About Adventure Coffees (A few words about Countries of Origin (Coffee and the Nation State) Lest we forget, national identities were a relatively recent arrival in the history of our planet, and even among its young resident fauna. The specific environmental conditions within a designated national state are almost always hugely diverse, providing vastly different (and/or sometimes subtle but distinctly different) conditions, vegetation, soils and weather—and hence, agricultural crops. All ergo true of coffee as well. So why two Colombians instead of just one? Hey why not twenty Colombians? Of which there actually are that many from many coffee producing “countries” from their different regions. Or even different farms in the same region! So stick with GTL as we join a small but growing band of coffee globe trekkers (maybe we’ll do a TV program starting on this web site near you?) in pursuit of the “Cup of Excellence” (see the next Coffee Intelligence Monitor in our link “Coffee News” for how we’re going about this, staring with an account of our recent cupping expedition in of all wild and remote places, Staten Island! There we heard grumbling among coffee roasters about dumping the country names of coffees and using only regional origin names as wines do) That way you can encounter the best of not only Colombia but all the other 40 or so coffee “countries”—if and when we feel they rate “excellent” (If you.'d like to be part of this decision making process, you can do it, we can help, to skim from a well known notion… (“Timor” and “Sumatra” are examples of this: Timor was until recently part of Indonesia, so Timor could (and may) have been labeled “Indonesian” coffee, and if mixed in with Sumatra—a province of Indonesia—might not have been identified as the truly different chocolatiness from the characteristic Sumatran “earthiness”. (Even while to complicate things the way coffee often does, these may be either the same chemical components altered by different soils, and/or different configurations of the same chemicals, or combining with others.) Similarly, “Mexico” and “Guatemala” abut, such that the Mexican state of Oaxaca and the neighboring region of Guatemala’s coffees share characteristics not found elsewhere in either country!