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Never Bet Against Mexico

June 17, 2025

From Mexico Sourcing & Sales Lead Adam McClellan For us, Mexico sourcing is a labor of love—with emphasis on the labor as much as the love. It’s difficult to convey…

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Logistics

Stability Through Logistics

June 10, 2025

Measuring and mitigating qualitative risk is a critical component of any trading company working with higher-end specialty coffee. Coffee is a perishable imported good. Anyone can travel to origin to…

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Quality

Signal Detection Cupping: Quantitative Analysis is King

May 22, 2025

As the Specialty Coffee Association brings a more subjective and qualitative form of coffee quality analysis to the forefront of the coffee industry with its Coffee Value Assessment, we at…

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News

How Roasters Are Meeting the Moment Amid High Prices & Tariffs

April 10, 2025

The coffee industry is facing a complex moment: first, a high and volatile C Market coupled with accompanying huge global green coffee price increases and low global coffee stocks, and…

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Sourcing

Building Stability: Quality & Logistics in Oaxaca 2025

March 20, 2025

We’re deep in harvest in Oaxaca—cupping at full speed in the lab, working directly with individual farmers and small local community groups, hands-on at the local dry mill to monitor…

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Sourcing

Mexico Veracruz & Chiapas: Building Stability At Every Link of the Supply Chain

February 27, 2025

We’re kicking off Mexico season with Veracruz and Chiapas, where the harvest is going full-force. Our Mexico team has been hard at work since before harvest, traveling constantly from community…

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Quality

Boots on the Ground in Lima & Oaxaca: Pt 2

November 13, 2024

When we meet new prospective partners at any link of the supply chain, one of the first things we usually talk about is our headquarters in Lima, Peru, and Oaxaca,…

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Quality

Boots on the Ground in Lima & Oaxaca: Pt 1

September 25, 2024

When we meet new prospective partners at any link of the supply chain, one of the first things we usually talk about is our headquarters in Lima, Peru, and Oaxaca,…

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Quality

Eyes on Milling: QC Keys

August 14, 2024

Every coffee starts its life as the seed of a fruit, then is processed out of the fruit down to its parchment layer. After that, all coffees go through milling…

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