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New single origin GUATEMALAFRANCISCOMARTÍNEZ By Intelligentsia Sourcing | August 28, 2024 New single origin GUATEMALAFRANCISCOMARTÍNEZ By Intelligentsia Sourcing | August 28, 2024 New single origin COLOMBIASTRIPED RED BOURBON COLOMBIASTRIPED RED BOURBON By Intelligentsia Sourcing | January 26, 2024 The Variety Huehuetenango Pronounced way-way-teh-nan-go and often simply called Huehue, this remote, mountainous area is home to famed high-altitude coffee towns, celebrated for their complex, fruit-forward coffees. Nestled in valleys and clinging to mountains that rise from the winding roads leading to Mexico’s southern border, farms sit as high as 2,000 meters above sea level. The steep terrain makes harvesting, processing, and...

New single origin ETHIOPIA ALAKAWASHED By Intelligentsia Sourcing | Aug 30, 2024 New single origin ETHIOPIAALAKAWASHED By Intelligentsia Sourcing | August 30, 2024 New single origin COLOMBIASTRIPED RED BOURBON COLOMBIASTRIPED RED BOURBON By Intelligentsia Sourcing | January 26, 2024 The Variety Metad Within Ethiopia, we have yet to find anyone producing more flavorful coffees more consistently than the Adinew family operation, METAD. As operators of the first CQI-certified lab in Africa, the highly trained teams at METAD washing stations apply best-in-class quality control processes to create opportunities for thousands of smallholder coffee growers. We first partnered with METAD just over...

New single origin ETHIOPIA ALAKANATURAL By Intelligentsia Sourcing | Aug 30, 2024 The Variety Ethiopia As the birthplace of coffee, coffee isn’t merely well-adapted to Ethiopia’s terroir, it evolved in the understory of the majestic forests of what is today Ethiopia. It should come as no surprise, then, that the heirloom varieties still grown there produce flavors that can’t be found anywhere else on earth. Each region and subregion of Ethiopia has its own terroir, leading to a remarkable amount of diversity within the country when it comes to the flavor expression — from peach to strawberry to jasmine blossom,...

New ORGANIC SPECIAL SELECTION PERU RAYOSDEL SOL GEISHA By Intelligentsia Sourcing | July 19, 2024 New ORGANIC SPECIAL SELECTION PERU RAYOSDEL SOLGEISHA By Intelligentsia Sourcing | July 19, 2024 New single origin COLOMBIASTRIPED RED BOURBON COLOMBIASTRIPED RED BOURBON By Intelligentsia Sourcing | January 26, 2024 The Variety Rayos Del Sol & Percy Pintado Nestled in the heights of Alto Ihuamaca, San Ignacio, Cajamarca, lies a third-generation coffee farm dedicated to quality and innovation. Situated at an altitude of 1,800 meters, this farm cultivates Bourbon, Caturra, and Catimor, and has more recently ventured into planting a small, one hectare plot of...

New single origin EL SALVADOR MALACARASL-28 By Intelligentsia Sourcing | June 28, 2024 New single origin EL SALVADORMALACARASL-28 By Intelligentsia Sourcing | June 28, 2024 New single origin COLOMBIASTRIPED RED BOURBON COLOMBIASTRIPED RED BOURBON By Intelligentsia Sourcing | January 26, 2024 The Variety A Storied Past This farm Jose Guillermo ‘Epe’ Alvarez is balancing tradition with innovation at Finca Malacara, the fabled Salvadoran coffee estate established by his great-grandparents in 1888.Back then, the stately Bourbon cultivar was dominant in El Salvador, and a key part of the country’s claims to be the source of the world’s finest coffee. So, the...