Port of Mokha

12/13/2025

The best part of the holidays is the time spent together. The quiet hours in the morning when everyone gathers, opens gifts, and lingers in each other’s company. Those are the moments that stay with us.

Port of Mokha is a gift made for that morning. It is something you open right away, grind, brew, and share while the wrapping paper is still on the floor. The aroma fills the house, people drift toward the kitchen, and the day unfolds with a warmth that feels deeper and more connected.

Christmas morning is already special, and it deserves something extraordinary.

03/21/2025

As many of you may be aware, Ramadan for Muslims is a time when we give up food and water during the day. But what many maybe don’t know is that due to Ramadan’s timing, it often means also giving up coffee—and not just during the daylight hours, but often entirely for the whole month. Some Muslims choose to brave the 7pm brew or 4am double shot. But, for most it’s just not feasible, so we give it up entirely, leading to a coffee-free month. Our first sip of coffee after 30 days is on the morning of the Eid celebration.

Let me tell you now from experience, that first sip of coffee on the morning of Eid is absolute, complete, and utter ecstasy. There really is no other word to describe it. It’s unbelievable. I would actually go as far as to recommend to anyone, if you get the chance, give up coffee for a week or two, or a month if you can—just long enough to truly appreciate that first sip again. You’ll experience and appreciate coffee like never before.

So, in the spirit of Eid and that first blissful sip on Eid morning, we’re offering 20% off storewide to everyone, whether you’re celebrating Eid or not. No matter your spiritual orientation or coffee routine, this discount is for you.

To those bringing coffee back into their lives after missing it this month, and to our loyal customers continuing their daily cup—we hope you truly enjoy.

Happy Eid, Eid Mubarak, Eid Kareem, Eid Sa’eed!

I love you all, stay caffeinated,
Mokhtar Alkhanshali

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02/07/2025

As we step into February, a month where we celebrate love, we enter a season where, perhaps more than any other, people share, send, and appreciate poetry. It’s a beautiful thing. Poetry has always been the highest form of human expression through language, able to capture emotions, ideas, and observations so precise and elusive that prose will inevitably struggle to fully contain.

In Arab culture, poetry has long been more than just an art form; it has been a force that shapes history. It starts and ends wars. It is used to welcome guests and dishonor enemies. It honors lovers, mourns losses, and gives life to the unspoken depths of human emotion.

In this beautiful month and in honor of this tradition, we wanted to highlight one of my favorite short love poems by Ḥassān bin Thābit, a famous Yemeni poet and one of the honored companions of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.

His words capture the delicate beauty of longing and love:

ولقد رأيتك في منامي ليلةً
‏فنسيت ماقد كان من أحزان
I saw you in my dream one night,
and forgot my sorrow.

وحسبت نومي في حضورك يقظةً
‏حتى أفقت على فراقٍ ثان
Your presence in my dream felt like wakefulness
until I awoke to a second separation.

لو كنت أعلم أن الحلم يجمعنا
‏لأغمضت طول الدهر أجفاني
Had I known that dreams would bring us together,
I would have closed my eyes for the rest of my life.

This February, each order of our gift coffees will include the beautifully printed card featuring this poem that you see in the photos above. The original Arabic text is elegantly printed in gold. We hope this small tribute to poetry, love, and the beauty of language brings you joy.

02/06/2025

Coffee made with care, to give to those we care about the most. Celebrate love with us this year. Link in bio.

02/04/2025

For me, in my life as a coffee lover, there are few things I treasure more than intimate moments shared over a cup of coffee. With loved ones, significant others, friends, and the people who matter most.

Coffee has a way of bringing us together, deepening our conversations, strengthening our bonds. I truly believe it's something, that with the right intentions, can be used to improve and even mend our relationships.

In this month where we celebrate love, I invite you to slow down, be present, listen, and connect. And I can’t think of a better way to do that, than over of warm cup of coffee.

Give the gift of a meaningful moment. A thoughtful ritual. A cup that brings us closer. Find the perfect coffee to share this Valentine’s Day with us. Link in bio.

-Mokhtar Alkhanshali

12/05/2024

The Mokha Monthly Subscription is the ultimate experience for any coffee lover who treasures the finest single-origin coffee.

Each month, we select a unique lot from one of our Al Khanshali Estate farms in Yemen, capturing the essence of the region’s extraordinary flavors.

Along with every bag of coffee, subscribers receive a beautifully designed card featuring the story and details of the chosen lot, paired with a stunning photo on the back. Many of our subscribers have begun collecting these cards, displaying them on their refrigerators, or even framing them as cherished keepsakes.

This subscription is essential for anyone looking to explore the unparalleled diversity and rich flavor of pure Yemeni coffee.

12/04/2024

Our per-paid subscriptions are the gift that keeps on giving (literally). Every month, you’ll receive the finest Yemeni coffee, cared for by expert farmers in heralded coffee farms, sourced from the mountains thousands of meters above Yemen - and delivered straight to your door.

We roast and ship out all subscription orders during the first week of every month. Purchases placed on or after the 23rd will receive the following months subscription. One purchase of subscription delivers one bag of coffee for the months micro-lot.

12/03/2024

First Taste | Tropical, Peach, Kiwi
Final Sip | Strawberry, Watermelon, Chocolate Orange

Al-Khanshali Estates is the newest evolution in our founder, Mokhtar Alkhanshali's, journey as a coffee professional and farmer—a collection of owned and partner coffee estates in Yemen where his primary goal is to push the envelope with experimental processing and novel cultivation techniques to tap into the incredible potential of Yemeni coffee. Alkhanshali Estate One is the crown jewel, a coffee farm he owns and operates and has intimate control over every step of the coffee production process.

Lot 1 was an absolute standout in our most recent harvest, coming from one of the highest elevation peaks in Al-Khanshali Estate I, largely under shade-grown conditions, and processed using the innovative ASD (Anaerobic Slow Dry) method. This is the same coffee processing method used earlier this year at the Best of Panama auction by Lamastus Estates, which broke the world record for the most expensive coffee ever sold, reaching an incredible $10,013 per kilo. Under the mentorship of Wilford Lamastus and his family, Mokhtar applied this same process to craft this extraordinary coffee.

Lot 1 offers an exotic journey with every sip. You’ll discover notes of succulent peach, vibrant orange marmalade, tropical kiwi, ripe strawberries, and crisp watermelon. It’s a dazzling array of bright, sweet, and complex fruit flavors—perfect as a gift or to indulge in yourself.

12/02/2024

First Taste | Bergamot, Marmalade, Vanilla
Final Sip | Pineapple, Lavendar

At Port of Mokha, our Single Farmer Lot box has become a staple of our offerings and continues to be our best seller. Throughout the year, we rotate different farmer lots that reflect the distinctive and unparalleled character of Yemeni coffee.

Each lot selected for this offering captures the intimate bond between Yemen’s farmers and their rich coffee-growing regions, the generations of tradition and expertise, and the processing methods that best accentuate the coffee’s inherent virtues.

This season’s Single Farmer Lot comes from our partner estate, Alkhanshali III, located in West Haraz. It features the Udaini variety, grown at a staggering 2,300 meters above sea level and processed using the time-honored sun-dried natural method; dried for 15 days on raised African drying beds. The coffee presents a bright, lively aroma with notes of green apple, pineapple, and jolly rancher, followed by a long-lingering aftertaste that sparkles on the rim of the palate. A truly remarkable coffee that we sincerely hope you enjoy.

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12/01/2024

First Taste | Chocolate Covered Strawberries, Clover Honey, Creamy Body
Final Sip | Black Currant, Pecan, Apple Pie
Coffee Sourced From: Yemen, Brazil, Indonesia

There’s nothing quite like a hot cup of coffee on a cold winter’s day. Sipping it on your morning commute, watching passersby breathe clouds of v***r into the frosty air. Wrapped in a blanket on a Saturday morning, watching the snowfall from your window. Coffee is the warmth that makes the chill outside all the more enjoyable. Every sip is a little moment of comfort, a companion to the quiet stillness of winter.

For our Winter Blend, we wanted to capture that feeling. The flavors that define this season—pecan, apple pie, chocolate—are meant to evoke those cozy moments.

Perfect to be shared, given, or indulged in yourself, we hope our Winter Blend can be there to make the season a little brighter, a little easier, and a whole lot warmer.