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D-specialty-coffee Dictionary

Specialty coffee

High-quality coffee scored and sold at a premium

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Plain meaning
High-quality coffee scored and sold at a premium
How to use it
Aim for specialty quality and sell to roasters who pay for it.
South African benchmark
South Africa is a coffee consumer and roaster rather than a grower (Article 123).
Country notes
Applies the same way in all five markets.
Go and read
M18-U2, M18-U5, M18-U6, C8 Lesson 8.2
Calculate it
T-M18-04 Processing Margin
Library sources
LIB-A124, LIB-P-Rooibos, LIB-P-Honeybush
See also
Green coffee, Provenance
Tea and Coffee: the product, the five stages of the business, the unit it is sold by and where it is producedTea and Coffee: how the business runsSold bykg of green leaf or green coffee1Plant2Grow bushes3Pluck green leaf4Factory5Made tea or green coffeeZAZWZMBWNAProduces commerciallyImports most needsZA South Africa, ZW Zimbabwe, ZM Zambia, BW Botswana, NA Namibia
From the Tea and Coffee Major, where this term is introduced.

Introduced in M18 Tea and Coffee.