The Coffee Atlas
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Every origin, varietal, and processing method, charted from cupping scores, altitude data, and published research. Every claim cited. Every page checked before you read it.
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Begin with the benchmarks.
Three entries every coffee conversation eventually reaches. New origins, varietals, and processes join the atlas every morning.
Philippines Benguet
Benguet, Philippines: Typica and Bourbon Arabica grown around 1,400-1,700 m in Atok, with a flavor profile averaged from three Coffee Review lots.
Burundi Ngozi
Ngozi in northern Burundi grows washed Red Bourbon with a plum, caramel and floral cup; three Coffee Review lots score 91 to 93.
Costa Rica Brunca
Costa Rica Brunca, the southern coffee zone of Coto Brus and Perez Zeledon, with two averaged Coffee Review lots, altitude data and cited sources.
Myanmar Shan State
Myanmar Shan State coffee, the Ywangan highland smallholder origin behind the country's first specialty exports, with a sourced cupping score and honest limits.
Peru San Martin
Peru San Martin: a high-jungle origin of chocolate, nut and caramel cups, with sourced altitude data and an honest caveat about its flavor scores.
Colombia Santander
Colombia Santander is a northeastern coffee department where Castillo and Caturra grow, and a sourced look at what three Coffee Review lots say about its cup.
Ethiopia Jimma
Ethiopia Jimma, the high-volume western origin and home of the JARC 74-series cultivars, with washed-lot cupping scores, altitude data and brewing notes.
Kenya Meru
Kenya Meru, the Mount Kenya and Nyambene Hills county behind lots like Kianjuri and Gichugene, with sourced altitude, harvest, and Coffee Review scores.
Tabi Coffee Variety
Tabi is Colombia's tall, rust-resistant Typica, Bourbon and Timor Hybrid cross, profiled here from three independently scored 100% Tabi cupping lots.
Costa Rica Central Valley
Costa Rica's Central Valley, the populous Valle Central around San Jose where the country's coffee industry began, with a sourced flavor profile and citations.
Infused Coffee Beans
Infused coffee beans pick up fruit or spice flavor from ingredients added during processing. What Coffee Review scored, and why the label is contested.
Peru Cusco
Peru Cusco, the Andean department around La Convencion that grows chocolatey, syrupy washed lots and fruitier naturals, with sourced reviews and altitude data.
Starmaya
Starmaya, the first F1 Arabica hybrid propagated by seed, pairs Marsellesa rust resistance with high yield and a bright, sweet cup, sourced and cited.
Taiwan Alishan
Taiwan's Alishan, the high-mountain Chiayi County coffee grown near 1,000-1,400 m, with averaged Coffee Review scores, real varieties, and honest citations.
Cascara (Coffee Cherry Tea)
Cascara is dried coffee cherry pulp steeped like tea: how it tastes, how the trade cups it, and the EU rule that sets its caffeine warning level.
Guatemala Atitlan
Guatemala Atitlan, washed coffee from the volcanic slopes around Lake Atitlan, with a sourced altitude band, a real Coffee Review score, and citations.
H1 Centroamericano
H1 Centroamericano crossed rust-resistant T5296 with Ethiopian Rume Sudan to pair high yields with cup quality, shown through real Coffee Review lot scores.
Honduras Santa Barbara
Honduras Santa Barbara, the western highland department behind many Pacas and Bourbon lots, with a cupping profile averaged from three Coffee Review scores.
Sudan Rume
Sudan Rume, the rare heirloom Arabica from South Sudan's Boma Plateau, with a sourced cupping profile, altitude data and real citations.
Brazil Paraiso Bourbon
Paraiso is a Yellow Bourbon farm at about 1,400 m in Conceicao das Pedras, Minas Gerais, with Cup of Excellence records and variety-level cupping scores.
Rwanda Rulindo
Rulindo is a high Bourbon district in Rwanda's Northern Province, home to the Tumba and Buliza washing stations, with sourced altitude, scores and citations.
Guatemala Fraijanes
Guatemala Fraijanes is a high plateau near Pacaya volcano: bright, structured washed coffee, with a sourced altitude range and real Coffee Review scores.
Nicaragua Madriz
Madriz is a small coffee department in northwest Nicaragua. Sourced altitude, Caturra notes and two Coffee Review lots scoring 90 and 93, from 2004 and 2010.
Peru Chanchamayo
Peru Chanchamayo, the Junin valley behind roughly 40% of Peru's coffee, a soft, nutty, chocolatey cup built from smallholder co-op lots, with sourced data.
Colombia Cundinamarca
Colombia Cundinamarca, the Andean department around Bogota, grows washed, peach-and-caramel coffee at roughly 1,200-2,000 m, with two sourced cupping reviews.
Kenya Murang'a
Kenya Murang'a is the Aberdare-foothill county south of Nyeri, a washed SL28 and SL34 origin at 1,340-1,950 m that Coffee Review scores 92 to 95.
Panama Chiriqui Highlands
Panama's Chiriqui Highlands, from Boquete to Volcan and Renacimiento, with a sourced altitude band, a Coffee Review washed lot score and citations.
Brazil Yellow Catuai
Yellow Catuai is a Brazilian dwarf cultivar bred from a 1949 Mundo Novo and Caturra cross, scored here from three real, dated Coffee Review lots.
El Salvador Pacamara, Chalatenango
Pacamara from Chalatenango, El Salvador's cool northern highlands at 1,500-1,700 m, with a flavor profile averaged from three Coffee Review lots.
Hawaii Maui Mokka
Maui Mokka is a tiny-beaned Arabica grown at Kaanapali, West Maui. Three Coffee Review lots scored 85 to 95, and this entry shows what they tasted like.
Mexico Sierra Mixteca
Sierra Mixteca is a Oaxaca highland, not Chiapas: smallholder Bourbon, Typica and Marsellesa lots at 900-1,800 m, with sourced cupping and harvest data.
Tanzania Ruvuma
Tanzania Ruvuma coffee from Mbinga in the far southwest: washed Bourbon-type Arabica at 1,200-1,800 m, with a sourced cupping profile and where to buy.
Barrel-Aged Coffee
Barrel-aged coffee rests green beans in used bourbon or whiskey barrels before roasting: how it works, what Coffee Review scored, and where it stays variable.
Costa Rica Honey Process
Costa Rica honey process coffee dries with sticky mucilage left on the bean, giving sweet, syrupy cups: a sourced look at the method and three scored lots.
Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Natural
Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Natural, the sun-dried take on a famously washed origin, with three averaged Coffee Review scores, altitude and harvest timing.
Kenya Thika
Kenya Thika, the Kiambu County district of washed SL28 and SL34 lots, with a sourced altitude band and averaged Coffee Review scores from three lots.
Kenya Kisii
Kenya Kisii (Gusii Highlands) is a western Kenyan origin, with sourced altitude, a single Coffee Review cupping, and honest limits on what is known.
El Salvador Santa Ana
El Salvador's Santa Ana highlands: volcano-slope farms above 1,400 m, Bourbon-led lots, and a flavor profile averaged from three Coffee Review scores.
Ethiopia Gedeo
Ethiopia Gedeo, the southern highland zone behind the Yirgacheffe name, where heirloom landraces are processed washed and natural, with sourced scores.
Honduras El Paraiso
Honduras El Paraiso, the small southern department on the Nicaraguan border known for Danli Parainema, with sourced altitude, harvest and cupping data.
Colombia Caldas
Colombia Caldas, the Coffee Axis department around Manizales: washed Caturra and Castillo lots with tangerine, rose and cocoa, main crop from September.
Colombia Risaralda
Colombia Risaralda sits at the heart of the Coffee Axis: washed Caturra and Castillo staples beside Sidra thermal-shock microlots that score 94.
Guatemala San Marcos
Guatemala San Marcos, the warmest and wettest of the country's coffee regions: floral, nut-toned and juicy, with sourced altitude and real cupping scores.
Nicaragua Nueva Segovia
Nueva Segovia is Nicaragua's northern border department. Sourced altitude, variety notes and three Coffee Review lots scoring 90 to 94, washed and natural.
Wine Yeast Coffee Processing
Wine yeast coffee processing adds a winemaking strain to the ferment. How producers use it, what a 2023 study found, and what two Coffee Review lots cupped.
Malawi Mzuzu
Malawi Mzuzu coffee: washed Catimor and Geisha from northern smallholder co-ops, with a sourced altitude band, harvest window and one cupping review.
Nicaragua Dipilto
Dipilto is a high Nueva Segovia growing zone in northern Nicaragua. Sourced altitude, variety notes and two Coffee Review lots scoring 93 and 94.
Tanzania Arusha
Tanzania Arusha coffee, grown on the slopes of Mount Meru, with a sourced altitude, harvest window, and flavor profile, plus real citations.
Zambia Northern Highlands
Zambia Northern Highlands coffee, a young specialty origin from Northern Province estates, with a sourced altitude, harvest window, and cupping profile.
Brazil Pulped Natural
Brazil pulped natural strips the cherry skin but dries the beans in their sticky mucilage: how the process works and what three Coffee Review lots scored.
Double Fermentation Coffee
Double fermentation splits a coffee's ferment into two stages, such as whole cherry then pulped bean. What the term covers and what three cupped lots show.
Ethiopian Heirloom Varieties
Ethiopian heirloom is a catch-all for landrace and JARC-selected Arabica, not one variety: what the label covers, how it cups, and why it is debated.
Kenya Double-Washed Process
Kenya's double-washed process ferments, rinses, then soaks coffee in clean water before drying: how it works and what two Coffee Review lots scored.
Yeast Fermentation in Coffee Processing
Yeast-inoculated coffee adds a chosen starter culture to cherries or mucilage to steer flavor. What peer-reviewed trials and two cupped lots actually show.
Brazil Espirito Santo
Brazil Espirito Santo offers bright mountain pulped-natural arabica, with a named lot's altitude, real Coffee Review scores, and cited sources throughout.
Colombia Tolima Planadas
Planadas, Tolima: smallholder lots grown at roughly 1,500-2,100 m that cup chocolaty, nutty and deeply sweet, with scores averaged from Coffee Review lots.
Ethiopia Sidamo Bensa
Washed Sidamo Bensa lots tied to the Daye Bensa group, scored 94-95 by Coffee Review: apricot, citrus and jasmine over a silky, cocoa-sweet body.
Kenya Kiambu
Kenya Kiambu, the washed SL28 coffee grown on Nairobi's doorstep, with sourced altitude and harvest data plus averaged Coffee Review cupping scores.
Panama Volcan
Panama Volcan, the western Chiriqui coffee district on the opposite flank of Volcan Baru from Boquete, with sourced altitude, cupping scores and citations.
Brazil Sao Paulo Alta Mogiana
Alta Mogiana, the northern Sao Paulo coffee zone with a 2013 geographical indication, known for sweet, chocolate-led natural lots, with sourced cupping scores.
Colombia Sierra Nevada
Colombia Sierra Nevada coffee: Fairtrade and organic washed lots from smallholder and indigenous co-ops on a Caribbean coastal massif, with sourced data.
Ethiopia Bensa
Ethiopia Bensa, the high-altitude Sidama district behind both washed and natural lots, with a flavor profile averaged from three Coffee Review scores.
Kenya Ruiru 11
Kenya's Ruiru 11 trees grow beside SL28 and SL34 across the central highlands, and two 96 and 97 point washed Nyeri lots reviewed by Coffee Review name them.
Tanzania Mbeya
Tanzania Mbeya coffee from the Southern Highlands: washed Bourbon-type Arabica with sourced altitude band, harvest window, and cupping profile, and sources.
Gesha Village (Ethiopia)
Gesha Village, the Bench Maji estate growing Gesha in the Ethiopian forest region it is named for, profiled from three dated Coffee Review lot scores.
SL28 Coffee Variety
SL28 is Kenya's 1935 Scott Labs selection: tall, low-yielding, disease-prone, and still the benchmark for high-altitude cup quality. Three lots, scored.
Thermal Shock Coffee Processing
Thermal shock coffee processing rinses fermented beans in hot, then cold water to halt fermentation. Where it began and what two Coffee Review lots show.
Wush Wush Coffee
Wush Wush is an Ethiopian-derived Arabica now grown in Colombia. Three Coffee Review lots scored 94 to 95 with floral, citrus and stone-fruit cups.
Bali Kintamani
Bali Kintamani, Indonesia's first geographical-indication coffee, grown by subak abian farmers in volcanic highlands, with sourced cupping scores and citations.
Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Kochere
Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Kochere, a washed Gedeo Zone coffee from the woreda south of Yirgacheffe town, with sourced cupping scores and altitude.
Kenya Embu
Kenya Embu coffee grows on Mount Kenya's southeastern slopes; washed SL28 and Batian lots cup sweet-savory, with ripe tomato and red currant.
Sidra Coffee
Sidra is an Ecuadorian Bourbon and Typica hybrid of disputed origin. Three Coffee Review lots scored 93 to 95 with floral, tropical-fruit cups.
Sumatra Lintong
Sumatra Lintong, the wet-hulled Lake Toba coffee known for cedar, tobacco and grapefruit, with sourced altitude, real cupping scores and citations.
India Wayanad
Wayanad, Kerala's Robusta heartland, holds a GI tag for a full-bodied, low-acid, chocolatey coffee: sourced altitude, harvest, and honest cupping caveats.
Ethiopia Nekemte
Ethiopia Nekemte (Lekempti), the high-altitude western Oromia coffee from the Wollega Zone, with a sourced flavor profile and real citations.
Pacas Coffee
Pacas is a compact Bourbon mutation found in El Salvador in 1949: a high-yield dwarf tree, parent of Pacamara, and a quiet 93-point performer in the cup.
Peru Amazonas
Amazonas, northern Peru, grows coffee on the Andes-meets-Amazon slope; two Coffee Review lots, one washed and one natural, score 93 and 90 here.
Brazil Bahia
Brazil Bahia splits into flat irrigated lowlands and the 800-1,300 m Planalto da Bahia and Chapada Diamantina, with sourced cupping scores and real citations.
Colombia Valle del Cauca
Colombia's Valle del Cauca exports ordinary washed Caturra and Castillo, but one farm's Geisha microlot has scored 96 on Coffee Review twice, sourced and cited.
Parainema Coffee
Parainema is Honduras's 2004 Sarchimor hybrid bred for coffee leaf rust resistance, with real Coffee Review scores and sourced Cup of Excellence data.
Icatu Coffee
Icatu crossed Robusta into Bourbon to fight leaf rust in Brazil, and a real Coffee Review score shows the sweet, low-acid cup a careful lot can reach.
Marsellesa Coffee
Marsellesa is CIRAD-ECOM's 2009 rust-resistant Sarchimor hybrid and parent of Starmaya, with real cupping data behind its quality ceiling and its baseline.
Obata Coffee Variety
Obata is Brazil's IAC-bred Timor Hybrid x Villa Sarchi cross, rust-resistant and high-yield, now grown from Sul de Minas to Costa Rica and Honduras.
Ethiopia Kaffa
Ethiopia's Kaffa Zone, the forest where wild Arabica coffee originated, with real altitude, harvest, and cupping data behind the birthplace story.
Swiss Water Process Decaf
The Swiss Water Process removes caffeine with only water and time, no solvents: the real osmosis mechanism, taste trade-offs, and sourced cupping scores.
Colombia Quindio
Colombia's Quindio ships dark-roast bulk blends under its own name, yet small farms there now produce competition-grade Pink Bourbon and Wush Wush microlots.
Eugenioides Coffee
Eugenioides is Arabica's own wild parent species, grown as a genuine rarity in Colombia and Ecuador, with a sourced flavor profile and real citations.
Indonesia Flores
Indonesia Flores coffee from the Bajawa highlands, split between wet-hulled and washed lots, with sourced altitude, real cupping scores, and verified citations.
Batian Coffee
Batian is Kenya's 2010 disease-resistant hybrid bred to close the cup-quality gap with SL28 and SL34, and it is still almost always sold blended, not alone.
Laurina (Bourbon Pointu) Coffee
Laurina, also called Bourbon Pointu, is a real genetic rarity: a single recessive Bourbon mutation that cuts caffeine roughly in half, with sourced numbers.
Galapagos Islands Coffee
Galapagos coffee grows at 130 to 350 meters, the lowest elevation in specialty arabica, with the cold Humboldt Current standing in for altitude.
Hawaii Ka'u Coffee
Ka'u coffee grows beside Kona on Mauna Loa's slopes and already out-scores it on Coffee Review: real cupping data, sourced altitude, and where to buy it.
Ruiru 11 Coffee
Ruiru 11, Kenya's 1985 disease-resistant hybrid bred against coffee berry disease and leaf rust, has a real cup-quality record that still divides growers.
Sarchimor Coffee
Sarchimor crossed Villa Sarchi with a rust-resistant Timor hybrid to save farms at lower altitude, and real competition scores beat its workhorse reputation.
India Chikmagalur
Chikmagalur, Karnataka: India's largest Arabica-growing district and coffee's entry point into India, with sourced altitude, flavor, and buying data.
Rwanda Nyamasheke
Rwanda's Nyamasheke district on Lake Kivu grows Bourbon coffee, from a 2013 Coffee Review Top 30 lot to a modern anaerobic natural, with real cupping data.
Aceh Gayo
Aceh Gayo coffee, a wet-hulled Sumatran origin with brighter acidity than Mandheling, grown at 1,200-1,700 m, with sourced cupping scores and citations.
Colombia Antioquia
Colombia's historic coffee heartland, Antioquia is the country's second-largest producing department, with washed lots scoring 91-94 in real cupping data.
Guatemala Coban
Guatemala Coban grows in a rain soaked, cloud covered highland far from the country's volcanoes, with a sourced flavor profile and real citations.
Mexico Veracruz
Veracruz holds one of Mexico's two coffee denominations of origin, grown lower and gentler than Chiapas, with sourced altitude, harvest, and cupping data.
Tanzania Kilimanjaro
Tanzania Kilimanjaro coffee, grown on Mount Kilimanjaro's volcanic slopes, with a sourced altitude, harvest window, and flavor profile, plus real citations.
Brazil Matas de Minas
Brazil Matas de Minas, the country's second-largest coffee region and a rising specialty name, with sourced altitude, flavor, and cupping data.
Costa Rica Turrialba
Costa Rica Turrialba, home to CATIE's coffee gene bank, where honey-processed microlots now outscore this low-altitude region's old, mild, everyday reputation.
Ethiopia Limu
Ethiopia Limu, the balanced, washed origin overshadowed by Yirgacheffe and Sidamo despite a comparable cup, with a sourced flavor profile and real citations.
Java Coffee Variety
Java is an Ethiopian landrace variety refined in Cameroon for disease tolerance, now scoring in the mid 90s from Colombia's best farms.
Rwanda Huye
Huye District is where Rwanda's specialty coffee industry began: Maraba's post-genocide cooperative and the Huye Mountain washing station, both sourced here.
Colombia Tolima
Colombia Tolima, a post-conflict origin whose smallholder farms at 1,400-2,100 m grow a citrus-bright, chocolate-toned washed cup, with sourced cupping scores.
Dominican Republic Coffee
Dominican Republic coffee, the Caribbean origin overshadowed by Jamaica's hype, with real Jarabacoa cupping scores, altitude, and sourced regional flavor data.
Honduras Copan
Honduras Copan, the Mayan-ruins region where washed COCAFCAL and CAFESCOR co-op lots run chocolate-forward, with a sourced flavor profile and citations.
India Coorg
Coorg, Karnataka's largest coffee district, grows Arabica and Robusta under a 2019 GI tag: real altitude, variety, and cupping data behind the coffee.
Mexico Oaxaca
Oaxaca's Pluma Hidalgo coffee carries Mexico's federally protected cafe pluma denomination of origin, with sourced altitude, harvest, and cupping data.
India Baba Budan Hills
The Karnataka hills where coffee entered India in the 1650s: real altitude, harvest, and cupping data behind the Baba Budan legend, not just the story.
Laos Bolaven Plateau
Laos's Bolaven Plateau grows washed specialty Arabica beside unusually high-altitude Robusta on volcanic soil, with a sourced flavor profile and real citations.
Mundo Novo Coffee
Mundo Novo is the accidental Typica-Bourbon cross behind modern Brazilian coffee: parent to Catuai, a workhorse variety with real sourced cupping data.
Costa Rica Tres Rios
Costa Rica Tres Rios, the small volcanic-soil district near San Jose known as the Bordeaux of Costa Rica, with a sourced flavor profile and real citations.
Guatemala Acatenango
Guatemala Acatenango grows on the volcano next to Antigua, where a 395-producer cooperative's everyday crop and prized microlots cup ten points apart.
Nicaragua Matagalpa
Matagalpa is Nicaragua's historic coffee heartland, German-settled in the 1880s, with real altitude data and sourced Coffee Review cupping scores.
Ethiopia Sidamo
Ethiopia Sidamo, the broad origin Yirgacheffe and Guji were carved out of, still one of the ECX's most diverse cups, with a sourced flavor profile.
Maracaturra Coffee
Maracaturra crosses Maragogype giant bean with Caturra high yield: a Nicaragua bred hybrid with real Coffee Review scores and honest historical sourcing.
Brazil Mogiana
Brazil Mogiana, one of the country's oldest coffee valleys, prized for low-acid, chocolate-and-nut natural lots, with sourced cupping scores and citations.
Colombia Santa Marta
Colombia Santa Marta grows on the world's highest coastal range, farmed by indigenous growers under a 2017 Denomination of Origin, with sourced data.
Puerto Rico Yauco Selecto
Puerto Rico Yauco Selecto, the island's historic AA grade coffee brand rebuilding after Hurricane Maria, with a sourced flavor profile and real citations.
Villa Sarchi Coffee
Villa Sarchi, the compact Bourbon mutation from Costa Rica's West Valley that became the rust-resistant Sarchimor line's parent, with sourced cupping scores.
Castillo Coffee Variety
Castillo is Cenicafe's 2005 rust-resistant Caturra x Timor Hybrid release covering most of Colombia: the breeding story and the real Caturra quality debate.
Guatemala Huehuetenango
Guatemala Huehuetenango, the country's highest non-volcanic origin: brighter, fruit-forward, with a sourced altitude range and real cupping citations.
Cuba Sierra Maestra
Cuba Sierra Maestra coffee grows behind a UNESCO-listed plantation ruin and a six-decade US embargo, with a sourced flavor profile and real citations.
Costa Rica West Valley
Costa Rica's West Valley, the volcanic-soil coop belt that produced the Villa Sarchi variety, with a sourced flavor profile, altitude data, and citations.
Brazil Sul de Minas
Sul de Minas grows roughly 30% of Brazil's coffee across a 750-1,350 m altitude band, with sourced cupping scores, altitude data, and citations.
Colombia Cauca
Colombia Cauca pairs a 2011 Denomination of Origin washed baseline with the experimental fermentation lots reshaping specialty coffee, sourced and cited.
Kenya Kirinyaga
Kenya Kirinyaga sits beside Nyeri on Mount Kenya's slopes, but 14 cooperatives and 74 wet mills mean the name covers far more than one flavor.
Ethiopia Harrar
Ethiopia Harrar, the ancient dry-processed origin behind coffee's wine and blueberry flavor, with a sourced flavor profile and real citations.
Kenya Nyeri
Kenya Nyeri is the actual county behind many top Kenya AA lots: real altitude, soil, and variety data, not just the size grade printed on the bag.
Wet Hulling (Giling Basah)
Wet hulling, giling basah, strips parchment early, giving Sumatra and Toraja coffee heavy body, low acidity, an earthy cup, with a sourced profile.
Catimor Coffee
Catimor crossed a rust-resistant Timor hybrid with Caturra to fight a 1970s leaf-rust epidemic, and inherited a flat-cup reputation the real scores complicate.
Indonesia Java
Indonesia Java is not one coffee: a small washed-Arabica estate tradition on the Ijen Plateau against the Robusta bulk that makes up most of the island's crop.
Yellow Bourbon Coffee
Yellow Bourbon is a 1930s Brazilian mutation of Red Bourbon, a rare, low-yield variety scored here from three real, dated Coffee Review lots.
Kopi Luwak
Kopi luwak is coffee digested by the Asian palm civet: the real fermentation mechanism, the caged-civet fraud problem, and sourced cupping scores.
Arabica vs Robusta Coffee
Arabica and Robusta are different coffee species, not roast styles: the real genetics, caffeine, and cupping-score gap, sourced and compared side by side.
Colombia Narino
Colombia Narino is the country's highest-grown coffee department and its first protected Denomination of Origin, with a sourced flavor profile and citations.
Ethiopia Guji
Ethiopia Guji, the high-altitude Oromia zone once folded into generic Sidamo exports, now scored on its own real washed and natural cupping data.
Sulawesi Toraja
Sulawesi Toraja is Indonesia's wet-hulled highland arabica: heavy body, low acidity, earthy-spice cup, with a sourced flavor profile and real citations.
Caturra vs Catuai Coffee
Caturra and Catuai are the dwarf varieties that remade Latin American coffee farming: real genetics, agronomic tradeoffs, and a sourced flavor comparison.
Liberica and Excelsa Coffee
Liberica and excelsa: the coffee species outside the arabica-robusta duopoly, a 2025 genomic species split, real cupping scores, and where each actually grows.
Thailand Doi Chang
Thailand's Doi Chang, the Akha-grown Chiang Rai coffee that replaced opium poppies, with a sourced flavor profile, real cupping scores, and honest citations.
Bolivia Caranavi
Bolivia Caranavi coffee: a high-altitude Yungas origin with a sourced flavor profile and real altitude data, not just organic-and-Fairtrade adjectives.
Congo Kivu
Congo Kivu coffee rebuilds a war-scarred industry around Lake Kivu's Bourbon lots and cooperative washing stations, with a sourced flavor profile.
Pink Bourbon Coffee
Pink Bourbon looks and is named like a Bourbon mutation, but 2023 DNA testing traced this record-scoring Colombian varietal to an Ethiopian landrace instead.
Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste coffee, home to the rust-resistant Hibrido de Timor hybrid and organic smallholder farming, with a sourced flavor profile and real citations.
China Yunnan
China's Yunnan Province, now the source of nearly all Chinese coffee: Catimor variety, a Nestle-era origin story, and a sourced flavor profile.
El Salvador Apaneca-Ilamatepec
El Salvador's Apaneca-Ilamatepec highlands: the country's original coffee zone, volcanic soil, Bourbon lots, and a sourced flavor profile.
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea's washed highland Arabica, seeded by a 1930s Blue Mountain planting, with sourced cupping scores, altitude data, and real citations.
Uganda Mount Elgon
Uganda's Mount Elgon Bugisu coffee, the washed East African origin known for chocolate sweetness and citrus brightness, with sourced cupping data and citations.
Carbonic Maceration Coffee Processing
Carbonic maceration seals whole coffee cherries in CO2 to ferment inside out, the wine-borrowed technique that won the 2015 World Barista Championship.
How Decaf Coffee Is Made
How decaf coffee is made: Swiss Water, sugarcane EA, and CO2 explained, with real caffeine-removal percentages and the taste trade-offs of each method.
Ecuador Loja
Ecuador's Loja province produced 2021's record-price Cup of Excellence lot from tiny smallholder farms, with sourced altitude, harvest, and cupping data.
Maragogype Coffee
Maragogype is coffee's biggest bean, an 1870 Typica mutation. Real Coffee Review data tests whether its size actually predicts cup quality.
Nicaragua Jinotega
Jinotega grows most of Nicaragua's coffee, but generic labeling hides it. Real altitude, harvest windows, and sourced cupping scores, no invented data.
Honduras Marcala
Honduras Marcala, Central America's first coffee Denomination of Origin: what the legal designation requires, and how the cup scores against real reviews.
Pacamara Coffee
Pacamara is El Salvador's 30-year Pacas by Maragogipe cross: huge beans, real Cup of Excellence wins, and an honest look at how often the hype holds up.
SL28 and SL34 Coffee Varieties
SL28 and SL34 are Kenya's 1935-39 Scott Labs selections: the real history, the genetics, and drought-tolerance evidence weighed against the lore.
Tanzania Peaberry
Tanzania Peaberry is a shape grade, not a quality grade: real grading rules, sorting economics, and two averaged Coffee Review scores behind its cup.
Vietnam Robusta
Vietnam supplies nearly 40% of the world's robusta exports. A sourced look at Coffea canephora's chemistry, Fine Robusta scoring, and real cupping data.
Burundi Kayanza
Burundi's Kayanza province grows Bourbon coffee that scores alongside Rwanda's best lots, with Cup of Excellence and Coffee Review data behind it.
Monsooned Malabar Coffee
Monsooned Malabar trades acidity for body: raw beans absorb monsoon humidity on India's Malabar Coast for 12-16 weeks, with the real mechanism and cupping data.
Mexico Chiapas
Chiapas grows coffee on the same Sierra Madre slopes as Guatemala's coffee zone, yet sells for less: altitude bands, cupping scores, and the reasons why.
Peru Cajamarca
Peru's Cajamarca growers ship some of the world's most organic coffee, and this entry weighs the real certification cost against the real cooperative premium.
Rwanda Bourbon
Rwanda rebuilt its coffee industry on Red Bourbon and post-2000 washing stations, and honestly explains the real defect risk in that same terroir: potato taste.
Costa Rica Tarrazu
Costa Rica Tarrazu, the sedimentary-soil highland region whose micromill economics changed who profits from the cup, with sourced flavor data and citations.
Yemen Mocha
Yemen Mocha, where coffee cultivation and the global coffee trade began: named heirloom varieties, natural rooftop drying, and a sourced flavor profile.
Anaerobic Coffee Processing
Anaerobic coffee processing seals cherries in oxygen-free tanks to build fruit-forward cups: the real fermentation mechanism and its competition-circuit rise.
Bourbon vs Typica Coffee
Bourbon and Typica are the two varieties most modern Arabica cultivars trace to: real genetic lineage, a sourced flavor comparison, and the family tree.
Brazil Cerrado
Brazil Cerrado is the low-altitude workhorse behind the world's largest coffee crop, with a sourced altitude range, real cupping scores, and citations.
Guatemala Antigua
Guatemala Antigua is the volcanic-soil classic behind Central America's coffee reputation, with a sourced altitude range, real cupping scores, and citations.
Panama Boquete Geisha
Panama's Boquete highlands on Volcan Baru grow the Geisha coffee behind record auctions, with sourced cupping scores, altitude data, and real citations.
Colombia Huila
Colombia Huila is the country's biggest coffee-growing department, a traceable micro-region behind the generic Colombian coffee label, with sourced data.
Hawaii Kona Coffee
Kona grows on a narrow volcanic belt at 244 to 762 meters. Real Coffee Review scores, the 2025 fraud case, and the 10 percent blend law explain the name.
Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee
Jamaica Blue Mountain costs $50 to $120 a bag, driven by scarcity and Japanese demand. Real Coffee Review scores test whether the cup backs up the hype.
Kenya AA
Kenya AA is a bean-size grade, not a quality score: the real grading table, the separate Class rating system, and a sourced flavor profile from two top lots.
Sumatra Mandheling
Sumatra Mandheling coffee explained through its defining process, wet-hulling, with sourced altitude, real cupping scores, and a citation for every claim.
Ethiopia Yirgacheffe
Ethiopia Yirgacheffe, the washed origin that teaches drinkers what clean, floral coffee tastes like, with a sourced flavor profile and real citations.
Gesha (Geisha) Coffee
Gesha, the rare Ethiopian varietal that turned Panama's Boquete highlands into the auction world's most expensive coffee, from $21 to $13,705 a pound.
Washed vs Natural vs Honey Coffee Processing
Washed, natural, and honey coffee processing shape acidity, body, and sweetness in different directions: a sourced comparison of all three methods.
Three ways in
Browse the way you think about coffee.
Origins
Where a coffee grows: the altitude, climate, and terroir that set its character before anyone touches it.
Varietals
The plant itself: the cultivars and landraces that decide what flavors are even possible in the cherry.
Processing
What happens after picking: washed, natural, honey, and anaerobic, and how each rewrites the cup.
The standard
Nothing invented. Everything cited.
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