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New single origin PERURAYOS DEL SOL By Intelligentsia Sourcing | March 29, 2024 New single origin PERU RAYOS DEL SOL By Intelligentsia Sourcing | March 29, 2024 New single origin COLOMBIASTRIPED RED BOURBON COLOMBIASTRIPED RED BOURBON By Intelligentsia Sourcing | January 26, 2024 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 above sea level, this farm cultivates Bourbon, Caturra, and Catimor, and has more recently ventured into planting a small plot of Geisha. Embracing a...

New single origin COLOMBIASTRIPED RED BOURBON By Intelligentsia Sourcing | January 26, 2024 New single origin COLOMBIASTRIPED RED BOURBON By Intelligentsia Sourcing | January 26, 2024 New single origin COLOMBIASTRIPED RED BOURBON COLOMBIASTRIPED RED BOURBON By Intelligentsia Sourcing | January 26, 2024 The Variety Finca Juan Martín Juan Martín is an experimental farm owned and operated by the Ruiz family's company Banexport, a leading exporter of Colombian specialty coffee that has been helping us source extraordinary coffee since 2010. Since 2016, our work with Banexport has focused on the Sotará region of Cauca where Finca Juan Martín is located. The...

New single origin COLOMBIAPINK BOURBON By Intelligentsia Sourcing | January 26, 2024 The Variety Pink Bourbon This is the enigmatic — and mildly controversial — "Pink Bourbon" cultivar. Both its provenance and even its very color are contested. While its membership in the Bourbon family makes it a direct heir to Typica and Ethiopian coffee genetics, there is some suggestion (especially in Colombia) that the "pink" variant is the product of incomplete breeding work done by the National Coffee Research Center. Anyone who has ever laid eyes on this curious cherry knows it isn't pink in the way that the...

New single origin KENYA KII AA By Intelligentsia Sourcing | February 2, 2024 The Variety Kenya = Smallholders There are over 600,000 smallholder farmers in Kenya who grow coffee on less than 3 hectares of land. Smallholders make up ~99% of coffee farmers in Kenya. Typically, these smallholders participate in a Farmer Cooperative which operates a "factory" that receives, processes, and dries coffee cherry. The Kii Coffee Factory The Rungeto Farmers Cooperative Society owns and operates the Kii Factory. Built in 1995, the Kii Factory sits at the base of Mt. Kenya (which is the second highest peak in Africa...

New single origin BURUNDI YANDARO By Intelligentsia Sourcing | December 15, 2024 There is Something You Should Know About Burundi There may be no other country with a greater disparity between what its coffee means to the world and what its coffee means for the country. Burundi is responsible for barely one-tenth of one percent of the world's coffee exports — we can live without Burundian coffee. But those coffee exports are responsible for more than half the country's employment and 70 percent of its total export earnings — Burundi cannot live without coffee. Burundi's Washing Stations There is something...