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Oni Coffee
Osaka, Japan
Oni Coffee is a specialty coffee roastery and café on Minami-Horie's Orange Street in Osaka's Nishi Ward. It roasts in the shop and sells its beans there and online: two house blends, Aka Oni (赤鬼, dark and chocolatey) and Ao Oni (青鬼, light and floral), plus a rotating line of single origins.
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The red-demon house blend (赤鬼): dark chocolate and caramel with a quiet berry finish. Built as an everyday cup that is still something to look forward to.
Dark chocolate, caramel, berry
The blue-demon house blend (青鬼): stone fruit, florals and a tea-like finish in one cup, roasted light for slower, more attentive brewing.
Stone fruit, floral, tea-like
Sitio da Torre has been in the Coli family since the 19th century, passed down through four generations in the Mantiqueira highlands. Financial trouble forced Paulo Coli to sell 30 hectares in 1985; the family bought the land back 34 years later. Every cherry is hand-picked across 46 hectares and dried on raised beds the day it is harvested, and the farm has placed in the Cup of Excellence 29 times.
Milk chocolate, red fruits, medium body
Caturra grown at 1,800 m in the Nariño highlands by Huver Castillo, a former maths teacher turned third-generation farmer. Six days of enzyme-assisted fermentation bring out bright citrus and tropical fruit.
Orange blossom, tropical fruit, melon
Chelchele sits 447 km from Addis Ababa in the Gedeo Zone. Its cherries come from small garden plots where shade trees, fallen leaves and native fruit feed the soil, grown without pesticides.
Berries, stone fruit, black tea
A washed AA lot from three Kirinyaga factories, Kagongo, Kagumo and Riakiania, bought through Dorman's. A mix of SL28, SL34, Ruiru 11 and Batian, the varieties common across the region's smallholder farms.
Brown sugar, blood orange, oolong tea
La Perla is a project run entirely by women in Lonya Grande. The Norcafé cooperative, founded by university students from coffee-farming families, set it up to give women of all ages a way into the industry on their own terms; more than 470 families now belong to the cooperative.
Mikan, yellow peach, Darjeeling