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The places the certificates describe.

Estate, drying beds, hulling line, laboratory, packhouse. Captioned so you can see what you are looking at rather than admiring the scenery.

Eight views

Visitors are welcome at Da Lat and Ho Chi Minh City without advance notice beyond arranging transport.

  • Terraced fields cut into a steep green hillside in northern Vietnam

    Cau Dat estate, plot 14B

    Arabica at 1,520 m. The altitude is what the cupping score depends on.

  • Coffee beans spread out to dry in the sun on a concrete patio

    Raised drying beds

    Separate beds per harvest pass — the throughput cost that keeps lots traceable.

  • Interior of a seed and produce storage warehouse

    Intake weighbridge

    Moisture and foreign matter measured before a lot enters the facility.

  • Food processing and packing facility interior

    Hulling line

    Cleaned and recorded between lots. The cleaning record is part of the audit trail.

  • Technician working at a bench in a food analysis laboratory

    Quality laboratory

    Moisture, water activity, defect count, and cupping, per lot.

  • Close-up of unroasted green coffee beans

    Cupping room

    Three cups per lot against the SCA protocol, scored before shipment.

  • Agricultural workers harvesting in a crop field

    Packhouse, fresh produce

    Field-cooled within four hours, graded and packed under cold chain.

  • Stacked shipping containers at a export container terminal

    Container sealing

    Seal number photographed against the lot code before departure.

Next step

See it in person.

Photographs are the weakest form of evidence we offer. The strongest is picking a bag in our warehouse and asking where it came from.

No advance notice required. Bring your own checklist.