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Quality, traceability, direct trade, reasonable price, unique flavor, good handling. These are the excellent properties of individual coffee and micro-batch coffee.

But if you put aside these definitions, do you know what "single origin" means? What is the difference between a single manor, micro-batch or even nano-batch? How else can producers make sure that micro-batches are not mixed with other batches of coffee?

Micro batch

The coffee comes from a specific area of an estate, sometimes from a small farm, or from a small plot of land shared by many producers.

Coffee is harvested and processed in small batches, and micro-batches of coffee are usually of very good quality because of higher labor costs, which in turn leads to higher back-end prices. Terra said O'coffee 's micro-batch coffee had a cup score of about 87-89 points and produced about 40 packets of 60-kilogram sacks.

Nano batch

As the name suggests, nanobatches are very similar to microbatches, but on a smaller scale. Terra said their nano-batch cup test scores are usually above 90, and then there are only 1-to 2-pack of 60-kilogram sacks.

Why choose single manor and micro-batch?

So single origin is not that good? Does coffee have to come from a single farm, micro-batch and nano-batch in order to be of high quality? And what if microbatches are assembled from several estates?

When the third wave of coffee is becoming more and more popular and the transmission of information between farmers and consumers is faster, we should pay more attention to the meaning of origin. The nature and quality of soil, climate, variety selection and treatment will have a great impact on the quality of coffee.

This is why we should avoid introducing coffee solely by country or large producing areas. A single origin like Brazil is basically meaningless, because Brazil produces about 30% of the world's coffee, even if it comes from Brazil's Minas Gerais, because Brazil's Minas Gerais produces more coffee than most countries in the world.