Love Letters Charming Coffee is a small, release-driven roastery in Dallas, Texas that buys at the rare end of the green market and roasts ultralight, so that almost nothing stands between the lot and the cup. Its releases are individual microlots rather than a standing catalogue — bought in the quantity the harvest allowed, and offered while they last.

The sourcing runs to specifics: Elias and Shady Bayter's Sidra lots from El Vergel in Tolima, Marlon Bolaños's SL28 and Pink Bourbon from La Loma, Paola Trujillo's thermal-shock and anaerobic experiments at Patio Bonito in Cauca, a single Gesha daylot from Plot 11 at Damarli Estate in Panama, and washed lots from the Kii, Gachatha and Kathima stations in Kenya and Danche in Ethiopia. Green handling gets the same attention as the buying — the most limited lots are frozen at peak freshness and held unroasted until orders are confirmed, rather than sitting in storage losing what made them worth buying in the first place.

The result is a catalogue that turns over constantly and conforms to no house profile. Each release is chosen for one producer, one harvest and one place, then roasted light enough to let all three come through.