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India

Kenya

Karogoto, Nyeri, Kenya

Roasting Monday, May, 19th in our Full Flavor Roast! Last Roast of this fantastic crop!

For those seeking a full powered Kenya, our Karogoto, harvested in 2006 and beautifully preserved by our unique cool-temperature storage system, is it. It has that rare bold powerful blackberry-black currant flavor profile, so prized by Kenya coffee aficionados, that marks only a handful of lots from Kenya each year. It makes great, thirst-quenching berry fruit-laden iced coffee, by the way!

Karogoto is a small farmer cooperative processing center in the Nyeri region at 5,500 feet. This center is one of the best Kenya coffee producers, year after year. We carried it a few years ago and are happy to have it again. The average farm size is half an acre with the largest being only 2 acres. The average number of coffee trees per farm is 250 - each producing, at most, 1 pound of carefully hand-picked coffee per year.

Roast style: Full Flavor Roast
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Kangocho, Nyeri, Kenya

What a thrill to once again have a great lot from this cooperative mill after so many years! I first had coffee from Kangocho during my Coffee Connection days in the early 1990's, when I grasped what greatness Kenya coffees were capable of. Even better, we have obtained an exceptional lot, superior, in my opinion, to even our current Karogoto, which received 96 points from Coffee Review.

What makes this lot of Kangocho so special are its sumptuous mouthfeel and its sweet blueberry notes, melding so harmoniously with the classic grand Kenya riot of blackberry and black currant flavors. If you are not fully satisfied with this coffee we will be happy to issue you full credit for any other purchase.

Kangocho is a high altitude, small farmer cooperative coffee processing center in the Nyeri district.

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Grand Cru Kenya: Mamuto, Kirinyaga

Just back from my most recent travels to Kenya, I am thrilled to report the Mamuto crop is in! We first introduced Mamuto last year in September. I believe it was the best lot auctioned in Kenya that year (all Kenyan coffee lots were auctioned through 2006; this year the system was "liberalized," permitting direct sales as well as auction coffee). Last November our Mamuto received Coffee Review's first-ever score over 95. We now have Mamuto's best lot from the most recent harvest, November-December of 2006. We purchased this lot directly and without hesitation; it was, again, the most outstanding lot we tried this past buying season and we have been privileged to always cup the cream of the crop!

Taking inspiration from their family, Mr. Mathagu explained to me, he and his wife named the farm by combining the first two letters from three words: his name, Mathagu, as the father; Muthoni, his wife's maiden name, as mother; and toto, meaning child or children in Swahili: thus Mamuto. Mr. and Mrs. Mathagu have six children - three boys, three girls.

Farmer: Walter Paul and Muthoni Mathagu

Region: Kirinyaga
Altitude: 5,000 ft.
Rainfall: Low to moderate+
Soil: Volcanic loam
Arabica variety: 95% Bourbon Sl 28 and SL 34, 5% Ruiru 11
Size of Farm: 21 acres total; 13 acres of coffee
Roast: Full Flavor

Please Note:
Terroir will return an additional $2 directly to the farmer, Walter Paul Mathagu, for every bag of Mamuto sold at $20.95.

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Fair Trade & Organic

Konga Cooperative, Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia

The Konga Cooperative has 1683 farmers of which 133 are female heads of family. The average size of a farm is 1.25 acres on which coffee and various foods for

the local market are grown. Yirgacheffe is amazingly lush with vegetation. The coffees are grown at over 6,000 feet in altitude.

This coffee is refined and delicate. Darjeeling tea, sweet lemon and a hint of ginger give Yirgacheffe a unique flavor profile. This particular lot was the best we cupped last year and we made history by have it vacuum sealed and boxed in Ethiopia. The coffee has arrived at our facilities with its special perfume intact and without woodiness, something we have not enjoyed for several years! This Konga, taken black with no milk or sweetener, pairs ecstatically with dark chocolate. Much better than, um...dunking donuts...Favorite of Food & Wine Magazine, March 2006

Roast Style: Full Flavor Roast

Harvest: 2006
Altitude: over 6,000 feet
Soil: volcanic
Arabica Variety: Ethiopica

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Kangocho, Nyeri, Kenya

Bolivia

San Ignacio Farm, Bolivia COE 2007 Award Winner

Roasting Monday, May 12th in our Full Flavor Roast!

Premiere - Bolivia Cup of Excellence 2007 Presidential Award winner (over 90 score), San Ignacio Farm, full flavor roast: Juana Mamami Huanca from the San Ignacio cooperative is a first generation coffee producer.

She began producing coffee on her farm at the age of 16 and now at only 23 years of age she has earned second place in the Cup of Excellence in Bolivia. Juana participated in the 2005 competition but did not manage to take home a Cup of Excellence award. For the past two years she has worked to improve quality always with an eye towards competing again.

Her farm covers fifteen acres of lush hillsides in the Carrasco La Reserva region of the Caranavi province at an altitude of approximately 4,900 feet above sea-level. "I always planned to participate [in the competition]" she said, "and now I plan to increase my production and my quality of life." She is now working to establish an additional acre of coffee.

The farm has an abundance of shade trees. Production is carried out without the use of chemical fertilizers or pesticides but does not have organic certification.

- text from Cup of ExcellenceThe lack of certification is typical for very small farmers: it has been beyond her means. The price we paid should go a long way towards correcting that. Certification takes at least three years to get. The cup is medium bodied with black cherry, caramel and milk chocolate notes. The price is $34.95 per 8 ounces. Click here to order or call 866 GHH-JAVA.

Check here for our roast schedule of limited edition coffees.

* Note 1 -- orders received will not be shipped until the ROAST DATE indicated per the schedule; and 2 -- orders received that include REGULAR COFFEE items in addition to scheduled Limited Edition coffees will be shipped in separate shipments, when available unless a message in the Notes Box indicates to ship together.

Iced Coffee Sets

Cup of Excellence

El Descanso, Huila, Colombia
We first bought coffee from El Descanso, meaning 'Rest, respite,' in the district of Huila during last year's Cup of Excellence auctions. We now have a larger lot of this coffee due to arrive here in Early November.

Jesus Orlando Lopez merged his brother's farm and now owns 8 hectares (20 acres) of farmland at over 5,600 feet. He has been reforesting his land and has applied for the Rainforest certification.

Ripe, elegant and velvety, the cup is medium-bodied, suggesting honeyed citrus, plum, and pomegranate mingling with soft streaks of blackberry, aromatic, ripe pear, wintergreen, vanilla and rounded with chocolate truffle.

Farm: El Descanso
Farmer: Jesus Orlando Lopez
Region: Huila
Variety: Caturra
Altitude: 5,600 ft.
Rainfall: Moderate+
Roast: Full Flavor

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San Ignacio Farm, Bolivia COE 2007 Award Winner

Nicaragua

El Salvador

Matalapa, La Libertad, El Salvador
Matalapa is a fourth generation 190 acre farm at 4,100 feet above sea level. It was founded in the late 1800's by Fidelia Lima, great grandmother of the current owner, Vickie Ann Dalton de DÃaz. She maintains 14 acres of virgin tropical forest and keeps her coffee plants shaded with over forty varieties of shades trees.

I have been following this farm for three years now and have been very impressed with each year's improvements since winning in the 2003 El Salvador Cup of Excellence. The 2007 crop is very impressive for its sweetness and buttery body, ideal for espresso and French Press brewing.

100% Bourbon. Layers of refined deep sweet citrus with no edge coated with creamed nutty caramel.

Farm: Matalapa
Farmer: Vickie Ann Dalton de Diaz
Region: La Libertad
Altitude: 4,100 ft
Rainfall: 86 - 98 in. per year
Soil: Clay loam.
Varietal: 100% Bourbon
Vintage: 2007
Roast: Vienna

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Honduras

Colombia

La Esperanza, Huila, Colombia
Roasting Monday, May 5th in our Full Flavor Roast!

The 2007 Cup of Excellence First Prize winner, La Esperanza, is a jammy ripe dark plum saturated coffee, layered with tropical fruits and streaks of honeyed raw sugar cane. It is among the finest of any Colombian I have had, an exemplary coffee revealing a peak expression of Colombian terroir.

The owner of La Esperanza, Isaias Cantillo Osa, is very modest in speech and presence yet displays a striking determination and independence of mind supported by intuition and real ingenuity when it comes to farm management and quality development. He started as a coffee picker and worked his way over many years toward being able to buy a tiny farm with his savings. He then bought coffee seeds over time from nearby farms accumulating quite a collection of varieties along the way. He resisted "the establishment's" urgings to replant his farm with more productive Arabica cultivars and his farm is now a museum of Arabicas, some rarely seen these days, most of which are low producing but prized for quality.

To read a more detailed description of the farm and coffee, please click here.

Please click here to view more images of this coffee farm.

$31.95 per 8 oz. roasted.
Please order online or call (866) 444-5282
Farmer: Isaias Cantillo Osa
Region: Huila
Altitude: 5,500 ft.
Rainfall: Moderate+
Soil: Franco Arciloso
Arabica variety: San Bernardo, Bourbon, Typica, Caturra, V de Colombia
Size of Farm: 6 acres of coffee

Check here for our roast schedule of limited edition coffees.

* Note 1 -- orders received will not be shipped until the ROAST DATE indicated per the schedule; and 2 -- orders received that include REGULAR COFFEE items in addition to scheduled Limited Edition coffees will be shipped in separate shipments, when available unless a message in the Notes Box indicates to ship together.

Marco Aurelio's Villa Flor, Nariño, Colombia

Roasting Monday, May 19th in our Full Flavor Roast!

Marco Aurelio Ortega is another very small Colombian farmer deeply attached to the earth and its life-forces. We have been announcing his arrival in earlier newsletters. He uses only natural inputs and applies no chemicals to his farm. He grows medicinal and aromatic herbs, fruits and many different trees on his tiny 3 acre farm. He has even contoured his farm on the steep slopes, at 6,000 feet, something I am told again and again in Colombia that small farmers cannot afford - yet he has done it simply because he feels that erosion control is worth the effort. Marco Aurelia will be applying for organic certification, which practices he has long applied out of his own convictions. We are looking into importing his coffee-blossom honey which he currently sells to the local market...

Mr. Ortega produced 6 micro-lots this past summer. They were all exemplary (we picked his coffee out blind again and again). Drinking Villa Flor is like listening to a beautifully tuned stringed instrument. It sings. And then it disappears, like music. It is 100% of the Caturra variety at its best. This variety was created to increase production yet produce high quality; here the Caturra plants' high productivity is held back through the use of shade trees. Ortega's craftsmanship brings out delicate complex flavor notes of great clarity reminiscent of Burgundy's Pinot Noir. Villa Flor is a coffee that combines great delicacy with real spine. The cup has laser-like acidity that is all sweetness and light around a Brazil nut core wafting filigree wintergreen-tinged tropical fruit aromas from hot to cold with wisps of soft persimmons, essence of pomegranate and passion fruit. Villa Flor has a svelte yet sensuous body that derives purely from its oils and a natural sweetness without trace of edginess.

$15.95 per 8 oz. roasted.
Please order online or call (866) 444-5282
Farm: Farm: Villa Flor
Farmer: Marco Aurelio Ortega
Region: Nariño
Variety: Caturra
Altitude: 6,000 ft.
Vintage: 2007
Rainfall: moderate+
Roast: Full Flavor

Check here for our roast schedule of limited edition coffees

* Note 1 -- orders received will not be shipped until the ROAST DATE indicated per the schedule; and 2 -- orders received that include REGULAR COFFEE items in addition to scheduled Limited Edition coffees will be shipped in separate shipments, when available unless a message in the Notes Box indicates to ship together.
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Indonesia

Ethiopia

Konga Cooperative, Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia

The Konga Cooperative has 1683 farmers of which 133 are female heads of family. The average size of a farm is 1.25 acres on which coffee and various foods for

Rwanda

Panama

Costa Rica

Decaf La Magnolia, Tres Rios, Costa Rica

Temporarily out of stock. New crop arriving in May!

Full bodied and full flavored, with fine, richly blended nuts, sweet mellow peach and a trace of chocolate.

It is a rare treat to "eat my words", and enjoy the act or should I say drink? That is what a Swiss Water decaffeinated Costa Rican coffee forced me to do when Peter and I tasted it a few weeks ago. The Swiss Water people have truly mastered the method to produce the most outstanding decaf I have ever tasted. We promptly bought the coffee for all our enjoyment. It is hardly believable this coffee is decaffeinated!

The coffee is called La Magnolia, is from the famed Tres Rios growing region of Costa Rica and was collected by the folks at La Minita. Full bodied and full flavored, with fine, richly blended nuts, sweet mellow peach and a trace of chocolate.

Swiss Water Decaffeinated (chemical-free)
Altitude: 3,500 - 4,000 feet
Soil: Volcanic
Rainfall: Moderate
Variety: Caturra

Brazil

Daterra Farm Special Reserve, Cerrado, Brazil
New Crop Daterra Special Reserve!

The new crop Daterra Farm Special Reserve is a spectacular improvement over the past. This is still a wonderfully mellow coffee but with far more delicate clean fruit sweetness than in the past, giving a refined Beaujolais-like character to this coffee. It was harvested in late summer of 2007 from deep-rooted, low yield, very carefully hand-harvested Yellow Bourbon variety of Arabica. The owner of Daterra, Luis Pascoal, is a key coffee visionary in the quality coffee movement who never tires of tweaking everything he does one notch up every year for the quality of the coffee and for his social and environmental policies. He has done it again. Big notch, Luis! Daterra is Rainforest Alliance and Utz certified.

Favorite of Food & Wine Magazine, March 2006

Roast Style: Full Flavor Roast
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Opus 1 Low Caffeine, Daterra Farm, Cerrado, Brazil
Daterra Farm low-caffeine Opus 1, another Premiere!

Daterra has spent twelve and a half years developing a low-caffeine hybrid coffee plant; it is naturally bred and has about one third less caffeine than other Arabica varieties (under 1% compared to 1.2 to 1.9%). The coffee is delicate, with clean fresh fruit notes, excellent sweetness and refined aftertaste. The plant has quite low productivity and we have a limited supply.

Check here for our roast schedule of limited edition coffees.

* Note 1 -- orders received will not be shipped until the ROAST DATE indicated per the schedule; and 2 -- orders received that include REGULAR COFFEE items in addition to scheduled Limited Edition coffees will be shipped in separate shipments, when available unless a message in the Notes Box indicates to ship together.

Guatemala

Roasters Choice

Decaffeinated

Decaf La Magnolia, Tres Rios, Costa Rica

Espresso

Green Coffee

Limited Edition

San Ignacio Farm, Bolivia COE 2007 Award Winner

Marco Aurelio's Villa Flor, Nariño, Colombia

Books About Coffee

Mugs

Hand Made New England Pottery

We have chosen to carry a very limited number of very high quality mugs as gift ideas for the holidays. These mugs are all hand made in New England, and each one is unique and of high quality materials and superb workmanship.

The wide mouth mugs from Chocorua Village Pottery are of high density material and are heavy and durable, each holding about 15-16 ounces.

They are simply glazed with natural color earth tones and have a glossy glaze inside. We like these because the wide mouth allows the coffee to cool to the perfect temperature more quickly than a closed or straight shaped mug, while the high density material lengthens the time the coffee remains at the perfect drinking temperature.

While in Northern Maine George found these great Connie Harter-Bagley porcelain mugs. See George's write-up, below.

All products are being hand-made, fired and delivered in early November. We will start accepting orders November 16th. Shipments will start November 26th and continue while supplies last. Order early, these are not to be missed!

Chocorua Village Pottery

View the firing of these mugs.

There are four styles: a blue decoration, a hazel decoration, a black decoration and plain. Now these decorations bring a unique flavor to each style of mug. But I have to emphasize that wood fired pottery is extra special because the wood flue itself conveys a truly unique and special flavor to each individual piece. The position of the pottery in the kiln, the combination of different wood types (hardwood and soft wood), the ambient temperature and humidity on a particular day, all effect the way the kiln burns and the way the flames lap around each piece. And this affects the look of each piece and also the outcome of each firing. Each individual wood firing is like a unique trip into the unknown and each outcome is extra special because the unknowable variable of nature has a major effect of the outcome. That is why, in the world of pottery, wood fired pieces are very sought after.

These mugs truly are "terroir". And we hope they bring to you "a sense of place" from our unique area up here in the mountains of New Hampshire.

Aprox. 4-inches wide (top) by 3-1/3 inches tall and hold about 15oz


Black	Earth	Blue	Hazel	Set of Four (Limited QTYs)

Please click here to view the firing of these mugs.

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Connie Harter-Bagley

Connie's Mugs
While passing through northern Maine I found these great porcelain mugs. Not only do I really enjoy the bold calligraphic design - I love the tapered bowl, closing in towards the top, like a wine glass, that concentrates the aromas. Each is handmade. We have a very small supply! – George Howell

These are high-fired porcelain cups, making them very durable and safe in the dishwasher, microwave and oven.

Each individual cup is handmade with traditional methods using the wheel and carving tools then hand-decorated with Connie’s own unique palette of ceramic slips and glazes, and finally fired in a special kiln. Wide open handles make the cups very easy to hold.Small Mugs $18 ea
aprox. 3-1/2 inches wide by 3-1/2 inches tall and hold about 8oz.

Extra Large Mugs $22 ea
aprox. 4 inches wide by 4-1/2 inches tall and hold about 12oz.

Garden dragonfly is the name of the buttercup and avocado pattern.

Ocean Mist is the cobalt blue and sea green pattern.


Garden Dragonfly	Ocean Mist

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Grinders

Brewers

Technivorm Brewers

Clubline KB741

Thermo Chrome KB741T

The Technivorm line of automatic drip coffeemakers is the state-of-the-art for brewing perfect drip coffee time after time. These 1,475-Watt machines brew at the correct extraction temperature of 197-202˚ F, unlike others which have lower power heating elements. A full pot of coffee brews in 6.5 minutes flat, it is simple to use and easy to maintain. One year warranty. We carry two models of the Moccamaster CD, one with a glass carafe (Model # 9557, see left), and one with a vacuum stainless thermal carafe (KB741T Model # 9587 see right). These were designed by Gerard-Clement Smit, who was awarded this year's Technician Award by the Specialty Coffee Association of Europe (SCAE).

Note: Serving temperature of the coffee (different than extraction temperature) of the Thermo Model is approx 165 DegF. Serving temperature of the glass models is approximately 175-180 DegF due to the presence of a warming plate. We recommend taking the chill off of the Thermal Carafe by warming it briefly with hot tap water before brewing.

Click here to read our Technivorm Short-Form Design Review
Additional Reviews: CoffeeGeek

* Click here to visit our grinders informational page.

See this GRIND SAMPLE photo, which should print 1:1

Just print at 100% and compare your grinds with the ones on the sheet.
Other Grinds Coming Soon!

Technivorm Brewer SALE
Glass Model (Model #9557) NOW $219 (plus shipping, regularly $229)
Thermal Model (Model #9587 KB741) NOW $239 (plus shipping, regularly $250)

Free Scoop with any model technivorm brewer!

See technivorm brewing chart which reaches brew temperatures of 200 Deg F quickly and maintains proper brew temperature throughout the cycle, regardless of batch size. Several other brewers, also shown, brew at various temperatures, depending on batch size, and many do not reach proper extraction temperatures. Please click here to view the chart.

Please check our return policy before ordering these items.
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