Limited-Edition Coffees

Our Special Limited-Edition Coffees are scheduled on Mondays for your convenience.

Terroir Coffee purchases several micro-lots at dramatically greater expense because of their outstanding exemplary quality - well worth sharing with those who share our passion of searching for the ultimate cup. Panama's La Esmeralda which hit instant fame in Panama's 2004 competition is a prime example. Here was a new variety of Arabica coffee plant, called Geisha, with a stunningly different and exceedingly attractive flavor-profile. The folks at La Esmeralda have produced this coffee each year since. I believe this year is their best quality yet and have purchased some for our mutual delight. All of these limited edition coffees have been received in our roasting facility in pristine condition and are being kept that way using our special packaging and cold storage techniques.

The Special Limited-Edition Coffee Schedule

Upcoming Limited Edition Roasts:

Roasting Monday February 8th:
La Esmeralda, Boquete, Panama and
La Montaña, Chalatenango, El Salvador

Roasting Monday February 15th:
Ndiara, Kirinyaga, Kenya

Roasting Monday February 22nd:
Kiamariga, Nyeri, Kenya

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La Esmeralda, Boquete, Panama 2009 Crop!

Next Roast Monday February 8th!

Powerful aromatic plumes of full-bodied sweet ripe apricot, mango and sparkling peach laced with jasmine.

All La Esmeralda coffee is sold at auction in micro-lot sizes. Only 6,600 lbs were produced this year, half a normal year. First we received samples of all the micro lots available. We bid from the start for our favorite lot, from a section of the farm called Mario Carnaval. It is the oldest section of the farm, consistently selected as the first place winner for the Best of Panama competitions. While the bid price we had to pay was far, far steeper than the previous year it was a better coffee – more buttery and sweeter – and it went for lower prices than a few other lots which were higher grown but, in my opinion, less profound, balanced and layered. These lots were still higher grown; but I have learned that at a certain point, usually around 5,000 feet, higher altitude is not as important as micro-climate. I have seen this with certain Kenyas – like the great Mamuto which is around 5,000 feet in elevation

Farmer: Price and Daniel Peterson
Region: Boquete
Altitude: 4,900 – 5,400
Rainfall: high
Arabica variety: Gesha

Please 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 on the date that the limited coffee is roasted to minimize your shipping cost, UNLESS you leave a message in the Notes Box indicating you want us to ship your regular coffee separately.

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La Montaña, Chalatenango, El Salvador

Roasting on Mondays!

La Montaña is all about balance and proportion. It gushes with layers of sweetness from hot to cold. Complex flavors of honey, rich, black Assam tea, malt, stone fruits and a touch of roses and soft lavender are finely woven together. It can truly be called a classic coffee.

La Montaña is made up of 100% Pacamara beans. Pacamara is a rare variety of Arabica coffee plant that produces very large beans. Despite their extra size they are dense and packed with unique sweet flavor notes when carefully produced. Pacamara is rapidly gaining a reputation in specialty coffee as one of the pinnacle varieties of Arabica coffee.

La Montaña has earned top scores in recent Central America Tasting at CoffeeReview: Prize-Winning Coffees from Central America and Colombia

Farmer: Raúl Ochoa Hernández
Region: Chalatenango
Altitude: 4,500 ft
Rainfall: Moderate+
Soil: Clay loam
Arabica variety: Pacamara
Farm Size: 5.60 Hectares

Please 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 on the date that the limited coffee is roasted to minimize your shipping cost, UNLESS you leave a message in the Notes Box indicating you want us to ship your regular coffee separately.

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Ndiara Estate, Kirinyaga, Kenya

Next Roast Monday February 15th

Ndiara is another powerful coffee from Kirinyaga, easily an equal, in my opinion, to Mamuto and very different. If ever there was a coffee that should be called jammy, this is it (La Esperanza is the Colombian version of this…)! It presents massive body with a berry fruit-basket of flavors. If you have not tried it you should.

Ndiara is an eight acre farm in the Kirinyaga district on the southern slope of Mt. Kenya at 5,500 feet. It is named after a pre-historic site nearby. Mr. Daniel Waruri Muriuki started it in 1979 when he acquired the land and planted 6,000 Bourbon SL-28 and SL-34 coffee trees; he later added an additional 500 trees.

This is a must-try coffee for any Kenya coffee lover!

Please 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 on the date that the limited coffee is roasted to minimize your shipping cost, UNLESS you leave a message in the Notes Box indicating you want us to ship your regular coffee separately.

Kiamariga, Nyeri, Kenya

Roasting Monday February 22nd!

We have held back our most spectacular coffee from Kenya until now, kept in perfect condition with our special storage system. It is a small, vintage lot which we will roast from time to time. The cup is saturated with immaculately transparent perfectly ripe succulent blackberry subtly layered with traces of plum and dark red cherries. It is without trace of astringency, having great layered depth and a velvet-soft sweetly disappearing finish - a Kenya of unforced power, full body and great elegance.

The Kiamariga Cooperative mill is about 100 miles north of Nairobi in the great coffee-growing Nyeri district. It serves over one thousand small growers who live nearby at around five thousand feet in altitude on the edge of the Mt. Kenya forest. The average farm size is a half acre with an average of 250 trees each. I visited Solomon Dei, a member of Kiamariga, at his farm, seen on right. The Kiamariga mill is seen below, early in the morning. The green coffee, drying on racks, is still covered in yellow plastic to protect from morning dew and possible rainfall overnight. Fermentation tanks with roofs protecting from the sun are on the left, and curing of recently dried coffee is in the large structure to the right, open on the sides for proper ventilation. Full flavor roasted.

Region: Nyeri
Altitude: 5,000+ ft.
Rainfall: moderate
Soil: Volcanic loam
Arabica variety: Bourbon SL 28 and SL 34
Average size of farms: 0.5 acres

Please 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 on the date that the limited coffee is roasted to minimize your shipping cost, UNLESS you leave a message in the Notes Box indicating you want us to ship your regular coffee separately.