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Just before the lockdown, I decide to travel to Colombia at the last minute for a coffee tasting as part of our Coffee for Peace project. I was invited to be the chief judge of a panel of experienced, articulate tasters. An honor and a pleasure, because I find discussing and interpreting flavor profiles together especially fascinating. The event is held at a beautiful hacienda not too far from Medellín. At the end of the coffee day, after about three days of intense smelling and slurping, there is the auction of the very best lots. In the auction room I find myself in a veritable Colombian pandemonium. In the back about sixty jubilant coffee farmers from picturesque villages like Caicedo and Urrao and in front about twenty somewhat bewildered international coffee tasters. And then the auction begins!

The new harvest of Kachalu coffee is ready! It's February, an exciting time. In Colombia, the Kachalu cooperative has selected some special coffee lots for Boot coffee at extra high quality. This specialty quality is known among coffee nerds as "84+" (based on an internationally recognized standardized scoring system for the quality, taste and aroma of coffee beans). Boat Coffee pays coffee farmers an extra bonus for higher quality coffee beans.

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Abdullah's second limited edition coffee, the Rwanda Gatatu Washed. This washed espresso coffee is beautifully fresh and suits warm weather. An easy drinking espresso coffee and accessible. With apple, peach, and lemon in the overtones and caramel-like spices within.

At the end of February, I traveled to Colombia. I went to taste as a judge in the finals of winning local coffee farmers of the competitions "The Best Coffee of Antioquia" and "The Best Coffee of Cauca". These are annual competitions to which leading coffee roasters from all over the world are invited. The participating coffee farmers, most of whom have only 0.5 to 1.5 hectares of coffee, live and work in areas where (until recently) the Colombian cocaine mafia calls the shots. Locally, it plays a prominent, manipulative role in pressuring the farmers to grow coca plants.