A washed red Tabi—the prized Bourbon x Typica x Hibrido de Timor cross developed by CENICAFE and renowned for its cup quality. It's fitting that the first coffees to grace this platform come from 575. Herbert at 575 is one of those producers who I talk to more than I buy from—I admire his pursuit of excellence and endless curiosity, and strongly align with the punk-rock, anti-commodity ethos which extends to his views on coffee farming ("if farmers want to make more money farming coffee, they should grow less") to the industry writ large ("we do not share photos of people for marketing."). When I started scheming to create a platform for producers to showcase their experiments, he was keen—and delegated the process to Oscar Valdez. Oscar put together a series of small experiments as a way to get market feedback for some of the team's ongoing explorations, and I agreed to buy them all. 📸: Herbert Peñaloza (@hdehner)
