Buyer-side · Addis Ababa · United Kingdom
Every lot is read before it ships and again when it lands, so the cup you approve is the cup you get.
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Four of the seven lots we are covering this season, each with its cup score. Take the top card off to see the next one.
Gedeb, Gedeo · washed
Kochere, Gedeo · natural
Uraga, Guji · natural
Bensa, Sidama · washed
Four of the seven season lots shown · every lot has its own page and journey tracker · the full sheet
Every lot passes eight stages, and each one has its proof. Three of them, in short.
The record starts at the washing station or woreda: harvest window, altitude and variety.
A Q score with the scoresheet attached, plus moisture and water activity.
Read again when the container lands and compared with the approved sample.
Cup profile, process, volume and timing.
Lots that fit, from exporters we have vetted. If nothing fits, we say so.
Each lot’s record, with the Q score and its scoresheet attached.
Contracting, export documents and freight, with the paperwork travelling with the coffee.
Every lot is tracked from the tree to the bag, and read twice at an independent lab that does not belong to the seller: before the doors close in Addis Ababa, and again when the container lands. The figures on a lot card come from that record, not from a description of it.
Zone, altitude, process and cup for every region, with the disagreements between published figures printed rather than hidden.
How to choose a coffee origin: match origin to blend, single origin or private label, check grades, EUDR dates and costs, then ask for samples and documents.
ReadWorld coffee supply 2026/27: a record crop lifts stocks to only 14.6 percent of a year's use, against 23.1 percent in 2020/21. What it means and what to check.
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Send the brief and we come back with the lots that actually fit it, or with a route to your own brand. If we are not the right people for it, we will say so.
Or write to [email protected].
Lots shortlisted against your brief, with the documentation behind each one, through to shipment.
RoastedRoasted at origin, under your labelSourced, graded, cupped, then roasted in Ethiopia and packed under your own brand.
One email a week: Ethiopian coffee prices, grading, logistics and the rules that change what you can import. Plain, sourced, no spam.
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