Latin America

 Coffee has become an integral part of Colombia’s national identity. Colombia holds a bounty of microclimates that give each coffee a wide range of unique flavor profiles. With a great deal of variety in flavor across regions in this country, it's hard to list one profile of notes for this country. Colombian coffees have been known to be very smooth with a chocolate finish to more bright and fruity. Close to the equator, Colombia experiences two coffee harvesting seasons, making it one of the primary producers of coffee in the world. Colombia has a reputation of producing producing high quality, mild, and well-balanced coffee beans. 

 In Costa Rica, coffee is more than just a drink, it’s a way of life. Costa Rica has been producing coffee for more than 200 years, and the coffee trade truly made the country what it is today. High quality coffee has been and continues to be both serious business and a point of pride for Costa Ricans. Costa Rican coffee standards are so high, in fact, that it is actually illegal to grow anything other than Arabica beans in the country. Costa Rica has eight coffee growing regions, each with its own qualities and flavor profiles. Costa Rican coffee beans are considered among the best in the world.

 Brazil is known for being the world’s largest producer of coffee for the last 150 years. Generally, the flavor profile of Brazilian coffee is very chocolaty, nutty, and rich with light acidity, which makes it a popular choice around the world. However, Brazil is a huge country with abundant diversity in may areas and it's also characterized by a great diversity in its coffee as well. While Brazil has traditionally been seen as the place that produces great volumes of commodity beans to cater to the world’s basic needs, it's also a country that produces very high quality specialty arabica coffees that can compete with the best. 

 With the Caribbean Sea to its north and Pacific Ocean at the southern tip, most of the coffee growing regions in Honduras are closer to the center of the country within its mountain ranges.  Honduran coffees run the range of soft and nutty to bright and vibrant, making them difficult to identify in blends. The best Honduran coffee is Strictly High Grown (SHG) grade. These altitudes allow the coffee to grow slower, increasing the mineral and nutrient uptakes and developing a fuller, more robust flavor of coffee. 

 Most of Peru's coffees are grown in the high altitudes of the Andes Mountains surrounding Cusco and Machu Picchu. This exceptional altitude creates a coffee with a bright effervescence, gentle sweetness, and a nice medium body. There are also coffee farms that span across the nation’s coastal plain and even a few in Peru’s jungle region of the Lower Amazon Basin that produce coffee with bright acidity, vibrant floral aromas, and a rich sweetness. 

 Guatemalan coffees are some of the most amazing fragrant and aromatic coffees in the world. The natural shade and jungle of the Guatemalan highlands are the perfect environment for the botanical varieties of Arabica, which lends itself to a very nice and very natural cup of one of the finest and most distinct quality coffees in the world.