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Originally posted by Mule
As to the "gourmet" beans, the coffee business works like this. The buyer goes down to Columbia (where most top quality coffee is grown) & negtiates with the farmer for certain fields or maybe his entire crop. The next time the buyer sees the coffee it is at his dock. He goes throughout the ship getting samples. He roasts, & tastes all the samples. He then decides wether to accept the coffee & release payment or not. Next year he goes back to the same farmers he delt with this hear. Now what all these "gourmet" brands want us to believe is this: the farmer who has fed his family dealing with a particular guy for years is selling him the bunk. We go down there & buy 20 sacks of "the good stuff" that he only sells to us. BOOWLSHEEET
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This ALSO TRUE of the CA Wine Industry....I once atteneded several Cigar Smokers held at Don Gallieno's Winery. Don's main buisness is wholesaleing grapes...his passion are his Sherrys and Ports..they continually win Gold Medals....What does he personally drink....his Jug Red Wines....why because they are as good as anything you pay the big bux for....
Late in the evening, Don deep in the cups took us through the winery with a flashlight....opening this cask and that cask, climbing up in the rafters to sample this and that..some he said weren't quiet ready....some we just drank straight from the cask through a plactic tube....and other he would crafe....nobody left that place walking a straight line....and the cigars were good to.. by the way....