Sidra.
Bought to order. Cut for the cup, not the crowd.
Sidra
Everything the house knows about this lot, from the hillside to the bag.
- Lot
- OV-26-003
- Variety
- Sidra
- Selection
- Rare beans
- Process
- Honey
- Cup scoreA score out of 100 on the SCA cupping form. Specialty begins at 80. On a lot record the score always names who cupped it: the exporter, the house or a Q grader.More →
- 85 · Exporter's cupping
- PackingHow a lot is sealed for the voyage: a hermetic liner or vacuum pack inside the box, which keeps air and moisture off the green coffee.More →
- Confirmed with each lot
- Status
- Proposed for the first shipment.
Alpine Imports Limited trading as Oro Verde.
Sidra emerged in Ecuador with a parentage the trade got wrong. Its appearance suggests familiar lines; the marker work points somewhere else entirely. Colombian producers have begun to make it their own.
The house buys it to order, and each Lot recordThe house's own account of a lot: ground, grower, process, harvest, score and who scored it. A record kept by the house, not an independent grading.More → names only what is known.
More on Sidra →Ask about this lot.
Email Gio with roughly how many kilos you'd like, or ask for a 200 g sample. No account and no commitment. What roasters ask for decides what comes in on the first shipment.
Or write to info@alpineimports.co.nz. I reply within a working day.

