Buyer’s Notebook: La Tortuga Honduras
Our La Tortuga Honduras takes its name and inspiration from the moral of Aesop’s fable about the tortoise and the hare: slow and steady wins […]
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Buyer’s Notebook: La Tortuga Honduras
Our La Tortuga Honduras takes its name and inspiration from the moral of Aesop’s fable about the tortoise and the hare: slow and steady wins […]
Buyer’s Notebook: Flecha Roja Costa Rica
The Intelli Sourcing Sessions podcast is back, and just in time: last week marked the start of a month-long run of delicious releases from our […]
An Ethiopian Sensory Expedition
Last week, Gesha Village Coffee Estate in Ethiopia auctioned off 21 nanolots from its 2016/17 harvest. Average scores for the best-scoring lots topped 91 points and prices […]
What’s in a name?
Our single-origin coffees are the very best we have to offer — clearly articulated flavors that deliver on the promise of traditional cultivars, embody the terroir of […]
El Boliviazo
Bolivian coffee sits in the long shadows cast by its mighty neighbors. It is bordered to the east by Brazil, a coffee colossus on whose every […]
The WCR Chekhov Program
We are pleased to announce today that we have joined the World Coffee Research “Chekhov” program and will contribute a half-cent per pound on all our […]
#coffeeisanimmigrant
This weekend, Intelligentsia is proud to stand up for the principles of equality, fairness, freedom and human rights. We believe the ban on immigrants from […]
Extraction Theory, and You!
“Extraction is a measure of the solubles yield. It is also expressed as a percentage, comparing the amount of coffee flavoring material in the beverage […]
Simran Sethi’s love letter to coffee
Simran Sethi is a sustainability celebrity. She has appeared on Ellen, Martha Stewart and Oprah as a sustainability expert and lectured on environmental issues in classrooms and […]
Rwanda: Begin at the beginning
I sat down recently with my colleague Geoff Watts in our makeshift studio here in Chicago to record introductions of our two current Rwanda offerings: the […]
ECW: A ride on the magic bus
The Extraordinary Coffee Workshop is the annual gathering of our Direct Trade network. It has become the anchor of our sourcing program and the most […]
Why Intelligentsia
This was a big year for me. After nine years living and working overseas for a non-profit, I moved back to the United States to […]