot to cold. Complex flavors of honey, rich, black Assam tea, malt, stone fruits and a touch of roses and soft lavender are finely woven together. It can truly be called a classic coffee.

La Montaña is made up of 100% Pacamara beans. Pacamara is a rare variety of Arabica coffee plant that produces very large beans. Despite their extra size they are dense and packed with unique sweet flavor notes when carefully produced. Pacamara is rapidly gaining a reputation in specialty coffee as one of the pinnacle varieties of Arabica coffee.

La Montaña has earned top scores in recent Central America Tasting at CoffeeReview: Prize-Winning Coffees from Central America and Colombia

Please order online or call (866) 444-5282
Farmer: Raúl Ochoa Hernández
Region: Chalatenango
Altitude: 4,500 ft
Rainfall: Moderate+
Soil: Clay loam
Arabica variety: Pacamara
Farm Size: 5.60 Hectares

* 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.

Colombia

Segundo Bravo's Alto Bonito, Nariño, Colombia

Each of these micro-lots is an exciting exploration for me and the Terroir team as it is for our customers. Jennifer and I selected these coffees as the best from a huge set of Nariño coffee samples last summer. While each share the Colombia Nariño profile, full-bodied black tea core bathed with bright, sweet suggestions of tropical fruits and a speck of wintergreen, each is unique.
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El Descanso, Huila, Colombia

We first bought coffee from El Descanso, meaning 'Rest, respite,' in the district of Huila during the 2006 Cup of Excellence auctions. Since then we have picked out El Descanso in blind cuppings every year as being outstanding on the table, a superb example of the Huila terroir.

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 Rainforest Alliance 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.
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Indonesia

Sumatra, Mandheling, Indonesia

The Sumatra Mandhelings we have been getting have all been exceptional. This new lot has a harvest-freshness which I have been seeking for years. It is the best Sumatra, ideal for Full Flavor roast, I have been able to find since Terroir Coffee first started in 2003. It has the same deep butterscotch sweetness of our recent Sumatra, which scored 94 points in Coffee Review, but almost none of the age. Coffees from Sumatra are still only packaged in jute bags and they invariably suffer from storage in Sumatra’s port, Medan and the long voyage here. This one, however, made it through just about unscathed. Getting the kind of Sumatra I want is like getting fresh baked bread - you want it when it is hot out of the oven. This one, shipped right after the harvest, is as close as it gets! Needless to say, we have repackaged the coffee into vacuum-sealed bags and frozen them. Click here for more details on our unique packaging of green coffee protocols.

The coffee beans were harvested in the region of Lintong from various Arabica cultivars including some with ancient lineage going back to the early Dutch plantings of the early seventeenth century. It is a coffee which has been selected and processed under the specifications of Bill McAlpin, founder of La Minita. There is no other Sumatra Mandheling in the US that can hold a candle to it 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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Toarco, Toraja, Sulawesi, Indonesia

Limited Edition roasting on Mondays Only!

The coffee formerly known as Celebes returns and it is a far better quality version than ever before. Toraja Toarco has taken on a certain legendary status amongst the coffee cognoscenti. It has been impossible to get any in the US because Toarco was developed and financed by Japan’s Key Coffee Company which sold all its production to the Japanese market. Coffee is grown there from moderate elevations to six thousand feet. Toarco works with over 7000 families to produce this coffee.

The coffee cup exhibits notes of malt and nutmeg-spiced dark honey. The beans are peaberries which are round shaped; they have been separated from the common flat beans using sieves. Peaberries grow in single seed coffee cherries, as opposed to paired, and typically develop near the tips of a coffee tree’s branches. A coffee tree will produce about 5% peaberries. They often have a slightly higher acidity than their flat bean counterparts. This lot has a very pleasant smooth fruity liveliness in the cup.

Please 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 on the date that the limited coffee is roasted to minimize your shipping cost, UNLESS you leave a message in the Notes Box indicating you want us to ship your regular coffee separately.
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Ethiopia

Ademe Bedane, Bonko Sidamo, Ethiopia

Certified Organic
Full Flavor Roast

Powerful floral aroma. Mellow apricot and sweet lemon flavors with a hint of ginger.

This coffee comes from the Sidamo region adjacent to Yirgacheffe and it rivals the finest coffees from that more famous region. At least this one does – easily. Ademe Bedane is a private washing station that purchases cherry from the surrounding farms which are all very small. They typically pay prices higher than often less well-run cooperatives and get better qualities. These are very high grown from 5,000 to well over 6,000 feet in altitude. Rainfall is just enough. I believe this lot is superior to the Konga Cooperative coffee we had the past year, having a deeper more apricot-peach centered flavor along with candied lemon (however, if you want a new experience in washed Ethiopian coffees try our Special New Crop Konga, below).

Full Flavor Roast

Region/Location: Sidamo Region/Dara District/Bonko Farm area.
Certification: Organic certified by BCS
Altitude: 1.700-2.100 meter above sea level
Variety: local varieties
Soil: Red clay soil fertile
Period of harvest:- Dec/Jan
Production method: Washed Method
Sun dried
Amount of farmers: 300 farmers
Average farm size : 0.75-1 Hectare
Shade grown
Annual rainfall: 1,100-1,200 mm
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Ademe Bedane, Sidamo, Ethiopia, Espresso

Konga Cooperative Reserve, Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia

Rwanda

Rwanda, Buf Coffee Mills

Creamy milk and dark chocolate plus a touch of pecan laced with notes of red cherry and a trace of aromatic candied lemon.

We have just received our first coffee from Rwanda since 2006. We have held back these past two years, despite Rwanda's growing quality reputation in specialty coffee, because it was extremely difficult to ship their coffee in a timely manner. By the time it arrived on our shores it was tired and veined with woody notes of age. A more concerted effort was made at origin this year and, at last, coffees that have survived the long journey are here, intact. This coffee is like the very first Rwanda Karaba we had in 2005. It is, in fact, from the same general region. Our lot is from one of the top sources of Rwanda, Buf Coffee, which won three prizes in this year's Cup of Excellence...

Buf Coffee is owned by Epiphanie Mukashyaka, a survivor of the 1994 Rwanda genocide and an inspiration to Rwandan women for her dynamic role in the development of specialty coffee. Our lot is a blend of coffees from two of her mills, a few dozen miles distant from each other, in the south-southwestern section of Rwanda. Both are on the eastern flank of a mountain chain dotted with tiny farms at between 5,250 feet and 6,250 feet in altitude that runs from Uganda in the north to Burundi in the south. The Nyarusiza mill is in Gikongoro province while Nkongoro is in adjoining Butare province. The soil in both areas is clay mixed with sand and rainfall is very moderate, averaging 55 inches per year. Strictly heirloom Bourbon coffee trees are grown. While I did not visit these mills when I visited Rwanda last August, I was in the region; click here to see my photographs, with comments, of the coffee-growing area around Butare.

Many hundreds of farmers sell their coffee cherry to the well-run Buf Coffee mills. A farmer typically has between 200 to 1000 coffee trees, each producing well under one pound of green coffee to be roasted (another minimum 15% weight loss). The mill depulps the coffee fruit, then removes all fruit residue still coating the beans by fermentation lasting about twenty four hours, then washes off all fruit and simultaneously separates the best, densest beans by use of turbulent water flow and gravity through concrete channels. The beans are finally soaked for another set of hours and then dried on raised racks over a period of about a week. This is painstaking work that must be done precisely to preserve the unique aromatics imparted to the coffee beans by that region's terroir.
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Kabuye Cooperative, Rwanda COE Winner!

Panama

La Esmeralda, Boquette, Panama

Next Roast July 27th, 2009!

Awarded a 95 Point score on Ken David's Coffee Review! Click here to read the full review.

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

Please 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 on the date that the limited coffee is roasted to minimize your shipping cost, UNLESS you leave a message in the Notes Box indicating you want us to ship your regular coffee separately.

Costa Rica

Decaf La Magnolia, Tres Rios, Costa Rica

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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Brazil

Daterra Farm Special Reserve, Cerrado, Brazil

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
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Daterra, North Italian Style Espresso

On Sale for July!

A "light" dark roast in the tradition of Northern Italy (Milan - Trieste). Terroir has carefully blended several Daterra Farm varieties to produce this exceptionally sweet, full bodied coffee.

As an espresso, it has a floral, cocoa- almond aroma. The cup is elegant, smooth, of one piece from first contact to aftertaste. It is honey textured, extra-sweet and lively, with notes of mellow clean fruit, chocolate, nuts and refined butter-marzipan. Other brewing methods produce a rich very mellow, low acid cup with complex nutty-chocolate flavors.

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!
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Guatemala

Roasters Choice

Decaffeinated

Decaf La Magnolia, Tres Rios, Costa Rica

Espresso

Daterra, North Italian Style Espresso

Ademe Bedane, Sidamo, Ethiopia, Espresso

Limited Edition

Flor de Mayo, Bolivia Presidential COE winner

Kiamariga, Nyeri, Kenya
Next Roast on Monday, July 6th 2009!

Kabuye Cooperative, Rwanda COE Winner!

Toarco, Toraja, Sulawesi, Indonesia

El Molino, Santa Ana, El Salvador

Konga Cooperative Reserve, Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia

Ndiara Estate, Kirinyaga, Kenya

La Lainez, Cup of Excellence, El Salvador

La Esmeralda, Boquette, Panama

La Montaña, Chalatenango, El Salvador
La Montaña Returns July 20th!

La Montaña is all about balance and proportion. It gushes with layers of sweetness from hot to cold. Complex flavors of honey, rich, black Assam tea, malt, stone fruits and a touch of roses and soft lavender are finely woven together. It can truly be called a classic coffee.

La Montaña is made up of 100% Pacamara beans. Pacamara is a rare variety of Arabica coffee plant that produces very large beans. Despite their extra size they are dense and packed with unique sweet flavor notes when carefully produced. Pacamara is rapidly gaining a reputation in specialty coffee as one of the pinnacle varieties of Arabica coffee.

La Montaña has earned top scores in recent Central America Tasting at CoffeeReview: Prize-Winning Coffees from Central America and Colombia

Please order online or call (866) 444-5282
Farmer: Raúl Ochoa Hernández
Region: Chalatenango
Altitude: 4,500 ft
Rainfall: Moderate+
Soil: Clay loam
Arabica variety: Pacamara
Farm Size: 5.60 Hectares

* 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.

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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