Top 10 Heirloom Specialty Coffees

Top 10 coffees · 2026 · Ranked by expert rating

Heirloom isn’t one cultivar but a vast, uncatalogued genetic pool from Ethiopia’s forests and highlands — the reason Ethiopian coffee swings from jasmine-bright to intensely fruited depending on the hillside it grew on. These are the highest-rated pure Heirloom coffees in our catalog of 63 rated beans, drawn from 34 different roasters.