ORIGIN: CHINA - An unlikely success story
The story of our Banka coffee is one of triumph over adversity. Rarely seen until recently, as a single origin in its glorious own-right, it is tim...
WE'RE SPINNING THE GLOBE TO BRAZIL!
NATURE…NURTURED Spin the globe to Brazil and you’ll be met with the fifth largest country on the planet; and one of the most abundant producers an...
Origin: ECUADOR, Hacienda La Papaya (microlot)
Ecuador is a brand-new origin for us so you can imagine our excitement! It’s also a country I find you don’t tend to hear about much and one that y...
Origin: MALAWI 'THE WARM HEART OF AFRICA'
My last blog post on Malawi was fairly specific to our coffee from the Mzuzu Cooperative. This time round, I did want to go into coffee production ...
Origin: Uganda, a somewhat uncommon origin for specialty coffee
With increased recognition for its quality of Arabica coffee, Uganda is now considered an established origin within the specialty market. A littl...
Origin: Dominican Republic
QUISQUEYA… …meaning ‘mother of lands’, an affectionate name given by the Dominicans to their country. The country takes up about half of the island...
CULTURE IN EVERY CUP: Finca Bethania, Nueva Segovia – Nicaragua (microlot coffee)
Nicaragua, as is the case with many Central American coffee producing countries, had coffee planted back in the 1800s. However, it wasn’t until the...
ORIGIN: RWANDA The KCRS Women's Cooperative
Rwanda, or rather to be correct, the Republic of Rwanda, is a small country located in the Great Lakes region of east-central Africa. It’s a landl...
The Tega & Tula farms of the Kaffa Forest, Ethiopia
Ethiopia, the birthplace of Coffea Arabica. As I mentioned on a previous blog post related to Ethiopia’s forest coffees, coffee trees have grown th...
Origin: Guatemala's promising Women Coffee Producers
Guatemala, a central American country which to be fair, I didn’t know much about before I got into coffee and to be honest, before writing this blo...
VIETNAM - It's not all about Robusta coffee
Did you know that Vietnam held its place as the second largest producer of coffee in the world? ‘Squeezed’ between Brazil and Colombia in 2018, Vie...
Origin: JAMAICA BLUE MOUNTAIN
So, this time I’m going to start this story with a little bit of a ‘silly’ fact: did you know that Jamaican Blue Mountain beans are the base of the...