Quality control

Quality control

Due to our elaborate quality control guidelines, 85% of our coffee is deemed export quality. This starts in the fields and continues until after dry milling and grading. Our quality control team visits our wet mills and drying areas on a daily basis to ensure that our processing teams are following the policies we have in place. After reaching the appropriate moisture content on the drying tables, a sample of each daily harvest lot is brought to our cupping kitchen and analyzed by our quality control team. From there, we can begin to ascertain the quality of that particular year’s harvest and which lots meet our buyer’s preferred cup profiles.

Initially we send green coffee samples to a potential buyer for approval. This stock lot sample, once approved, allows us to bulk, bag and mark each bag with its unique lot number, allowing maximum trace-ability. For such samples, the internationally recognized SCAA form is used.