Atlas
Every origin we cover on one map you can zoom into: growing regions, harvest seasons, altitudes, and every page this site has written about each country.
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CRMexico & Central America
The country that invented the micromill revolution and made honey processing mainstream.
SVMexico & Central America
Old Bourbon and Pacamara trees on volcanic slopes, and a coffee industry rebuilt after losing everything.
GTMexico & Central America
Eight distinct growing regions on one small country's volcanic spine, and a cup that changes with each.
HNMexico & Central America
Central America's largest producer, six distinct growing regions, and lots that range from flat commodity to some of the sweetest coffee in the isthmus.
MXMexico & Central America
Shade-grown smallholder coffee from Chiapas and Veracruz, and the home of certified organic at scale.
NIMexico & Central America
Shade-grown coffee in the northern highlands, Jinotega and Matagalpa for volume, Nueva Segovia for the lots that win. A sweet, easy cup that suits espresso.
PAMexico & Central America
A small producer that changed the price of coffee worldwide by planting one unfashionable variety.
BRSouth America
A third of the world's coffee, and the origin that makes espresso blends work.
COSouth America
Two harvests a year, wildly varied microclimates, and the most reliable washed coffee in the Americas.
PESouth America
High altitude, mostly organic, and the best value in specialty coffee: gentle acidity, real sweetness and a price that has not caught up yet.
BIAfrica & Arabia
Hillside smallholdings, cooperative washing stations, and some of the cleanest coffee in East Africa.
ETAfrica & Arabia
The genetic home of arabica, and the origin whose washed lots defined what floral coffee tastes like.
KEAfrica & Arabia
Double-washed processing, SL varieties, and the blackcurrant acidity nothing else reproduces.
RWAfrica & Arabia
Bourbon grown on a thousand hills, washed at cooperative stations, and a floral, tea-like cup that rewards a gentle filter recipe.
TZAfrica & Arabia
Kilimanjaro and Mbeya, peaberry lots sold as their own grade, and a cup that sits between Kenyan intensity and Rwandan delicacy.
UGAfrica & Arabia
Africa's largest coffee exporter, native robusta forests, and washed arabica off two mountain ranges.
YEAfrica & Arabia
Terraced mountain plots, sun-dried cherry and the oldest coffee trade on earth, still in the same cup.
INAsia & Pacific
Shade-grown coffee under spice trees, the only monsooned coffee in the world, and serious fine robusta.
IDAsia & Pacific
Wet-hulled Sumatra, and why an Indonesian cup tastes like nowhere else on earth.
PGAsia & Pacific
Garden-grown Typica in the highlands, sold in small lots, and one of the last places old varieties survived.
VNAsia & Pacific
The world's robusta powerhouse, and a specialty scene that is changing the species' reputation.
AUCoffee culture
3 pages on Buna Lab are about this country.
CNCoffee culture
One page on Buna Lab is about this country.
CUCoffee culture
One page on Buna Lab is about this country.
FICoffee culture
One page on Buna Lab is about this country.
DECoffee culture
One page on Buna Lab is about this country.
GRCoffee culture
One page on Buna Lab is about this country.
HTCoffee culture
One page on Buna Lab is about this country.
ITCoffee culture
6 pages on Buna Lab are about this country.
JPCoffee culture
One page on Buna Lab is about this country.
NZCoffee culture
2 pages on Buna Lab are about this country.
ESCoffee culture
One page on Buna Lab is about this country.
SECoffee culture
One page on Buna Lab is about this country.
CHCoffee culture
One page on Buna Lab is about this country.
TWCoffee culture
One page on Buna Lab is about this country.
TRCoffee culture
2 pages on Buna Lab are about this country.
GBCoffee culture
One page on Buna Lab is about this country.
USCoffee culture
5 pages on Buna Lab are about this country.
Grouped the way the trade groups them. Each one opens its country guide, or flies the map there.
Honey, citrus, clean, syrupy
Brown sugar, red apple, almond, creamy
Cocoa, orange, spice, full body
Caramel, stone fruit, cocoa, juicy
Milk chocolate, almond, soft citrus, light body
Milk chocolate, caramel, red apple, soft citrus
Jasmine, bergamot, tropical fruit, tea-like
Chocolate, hazelnut, low acidity, heavy body
Caramel, red apple, balanced acidity, clean
Milk chocolate, orange, almond, soft
Blackcurrant, lime, floral, silky
Jasmine, bergamot, stone fruit, tea-like
Blackcurrant, tomato, grapefruit, dense
Orange blossom, red apple, black tea, silky
Blackcurrant, lemon, brown sugar, medium body
Orange, brown sugar, blackcurrant, round
Dried fruit, spice, cocoa, winey
Spice, cocoa, low acidity, heavy body
Cedar, earth, herbs, heavy body
Tropical fruit, brown sugar, herbs, syrupy
Dark chocolate, walnut, heavy, low acid
Where coffee is drunk, argued over and built into machines: the countries our articles and brands are about.
Country outlines from Natural Earth, public domain. Growing regions placed from our origin guides.