ECWx | The Big Idea
Before joining the team at Intelligentsia in 2016, I spent 14 years working for an international development agency. A long-time collaborator in that work with […]
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ECWx in Pictures
Intelligentsia partnered with Root Capital last month to adapt our Extraordinary Coffee Workshop for a new context and format we call ECWx. We convened the first […]
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Three Cups of Excellence
The Cup of Excellence (CoE) is the world’s most rigorous and prestigious coffee quality competition. With events in 10 different coffee-growing countries and an internet […]
CoE 101
This week we begin our releases of not one, not two but three winners of recent Cup of Excellence competitions in Colombia and Peru. It […]
Karyenda: Music (and coffee) worthy of royalty
The karyenda is a traditional drum in Burundi, but it is not just any drum. It occupies the highest order of sacred drums in a […]
An architectural approach to agriculture
From our Vice President of Coffee and Colombia Buyer Geoff Watts: The Santuario Farm Project was created in 1999 by visionary farmer-in-training Camilo Merizalde. His […]
Tres Santos Colombia: Linares
From our Vice President of Coffee and Colombia Buyer Geoff Watts: . Nariño, Nariño! The mere sound of the name raises expectations. This little state […]
A symbol of coffee’s promise
I began working in coffee nearly 15 years ago. During that time I have been on more farms than I can remember and taken more […]
How do you spell flavor at Finca Takesi? G-E-M.
Today we begin taking pre-orders for three coffees that are extraordinary by design: our Finca Takesi Bolivia Geisha Special Selection, our Finca Takesi Bolivia Typica Special Selection, and our […]
Introducing Axioma
Our Direct Trade model has been more than 15 years in the making, and it continues to evolve. We love to tell the story of Intelligentsia […]
The changing of the seasons
The seasons are changing here at Intelligentsia. Yes, the cold has descended on our home city of Chicago and the winter solstice looms, but that […]
Credit where credit is due
I have been in coffee nearly 15 years. For most of that time, I lived at origin, where I worked extensively with and on behalf of […]
The Intelligentsia Extraordinary Coffee Competition: Best in Inventory
Last month, we gathered our entire supply chain in San Francisco for the annual Intelligentsia Extraordinary Coffee Workshop. The event itself is nothing new: this […]
ECW 2017: Technology Tuesday
Today our ECW agenda is devoted entirely to the topic of technological innovation, mostly, but not exclusively, in the coffee sector. Geoff Watts, our Vice […]