Finca Los Planes is a distinguished, innovating El Salvador farm, one of whose coffees placed in this year's El Salvador Cup of Excellence competition. Produced from trees of the Bourbon variety at an elevation of approximately 5,300 feet by farmer Sergio Edmundo Ticas Reyes. This selection consists entirely of peaberries, a kind of bean that results when the coffee fruit develops only a single,
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Kenya Ndaro-Ini Top Auction Lot
Despite stresses brought on by social unrest, charges of corruption and a confused transition toward an open market, the famed Kenya coffee auction system and its participating cooperatives continue to produce some of the world's most elegant and distinctive coffees. PT's is a quality-oriented wholesale/retail specialty roaster with a wide and refined selection of coffee blends and origins. The
Finca Lerida Honeyed Panama
"Honeyed" refers to a processing and drying method usually called pulped natural, in which the skins are removed from the coffee but the sweet, sticky fruit flesh, or "honey" is left on the coffee as it is dried. Finca Lerida is among the most celebrated of the many fine Panama farms in the Boquete region. Tactfully roasted at PT's Coffee, where the motto is "without the love, it's just coffee."
Kenya AA Thunguri Microlot
Despite national coffee leadership marked by confusion and recent social disorder, Kenya cooperatives continue to produce some of the world's most elegant and distinctive coffees. AA is the highest grade of Kenya coffee based on bean size. PT's is a quality-oriented wholesale/retail specialty roaster with a wide and refined selection of coffee blends and origins. The PT's motto is "without the
El Salvador Finca Los Planes Reserva Del Mandador Pacamara Peaberry
Finca Los Planes is a distinguished, innovating El Salvador farm, one of whose coffees placed second in the 2006 El Salvador Cup of Excellence competition. Produced from trees of the Pacamara variety at an elevation of approximately 5,300 feet by farmer Sergio Edmundo Ticas Reyes on the Los Planes farm. The Pacamara variety, a cross between the giant-beaned Maragogipe variety and Pacas, a
Ethiopia Sidamo Special Prep
Special Prep, in this case, indicates that this is a dry-processed or "natural" coffee, meaning the beans were dried inside the fruit rather than after the fruit is removed, as is the case with wet-processed or "washed" coffees. Certified organically grown. PT's is a quality-oriented wholesale/retail specialty roaster with a wide and refined selection of coffee blends and origins. The PT's motto
El Salvador Finca Los Lainez COE #6
The fields of Finca Las Lainez are planted entirely in the heirloom Bourbon variety of Arabica. A prize winner in the 2008 El Salvador Cup of Excellence (www.cupofexcellence.org) competition, where as a green (unroasted) coffee this lot attracted a score of 89.31 from an international jury. PT's is a quality-oriented wholesale/retail specialty roaster with a wide and refined selection of coffee
Unassuming Beauty: Coffees of El Salvador and Honduras
Leaders of El Salvador's growing specialty coffee sector are quick to point out what they feel are the particular strengths of their origin. First, large plantings of coffee varieties particularly respected for their flavor and character, and second, generally impeccable preparation of those varieties. This month's cupping of nearly thirty El Salvador coffees from twenty-two American specialty
El Salvador Finca Kilimanjaro
Named after East Africa's highest peak by Aida Batlle, one of El Salvador's (and Central America's) finest and most innovative coffee producers, Finca Kilimanjaro is planted with the famous SL28 variety of Arabica responsible for the finest coffees of Kenya. PT's is a quality-oriented wholesale/retail specialty roaster with a wide and refined selection of coffee blends and origins. The PT's motto
Rwanda Bufcafe
Available in a one-pound valve bag for $10.99. The coffee cooperatives of Rwanda, benefiting from superb growing conditions, traditional varieties of Arabica and support from aid agencies and coffee idealists, are beginning to produce coffees that rank among the world's finest and most distinctive. PT's is a quality-oriented wholesale/retail specialty roaster with a wide and refined selection of
The Budget Aficionado: Top Value Single-Origin Coffees
When we made a decision last year to do an article aimed at finding great coffees at rock-bottom prices, we had no idea that the publication of this article would coincide with one of the most dismal times in recent American economic history. Our intention then was simply to find some bargain coffees to balance the more expensive selections that were beginning to dominate ratings at Coffee Review.
Panama Esmeralda Especial
Coffee from trees of the botanical variety "Gesha" or "Geisha" grown on farmer Price Peterson's Hacienda La Esmeralda in Panama has for the last several years consistently broken records paid for a green coffee. With its bold, boat-shaped beans and distinctive floral and chocolate cup, the Esmeralda Panama Gesha continues one of the world's most unique coffees. Tactfully roasted at PT's Coffee,
Santa Isabel Guatemala
This coffee is Rainforest Alliance certified, meaning it was produced following sustainable ecological and socio-economic criteria developed by the Sustainable Agricultural Network, a coalition of independent, environment-focused non-governmental organizations. A specially prepared, all-sun-dried lot from Finca Santa Isabel. Tactfully roasted at PT's Coffee, where the motto is "without the love,
The Rainforest Alternative: Twelve plus One Rainforest-Certified Coffees
It has been well over ten years since the Sustainable Agriculture Network launched the Rainforest Alliance Certified program for coffee. Unlike the more widely publicized Fair-Trade certification, which is principally a socio-economically focused certification aimed mainly at helping democratically-run cooperatives of small-holding, peasant growers achieve better prices for their coffees,
Limu Gomma Ethiopia
Certified organically grown. PT's Coffee is a passionately quality oriented small-batch roasting company operating under the motto is "without the love, it's just coffee." Visit www.ptscoffee.com or call 888-678-5282 for more information.
El Salvador Finca Los Planes Reserva del Madador Peaberry
Finca Los Planes is a distinguished, innovating El Salvador farm, one of whose coffees placed second in the 2006 El Salvador Cup of Excellence competition. This selection consists entirely of peaberries, a kind of bean that results when the coffee fruit develops only a single, oval bean rather than the usual pair of flat-sided beans. Peaberries produce a somewhat different (often better) cup than
Tanzania Gombe
From the Kanyovu cooperative of small-holding farmers. Owing in part to the support of several American specialty roasting companies, including PT's, the Kanyovu farmers have emerged over the past two years as a source of a refined and distinctive new Africa coffee. PT's Coffee is a passionately quality oriented small-batch roasting company operating under the motto is "without the love, it's just
Australia XF 2007 Bundja Single-Origin Espresso
Bundja is an unusually prepared Australian coffee. Mountain Top Coffee processes coffee from several small Australian farms as a special espresso type. Using what the mill calls a "double pass" preparation, "raisin" (coffee fruit dried on the tree) and sweet, purple, past-ripe fruit is rewetted and the fruit residue scrubbed off the beans by machine. The resulting coffee is quite sweet and low in
Single-Origin Espressos 2008
Those new to espresso connoisseurship may be surprised to learn that producing this dense, aromatic beverage from coffee of a single origin rather than from a blend of coffees from different origins is a mildly controversial practice. Traditionalists argue that the espresso system extracts flavor-bearing components from coffee so efficiently that a single coffee from a single origin is not
Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Aricha Selection #7
A dry-processed or "natural" coffee, meaning the beans are dried inside the fruit rather than after the fruit is removed, as is the case with wet-processed or "washed" coffees. Aricha Selection Seven is a specially prepared and selected lot of dry-processed coffee from the Yirgacheffe region exported by S.A. Bagersh. This is 2007 crop but appears to have held up remarkably well. PT's is a