Hello Y'all

Bad News, our lovely Mtn. Meru Tanzania from last year arrived a bit old and faded. That's what a month a sea level in Dar Es Salam does. It's all sold out (blown out). Good News, Burundis! We have 600 bags of various quite interesting Burundis coming very soon. Watch out for this origin. Two trips this year, and a long one planned for next year to cup out the smaller incoming lots. J

Poa kichizi kama ndizi! Cool. . Crazy . .Like . . .Bananas
One of our top exporters used this term about us wanting to cup all the lots in the Tanzania auction, not just the mixed conainter that was blended together. Maybe it is "cool like bananas" to look through everything to find what's good, and what's really good. It's extra work, on our part, on their part, and for the contracting, but we think worth it, and so apparently do you. After a tough year last year in Tanzania on the shipping front, we are looking forward to the new Tanzies, and looking for our lots like the P0085 of a two years ago that rocked! Very complex, olive, lemon, pear, concord grape, rhubarb, oily body, with dry French champagne acidity.

We have two lots of the Rwanda Golden Cup available in 25# split bags.
We are offering lot #5--UCAR Washing Station and lot #6--Ngoma-MIG.
The costs are $11.94 and $10.24, respectively.
We are the only US importer offering these coffees.
The quantities of each are extremely limited and, as a result, we are limiting the amount that any one client can purchase (25# of each).
Please call today to set up shipment of your extremely rare Golden Cup Rwandans!

Our Colombian Supremo Seasonal Select Spectacled Bear is back. That's right, Spectacled Bear, not Speckled Bear. What's with the name, you ask?...

Our Matt Hupton came up with this idea a few years back and designed the program to give something back for this coffee that isn't known to be sustainably-grown. Doing research on Colombia and the native animals there, we ran across the cute Spectacled Bear, named such because he looks as if he's wearing spectacles!

So, we call the coffee the Spectacled Bear and we donate money from the sale of this coffee to the Wildlife Conservation Society (www.wcs.org) to study and help save the Spectacled Bear, which is endangered.

This coffee comes to us from different growing regions in Colombia, based on crop cycle and cup quality. We've seen coffees from Huila, Medellin, Narino and Cauca fill this label.

For more info on this coffee and program, check out the 'featured coffee' under our Colombia origin tab. And, to help support this program, BUY THE COFFEE!