Addis Coffee Cup #3
Hosted by the Embassy of the USA, with the specialty roasters who set North American demand on the line.
Why this one is on the calendar.
The American specialty market moves on story and on score together, and it buys deep when it commits. This stop puts the lots in front of the roasters and importers who can take a whole washing station’s output. The room is deliberately wider than the coffee trade. Alongside exporters, unions and cooperatives sit the host embassy’s economic team, development financiers, agri-tech founders, and buyers who came to taste rather than to be pitched. That mix is the point: a lot that clears at auction in front of an ambassador travels differently to one that clears in a warehouse.
This event has taken place; the page above is the record of how it ran. The calendar carries what is still ahead.