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Exceptional Coffee: Edin Lopez Gesha (2026)

Gesha is a delicate, low yielding variety that can be very difficult to cultivate, hence its scarcity. When grown, harvested, processed, and roasted well, it produces an exceptional cup with floral...

Brazil - Coração de Melão (2026)

Born into an agricultural family in Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state of Brazil, Inácio Urban moved north to Minas Gerais in the 1980s to pursue the incredible opportunity he saw...

Peru - Lucía Muñoz (2026)

Lucía produces fully washed coffee using an extended anoxic fermentation - that is, fermentation in an environment that is low in ambient oxygen. She begins by sealing intact coffee fruits...

Burundi - Bavyeyi (2026)

Nearly all of the coffee grown throughout Burundi is red bourbon or a very closely related variety like Jackson or Mibrizi - partly due to the country's relatively recent start in coffee production...

Honduras - Edin Lopez (2026)

Since the early 2000s, thanks to the extended Paz family and competitions like the Cup of Excellence, San Vicente has helped establish Honduras as a source of some of the world's very best coffees...

Ethiopia - Suke Quto (2026)

Tesfaye Bekele founded Suke Quto in 2000 in the aftermath of a series of wildfires in the forests of Guji, Ethiopia. At the time, he was working for Ethiopia's national forestry service...

Peru - Los Tulipanes (2026)

Los Tulipanes is a honey processed coffee produced by the team at Cultivar using early-season deliveries from some of their partner farms...

Colombia - Nuevo Horizonte (2026)

Elmer Sarmiento is one of roughly 200 producers in the community of Santa María who sell coffee to Cuatro Vientos, our sourcing partners in Huila, Colombia...