Coffee Label Facts: What Each Bag Actually Documents

What this dataset covers

Coffees we hold a record for, which is every bag our guides and tools reference. It is not every coffee sold. A blank is a label that does not state the fact, not a fact we withheld.

Where the figures come from

Each bag’s own label and retail listing, read on the date recorded against the row, and compiled through the same reader the Coffee Matchmaker uses so the two cannot disagree. We have not cupped these coffees and no column here is a tasting note.

What we do not hold

• Originmissing for 47 of 100
• Regionmissing for 65 of 100
• Processmissing for 73 of 100
• Varietymissing for 92 of 100
• Roastmissing for 20 of 100
• Sold asmissing for 41 of 100
• Label brew methodmissing for 75 of 100
• Label readmissing for 5 of 100

Fields not listed are documented for every row. A gap is a gap: we do not estimate a missing figure, and an undocumented value sorts last rather than as zero.

No scores here

This table carries specifications only. Where we have evaluated a product, its standing is named on its row and its reasoning is on its award page — a sortable column of scores would turn a reference table into a ranking, which is not what this is.