June 17, 2025

Never Bet Against Mexico

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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Shipping Update

Early Arrivals & Armada of Afloat Coffee Offer Solace Amid Tariff Uncertainty: Q2 2025

April 17, 2025

We would love a boring quarter, but that’s not the outlook that Q2 2025 is bringing. As an uncertain tariff landscape piles onto an already high C market & a…

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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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Sourcing

Ethiopia G2s: Exceptional Value in Exceptional Times

February 5, 2025

As Ethiopia’s first shipments make their way to the states and the C market hits unprecedented highs, we want to shine a spotlight on the G2 coffees we’re offering out…

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Sourcing

Kenya Season Brings New Regulatory Landscape + Great Coffee

January 30, 2025

As Kenya’s early season continues, we’re shipping our second round of lots, all ready and available to book. We’ve distributed our purchasing across AA/AB/PB grades, showcasing all 3 with certain…

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Shipping Update

Market & Logistics Volatility, Looking to the Future: Q1 2025

January 16, 2025

As we close out a complex quarter in a complex year & head into Q1 of 2025, we’re looking forward to the early shipment & arrival of gorgeous East Africa…

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