The Features.
A map that isn't. Seven places, seven mornings, seven cups — each reported in full, each written at the length it required to make sense.
By the numbers
07
origins reported
Total
79min
of reading
On the ground
41days
of reporting
The quiet authority of Yirgacheffe
In the forested highlands south of Addis Ababa, smallholders stubbornly practice a craft that the rest of the world is still trying to imitate.
ETThe cartographers of Huila
A generation of young Colombian farmers is learning to think of altitude the way winemakers think of terroir — and rewriting the map, one microlot at a time.
COAgainst the wind, in Haraz
In the terraced highlands west of Sana'a, coffee is being grown the way it has been grown for five hundred years — and, for the first time in a generation, sold the way it deserves to be.
YEThe women of Nyamasheke
On the western shore of Lake Kivu, a cooperative founded by war widows has quietly become one of Africa's most exacting producers of washed Bourbon.
RWThe wet ground of Sumatra
Giling basah — the wet-hulling process unique to Indonesia — produces a coffee that the rest of the world is not sure how to classify, and that Sumatran farmers have no interest in changing.
IDA cloud forest and its price
In the Chiriquí highlands, a single varietal rescued from near-extinction has redrawn the economics of specialty coffee — and raised questions the industry has not yet answered.
PAThe scale of Mogiana
Brazilian coffee is often spoken of dismissively, in the language of commodity. Spend three days on a family farm in São Paulo's Mogiana region and the language starts, quietly, to break down.
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