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Starbucks to buy more African coffee

March 6, 2005

If you get your caffeine fix from Starbucks, apparently you’re soon to be drinking more African coffee….

Starbucks plans to raise its coffee purchases from Africa, although the bulk of supply will continue to come from Latin America, an executive with the world’s largest coffee retailer said on Sunday.

Starbucks plans to buy more African coffee (MSNBC)

I’ve not had a vast amount of African coffees (other than the occasional bit of Etheopian Harrar), so I’m wondering what all we can expect in the way of new tastes… Or if they’ll even do variatels, or instead just add these into some of their blends in place of similar tasting varieties…

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