Scored by a licensed Q grader in Medan, on a date, against a sample drawn from this lot. The exporter did not write this number and cannot change it.
SPECIALTY COFFEE EXPORT
Eighty-six points, fifteen hundred metres, washed. Prove any of it.
A roaster in Melbourne pays a large premium for a Gayo lot. The same weight of commercial grade sells for a third of the price, and the physical difference between the two bags is real but not visible.
By the time the roaster can verify anything, the coffee has crossed an ocean.
So the market runs on reputation and on cupping scores the seller commissioned. An exporter telling the truth is indistinguishable from one rounding up.
One lot, five claims, five different authors
Altitude of the collection point, recorded once. It does not change between harvests and it is the easiest claim to check on a map.
The processing method, recorded by the mill that did the processing rather than by whoever is selling the bag afterwards.
Harvest window. Roasters care because a two-year-old lot sold as current crop is the most common quiet substitution in the trade.
Quantity and packing. This is the exporter's own claim, and it is the one thing a roaster can verify by opening the container.
Every claim is signed by whoever was standing there when it became true. Nobody in the chain can rewrite another party's line, including us.
The farm-gate price is the number we guard hardest.
This is not squeamishness. It is the reason a traceability platform with an administrator is unusable for anyone in this trade.
The roaster never sees what we paid the farmer
A buyer who knows our cost negotiates against it directly, and a rival exporter who learns it simply pays more in the same villages next season.
One roaster never sees another's price
Our pricing differs by relationship and volume, as it does for every exporter, and always will.
The farmer's terms stay between us and the farmer
Purchase terms are not published to the buyer or to any other producer.
We hold no readable aggregate
The lot records belong to the parties on them, not to us as a dataset.
If you roast, export, or grow.
Being designed, nothing for sale. What helps is specific: what you verify today, and what you have had to take on trust.
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Takengon, Aceh Tengah