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Very Special Selections

Indian Monsoon Malabar AA

Get ready for Mega-Earth! The 2nd heaviest bodied coffee next to Java. This coffee's uniqueness stems from the manner in which it is processed. That is, left to age naturally in the monsoonal weather of India. The resulting green beans are, in fact, not green at all, but a bleached, yellowish white. They are very good as a portion of an espresso blend, and a true adventure straight. Roll up your sleeves on this one!

Jamaican Blue Mountain

Mavis Bank's finest - Can you say Super Mellow? This world-famous coffee comes to us from the mountains in the center of the island, that is, the Blue Mountains of course! A limited production of coffee, packaged in 66 pound, this coffee is similar to Kona, but with a more pronounced creamy floralness. A medium acidity and medium body spell the day. 

Reserve your September delivery in 66 pound barrels now!  Available only in Limited Quanities.

Kauai Estate Reserve

From the tropical and quiet isle of Kauai. These coffees are grown on a 3,000 acre farm that is one of the only coffee farms in the world to utilize mechanized pickers to harvest the crop. Remember, this is a U.S. produced product! The ESTATE PEABERRY and ESTATE RESERVE are siginficantly identical in terms of taste profiles, that being a well balanced body versus acidity, plus nice overtones of fruitiness. A very nice coffee! The ESTATE RESERVE is a 17/18 screen, and the ESTATE PEABERRY is, well, peaberry!!!

Kona Fancy "Captain Cook"

Grown in the hills that rise from the Kona coast, near Honaunau, on the BIG ISLAND! Kona coffees are certified as such by the State of Hawaii Dept. of Agriculture, using 6 different grades of bean size, to be those coffees produced in an area about 20 miles long and 2 miles wide on the West coast of Hawaii. Grown in volcanic soil at an elevation of between 700 - 2,000 feet, it is a sun and machine dried coffee that exhibits what is regarded to be a perfectly balanced cup. Seemingly exact equal proportions of body and acidity produce a very mellow coffee with a nice touch of nuttiness. It roasts up clean, aromatic, big, and bold. Fancy's are 18 screen, and all Kona is shipped in 100 pound bags from our fellow U.S. citizens in the great State of Hawaii!

Puerto Rico Yauco Selecto A and AA

Yemen Mocha Mattari

Ethiopian Idido Misty Valley Organic

Can you say BLUEBERRY?  Because, if you can't, then move the heck over and let this bean speak!  Very, very nice and clean.  Available on the West Coast only and in extremely, and we mean extremely, limited quantity.  A coffee this good doesn't grow on trees; well, actually it does but in VERY SMALL quantities.  This is the "super natural" coffee which was recently featured prominently by a large and nameless (for our legal sake) West Coast/ Bay Area roaster retailer.  It also happens to be coffee from the same Ethiopian farm that won, hands down, at the PCCA Cupping Competition in 2006.  2008 Fresh crop and VERY TASTY.  You must give this beauty a spot on the table, AND on your offer board.  But, be forewarned, you will quickly decide you have room on your menu and find yourself reaching for the phone to order up and for your wallet...It is totally worth it.  Would I lie to you?  Try a little bit in a blend and watch the blueberry show through.  Our fresh shipment is in, it's hot and it is going FAST...

Below is the verbatim email from a "very satisfied" roaster, Bryan Joslin, owner of Mountain Phoenix Coffee Roaster in Colorado, to us after he ordered his first bag:

"I am SO GLAD you talked me into this coffee!!! The Idido is just crazy with blueberry!  I mean it's just a classic!  This is what coffee is about!  What else can I say!?  I mean, it's just perfect, it is literally a perfect coffee!  I laid a great roast down on it and it is just bursting with fruits and spices, and without being too light and grainy or too dark and carbony."

Bryan also added, "It's great as a drip coffee, especially out of our Fetco extractor, amazing!  It is almost a waste as a drip however, as it just comes to life as a straight espresso.  I have already blended a bit into our normal 'spro and I can forsee probably always having a bag around to add a few pounds to my espresso blend from now on!  It was the final step to really bring my blend up to world class standards.  Thank you! Thank you! Bryan" 

We could not have said it any better.

Papua New Guinea Purosa Peaberry

Cupped recently for approval and currently on the water with an ETA to Oakland of late Dec 08/early Jan 09.  Only 11 bags will make the cross-Pacific journey.  Rare, wonderfully concentrated in Peaberry form.  Everything great about the A and AA only more so, if you get what I am saying.  See our blog comments (available through our Links section) for a description of this coffee and how excited we are about this year's limited crop.   Don't blink.

Africa

Ethiopian Harrar Longberry

From the birthplace of coffee! Harrar is an unwashed, dry processed coffee and, as a result, is an earthy coffee with "huge wildness." Sharp acidity with a slight hint of wininess. Good for espresso to build sharpness, and also shows through in milk-based drinks. Best when medium roasted so acidity remains high.  Harrar is thought of as one of the finest examples of true coffee, meant to drink as a straight.  But, you are the boss...do as you please.

Ethiopian Yirgachefe - Grade 2

From the birthplace of coffee! Yirgachefe is a wet processed, washed coffee, not wild in taste. It has excellent heavy and enjoyable acidity, although not a Kenya-like acidity.  Good body, blueberry overtones and aroma, with a hint of floralness and wineyness in the finish. A GREAT stand alone coffee, but also can be a strong component in blends/espressos. 

Kenya AA EuroPrep Select and Select +

Can we have a drum roll for the most heavily acidic coffee? But, that is a good thing! The acidity here is the sharp flavor when you first take it in - an almost overwhelming snappy pop! Some new coffee drinkers (yes, there are such things) may see that as a defect, but it most clearly is not. Kenya uses an auction system to bring its coffee to market, and grades the coffees according to finish. We carry the AA which is the highest grade, and the EP (EuroPrep) which indicates it is processed to higher standards than other AA graded coffee. Anyway, this coffee has a great wineyness to it, with light body. The added plus is the berrylike finish. This coffee will let you know it is a legend.

Tanzania Peaberry A Select Plus

Zimbabwe AA Select

Asia & Pacific Rim

Celebes Kalossi - Toraja A

From the island of Celebes (Sulawasi). It is the most acidic of the Indonesians (however it remains a very low acidic coffee as with all Indonesians) but is more acidic than Javas and Sumatras. Good body, with a hint of spicyness and a hint of floral on the finish. Also has a creamyness to it, and can take any roast - even espresso. An under-rated Indonesian coffee!

Java Government Estate

Papua New Guinea Organic Purosa A

A Vournas Coffee Trading exclusive and a coffee that flew under the radar for awhile until a bunch of roasters discovered its beauty.  Good body (not as much as Javas), and a good bit of acidity for an island coffee, this bean has a nice spicyness and floralness, with strong hints of cocoa chocolate and carmel on the finish. It is excellent for blending and for espresso blends, but please drink it straight too - it shines as a straight! It takes a dark roast very well and puffs up nice and large after a friendly roast. This coffee is very much cleaner in the cup than most Sumatras. A truly wonderul coffee that should be a regular player in your house "coffee collection."  If we played favorites,  it would be the house favorite in the Vournas Coffee Trading stable.  If you haven't tasted the good news, what are you waiting for?

Papua New Guinea "Purosa Estate" AA

Wow, this is a good one.  From the far, far away land of Papua New Guinea, this coffee is amazing.  Good body (not as much as Javas, but on par with Celebes), and a light and nice acidity, this bean has sweet spicy, floral, and apricot tones, nice sized hints of cocoa/chocolate and a wonderful syrupy carmel on the finish. This coffee needs to be appreciated as the wonderful straight that it is.  Takes a dark roast very well and puffs up large.  We suggest you go a bit lighter on this bean and taste the complexities that never seem to end!  This coffee is much cleaner in the cup than Sumatras.  A rare, complex and wonderful house favorite!

Sumatra Mandheling Grade 1 Triple Picked +

For those who like very, very clean Sumatras.  Did I say VERY, VERY clean?  A fine example of the cleanest of the clean. 

Sumatra Mandheling Grade 1 Double Picked

Very nice, heavy bodied, not the kind of Sumatra you need a knife for but all the taste you expect in a sweet Sumatra.  You won't be picking the dirt out of your teeth with this one.

Timor Organic

Central America

Guatemala Antigua Azotea

A wonderful coffee from the area surrounding the Spanish colonial town of Antigua outside of Guatemala City. It is a genuine Antigua (not an "Antigua-type"). This coffee has good acidity and body, and a real nutty and somewhat spicy finish.

Mexican Chiapas SHG Jaciento Estate

A Strictly High Grown coffee grown in the shade in tough and mountanous Southern Mexico. The Chiapas area is well suited to produce an almost Guatemala-like coffee, that is: medium body and medium acidity (though not as much as the Guatemalan Huehuetenango), with light hints of oak-like woodiness and some spice. It is a very versatile coffee that can be blended, roasted dark or light, extracted or (gulp!) flavored. And, they roast up nice and BIG!

Mexican Chiapas SHG "Rancho San Francisco Estate"

This is perhaps one of the most under rated and under valued coffees in Central America! Strictly High Grown with softer beans that develop a bit faster in your roaster, this coffee is grown using a significant amount of shade in tough and mountanous Southern Mexico. The Chiapas area is well suited to produce an almost "Guatemalaesque" coffee, that is: medium body and medium acidity (though not as much as the Guatemala Huehuetenango), with a nice oak woodiness and a hint of spice. It is one of the most versatile coffees around and can be blended, roasted dark or light, extracted or (gulp) flavored. And, they look great roasted - BIG!  Typica and Bourbon, with a few Caturra trees, this coffee is grown on a 150 hectare estate owned by two brothers, Delmar and Fernando Moreno Guillen.  The coffee is wet processed and sun dried, and grown natural and processed without chemical fertilizers (although not certified organic).

Nicaragua Matagalpa 18 screen SHG

18 screened and Strictly High Grown. The coffee producers have brought a crop that is best described as a "Plain Jane" coffee, but not in a bad way. This coffee has light body and light acidity, and could be called "Guatemala Light," but with a sweetness on the finish.

Panama Boquete SHB

A soft, mild coffee with medium to low acidity, a medium body, and a delicate floral sweetness with Jasmine overtones. Good preparation means just that. This is a principally single origin straight.

El Salvador SHG Organic "Santa Teresa Estate" RA

Mike found this estate during his travels in El Salvador a few years ago.  We have sourced this 100% Bourbon coffee, grown by Marcos and Teresa Batres of Batres Farms, ever since.  The quality has only gone up!  This coffee is now CERTIFIED ORGANIC,  and shade grown in the natural rainforest of the Apaneca-Lamatepec volcanic mountain range in Ahuachapan, western El Salvador, and is a Rainforest Alliance coffee.  Now the cool part of the story: This Batres Farms estate coffee is the world's only coffee processed and washed in a wet mill using warm, mineral spring water from the geothermal springs of the surrounding volcanoes!!! You have to see this mill to believe it!  But the real fun is drinking this coffee.  Grown at above 4000', this coffee is wet milled and gently sun and/or machine dried (depending on weather conditions).  A very pleasant cup with smooth mouthfeel and sweetness, great aroma, medium acidity and great body.  Subtle nuanced flavors of cocoa, tobacco, with floral and lemony hints on the pleasant, light and lingering finish.  A truly wonderful specialty 100% Bourbon coffee from beautiful El Salvador.  You will love it.  To this day it is one of Mike's favorites.

Honduras Marcala SHG

Now In Stock (East Coast only) - description coming soon!

Costa Rica SHB "El Tigre"

A Vournas Coffee Trading exclusive from a wonderful, multi-generation coffee familia in Heredia, Costa Rica.  This coffee is grown in the volcanic mountains northeast of San Jose.  The coffee is wet milled in their private mill, and then stored (rested) in parchment until the exact time the coffee is ready for shipment, and then, and only then, the coffee parchment is removed, the coffee sorted and prepared for shipment to us.  This fantastic Costa Rican has crisp, clean, bright acidity, a good snap, flowery (almost lemony) citrus with a slight hint of nuttiness in the finish.  Hand sorted - mechanical and sun dried.  Named after our mascot...

Guatemala Huehuetenango SHB "Finca Dulce Leonarda"

Meet our Guatemalan Huehuetenango SHB "Finca Dulce Leonarda," one of the top Guatemalan coffees we have tasted in a long, long time.  Harken back to the days before Guats became somewhat generic and you will recall that they could be profoundly interesting, a pleasant and clean cup, smooth mouthfeel and sweetness, great aroma, medium acidity and great nutty body.  The Dulce Leonarda has subtle nuanced flavors of a syrupy, carmelly cocoa with hints of tobacco and lemony citrus.  The lingering finish is pleasant and light. 

Grown on the Gustavo Mauricio Tello family estate in the La Libertatd region of Huehuetenango near the small village of La Mesilla, Guatemala, at an elevation of 5,000 to 5,400 feet, this Bourbon, Catuai and Caturra cultivar coffee is wet milled at the farm and dry milled in Esquintla at the exporter's mill.  Production of this 100% shade grown coffee from the 240 hectare family farm is limited to approximately 1,000 bags per year.  We think it is magnificent at a medium roast but you decide...Old time Huehuetenango is back!   

South America

Brazil Santos 17/18 screen

Brazil Prima Qualita 17/18 screen

A premium blend of three distinctly different Brazilian arabicas works to create a luscious, well balanced coffee.  Careful cupping research has resulted in a blend that mixes the aroma and light acidity from the finest farmed coffees in the south of Minas Gerais, with a sweet, full-bodied Cerrado from Monte Carmelo, and a touch of Otimo, a pulped cherry.

Dark roasted it is perfect for espresso, with rich, buttery crema and sought after Brazilian qualities.  With a medium roast, you can make a pot and enjoy a wonderful taste of the best of Brazil.  Screened 17/18/19, with a natural prep, sun and machine dried, this coffee has a wonderful aroma, medium acidity, and good body.  Enjoy the subtle nuanced sweetness on the finish with hints of floralness. 

Bolivia Organic "Colonial Caranavi"

Colombian Supremo Bucaramanga

Very mild coffee with good body and acidity. Has a fruity-floral finish, and a hint of spiciness! Very well balanced.

Colombian Excelso

Peru SHB Villa Rica

Fair Trade Certified

Bolivian Fair Trade Organic

Ethiopian Yirgachefe Fair Trade Organic

From the birthplace of coffee! Yirgachefe is a wet processed, washed coffee, not wild in taste. It has excellent heavy acidity (but lighter than the Kenyas) with good body. Ours has that sought after berry overtone with hint of floralness and wineyness in the finish.Great stand alone coffee, but also can be a strong component in blends/espressos.

Guatemala Fair Trade Organic

Mexican Fair Trade Organic

"El Triunfo" Organic HG/EP - East Coast only

Nicaraguan Fair Trade Organic and Org. S/W Decaf

Peru Fair Trade Organic

Sumatra Fair Trade Organic and Org S/W

Papua New Guinea F/T Organic A

Same fantastic coffee from the same producer Coop as our non-Fair Trade PNG Purosa.  You will LOVE this coffee!  It is also "grown in the shade" but not certified as such by anyone but Mike who saw it basking in the well-filtered sunlight with his own two eyes...

Cup description is noted in the Papua New Guinea Purosa A.

Costa Rica F/T Organic

"Guacamayo Arenal" EP/HB

Available at both warehouses in extremely limited quantities.

Dominican Republic F/T Organic

Organic "Barahona" coffee from the Dominican Republic - 132 pound bags.  Available out of East Coast only at this time.

El Salvador F/T Organic

Limited East Coast availability on this El Salvador HG/EP "San Mauricio"

Shade Grown & Organic

Bolivia Shade Grown and Organic

Good acidity, good body, with an intense floral and fruityness on the finish. One of the better cupping organics!

Colombian Organic

Costa Rica Organic

Guatemala Organic

Mexican Organic

Nicaraguan Organic

Papua New Guinea Organic A (Shade Grown - N/C)

Peru Organic

Sumatra Organic

Timor Organic

Decafs – Available in M/C, Natural, and Swiss Water processed.

Brazil

Colombian

Costa Rica

Ethiopia

Guatemala

Java

Kenya

Mexican Natural

FTO Papua New Guinea Purosa A and AX SWP

All the beauty of our Fair Trade Certified Papua New Guinea Organic A Purosa...without the buzz...

One helluva decaf coffee, if we say so ourselves.  (See the PNG Organic A Purosa description because, amazingly, there isn't much change with this decaf except the "caff" is gone, gone, gone thanks to the folks at Swiss Water Process in Vancouver, BC.

You're gonna love it...

Sumatra

Premium Espresso Blend SWP Decaf

Now Fair Trade Certified!  This unique decaf blend from Swiss Water is available in 66 pound and 132 pound bags.  A great and easy way to provide a good, clean decaf espresso.

FTO Cascadia Blend Swiss Water Process

Rainforest Alliance & Shade Grown

Cup of Excellence – Coming Soon!

Nicaragua "La Esperanza San Juan"

Please see the detailed description of this fantastic and limited coffee under our "Very Special Selections" category.