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Seasonal Blend PERSEPHONEBLEND 2025 By The Coffee Department | March 21, 2025 The Variety Spring Yesterday marked the first day of spring—the vernal equinox—in the Northern Hemisphere. The tension of the transition was on full display here in Chicago. We woke to a thick blanket of wet snow, only for the sun to break through in the early afternoon and melt away any traces of winter's lasting grasp on the early morning hours. If you were up too late the night before cutting all your pants into shorts and slept through noon, you might not have known it snowed at...

WINTER SEASONAL BLEND BOREALIS BLEND By Intelligentsia Sourcing | December 20, 2024 WINTER Seasonal blend BOREALISBLEND By Intelligentsia Sourcing | December 20, 2024 New single origin COLOMBIASTRIPED RED BOURBON COLOMBIASTRIPED RED BOURBON By Intelligentsia Sourcing | January 26, 2024 The Variety Blend Component 1: Kirite Washed Within Ethiopia, we have yet to find anyone producing more flavorful coffees more consistently than the Adinew family operation, METAD. As operators of the first CQI-certified lab in Africa, the highly trained teams at METAD washing stations apply best-in-class quality control processes to create opportunities for thousands of smallholder coffee growers. We first partnered...