Invalsa News
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Aug 19, 2020
We just received New Crop coffees from Bolivia. They are available at our warehouses in NJ, CA & MA
Read more →Just for variety a nice shot of Bolivian Alpaca and baby Cria. Nice shot, Nelson! Celso Mayta our 50/50 equity partner as Cafe Golondrina was the proud first-place winner of the 2019 Presidential Coffee competition (Bolivian successor to the COE), judged by an international Jury with 92 points and bought by Saza Coffee from Japan at $33/lb., at auction. The varietal is Geisha seeds that we imported from Finca La Esmeralda in Panama Our chief green coffee buyer and Coffee Lab Manager proudly showing our new Geisha cherries Juanjo Machicado our happy farm manager at Kantutani, where we are harvesting...
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Jun 19, 2019
WE ARE OPEN & SHIPPING NORMALLY. New Bolivian coffees are in and ready for immediate shipment!
Read more →We just received a whole container with the perennial favorites, Fair Trade Organic (FTO), Invalsa AAA, AA, Peaberry, and Cascara, as well as our own microlot from our farm in Copacabana, the Celso Mayta -Cafe Golondrina. Also microlots from Siete Estrellas and San Ignacio. Bolivian coffee production remains down. But there is hope as more and more farmers follow our example and renovate their farms with disease-resistant varietals. You can find them all here.
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Feb 25, 2019
2018 Organic Bolivian ABC cacao is in. Two varietals!
Read more →We just unloaded a full container with two varietals. Our Heirloom (silvestre) Beniano and our Walikeewa (hybrid, Amelonado). You can order them here:
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Dec 18, 2018
New Colombian coffees are in!
Read more →We just received a full container with our perennial favorite, the Santa Barbara Estate Excelso AA+, plus two microlots, one from Nariño, the other from Huila. Just in time for Christmas and the year-end celebrations. You can order them here:
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Jun 22, 2018
New Bolivian coffees are in!
Read more →We just received a whole container with the perennial favorites, Fair Trade Organic (FTO), Invalsa AAA, AA and A, as well as four new microlots from San Ignacio (two old favorites and two new, in for the first time) and one old favorite from from Kantutani (Cima del jaguar) and another new one from Amor de Dios. Did you know the Bolivian flag has three stripes: red, yellow and green? Note the symbolism of the pictured coffee cherries above! You can find them all here.
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Feb 08, 2018
A tasty new Burundian microlot just arrived!
Read more →We just received 10 bags of a superb, tasty and memorable Burundian, all-women microlot from the Matongo Community, Kinyovu Washing Station. Cupping Score: 86.5 points. Read the cupping notes. You can order it here. To clear warehouse space for our new Bolivian arrivals, were are putting on sale our other Burundian microlot, Ryirengeye,
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Dec 27, 2017
The Brazilians are in!
Read more →We just received a container with three superb Brazilian coffees: 1) Our perennial favorite: Sul Minas Natural, 2) Fazenda Cachoeira da Grama Pulped Natural, a worthy successor to Fazenda Rainha, and 3) a delightful Pulped Natural microlot, Fazenda Barreiro. BTW, Fazenda is Portuguese for Farm! You can find them all here. Give them a try!
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Nov 23, 2017
Black Friday Chocolate special!
Read more →Order Bolivian chocolate from Para Ti and get free shipping anywhere in the US on orders above $18! Just enter the code 'CHOCOLATEFREESHIP' at checkout.
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Oct 17, 2017
For the chocolate lovers
Read more →Did you know that we import Bolivian cacao, too? We didn't know this when we started out, either, but Bolivia is a special terroir for cacao, as well as for coffee. In 2013, the Invalsa team launched The Alto Beni Cacao Company, which helps smallholder farmers in the remote & tropical Alto Beni region of Bolivia to produce high quality cacao and processes it the reach industry-leading quality standards. This year, Para Ti, the largest Bolivian specialty chocolate company, became one of our customers for ABC cacao, and we are excited to be the only site where you can now...
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Apr 17, 2017
New Bolivian coffees are here!
Read more →Check out a whole new batch of Bolivian arrivals, including two micro-lots from Siete Estrellas producers offering a micro-lot for the first time, and several available for wholesale orders at the Annex in Oakland, CA.