Yemen has a place in coffee culture like no other nation in the world: the first to grow coffee commercially and the source of almost all the commercially grown cultivars in the world. Beyond these well-known coffees like Bourbon or Typica, Yemen holds a completely separate, unique set of varieties. These have remained a central part of cultivation on staggeringly beautiful highland terraces, and form the basis of exotic flavour profiles that sets these coffees apart. Despite this long history of cultivation, access to traceable, very high-quality Yemeni coffee is very recent. Exporter Sheba Coffee works with a network of village communities...