India Ratnagiri Estate Honey
(Heavily disputed) legend has it, that coffee’s earliest cultivation outside Yemen and Ethiopia was in the West of India in the Bababudangiri mountain range that now shares its name with the eponymous Sufi mystic, Brother Baba Budan, responsible for smuggling seven seeds out of the Yemeni port of Mokha in his robes
Guatemala Union Cantinil
Huehuetenango is one of Guatemala’s most respected coffee origins, lying in the West of the Country, close to the border with Mexico. Union Cantinil, composed of coffee farmers in the high mountains to the North and West of the city of Huehuetenago, produces coffees mostly processed at farm level.
Kenya Karuthi AA
Kenyan coffees are rightly prized for their vibrant acidity, full body, high sweetness and characteristic flavours of blackberry, cherry and citrus. This example is from the Karuthi washing station, part of the Othaya Farmers Co-operative Society in Nyeri County.
Sumatra Koperasi Buana Mandiri
Located in the Bener Mariah Regency of Aceh province, Northern Sumatra, Buana Mandiri co-operative (Koperasi) has more than 2000 members and produces characteristic wet-hulled coffees..
Nicaragua Peralta Estates Anaerobic Natural
In 2008 brothers Julio and Octavio Peralta shifted their focus to developing unique specialty preparations from the family coffee farm that has been in operation since the early 20th Century…
Colombia Planadas Seleccion
I first started working with producers from this area in 2017, and visited Planadas in 2018 to be offered delicious coffees ranging from experimental varietals and processes to larger lots which have remained consistent ever since.