Coffee

• Peach, Apricot, Vanilla
• Medium Body, Bright Acidity

Guji is a sub-city of Sidama in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. This coffee from importer Keffa has a clean, lemon candy and floral flavor and rounds out with more complex stone fruit notes.

In the Atitlan region of central Guatemala, the Echeverria family has been producing and processing exceptional quality coffees since 1870. Originally named Finca Ceylan & Colima, the name was later changed to Finca Ceylan & Anexos (annexes) as other farms became a part of it. The farm hires mostly local labor, generating jobs for people in the surrounding towns.

Conscientious environmental practices are employed in and around the farm. The coffee residue from the wet mill is used as an organic fertilizer for the farm, creating a self-sufficient system. To protect its abundant water resources, the farm maintains the river basins and the natural vegetation that grows nearby. Before disposal, the water used in the wet mill processing is filtered through oxidation tanks to prevent contamination of the nearby rivers.

Finca Ceylan has a natural forest reserve that is protected - hunting and fishing are prohibited - to conserve different species of trees, plants, and wildlife in the ecosystem. The farm has qualified for organic certification and is also bird-friendly certified by the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center. The farm’s employees and their families are provided with housing, drinkable water, and educational benefits. The cultivation of alternative crops such as cardamom, macadamia nuts, bananas, and plantains also helps to provide for the well-being of the farm families.

The coffee plantation is located in the mountainous part of Concepción Las Minas. A transnational mining corporation mined this area from 1967 until 1973. The father of the current owner, Rene, had to face this transnational corporation that did not allow him to continue working the land because of their mining interests. His father was willing to give his life to defend his land but still the transnational corporation did not pay him even a penny and  basically looted all the valuable minerals and destroyed the land. Since 1973, the land began to recover and in 1983 we began to establish a small coffee plantation of caturra plants.Currently, Rene has come to establish 15.00 hectares of coffee, caturra, actuai and a small percentage of this year will be Maragogype,harvested separately.    

In 2000, 62 Honduran coffee farmers joined together with a common goal to transform their farms from conventional to organic production and formed COMSA (Cafe Organico Marcala, S.A). In 2001, fostered by a foundation called Funder, COMSA earned their organic certification which enabled them to market their coffee to more international buyers and receive better prices for their coffee. In February 2006, COMSA then applied for and was granted Fair Trade certification status. COMSA uses their Fair Trade premiums to fund social projects like paying teachers’ salaries, purchasing school supplies, building kitchens in the schools and providing meals for school children.

Part of the Mutheka Farmers Co-operative Society Ltd., Chorongi is one of six wet mills. Established in 1969, Chorongi has around 1,000 members, one-third of which are women. The small farms have an average of 211 coffee trees and each season the farmers bring their coffee cherries to the mill to be processed. Salted caramel and brown sugar sweetness balances well with red fruit flavors, citrus-like acidity, a pleasant floral note and silky body.

Mamuto grows on the volcanic slopes below Mount Kenya, which rises 17,000 feet above. The farm is 21 acres. All the coffee is processed at the farm, including drying. After six weeks, it is transported for final milling, packaging, and shipping. The resulting coee is extraordinary, a stellar example of what makes Kenyan coffees so cherished.

Presidio de los Reyes is an indigenous community located about an hour and half drive north of Tepic, Mexico. As natives to the area, to this day they still carry many traditions from the past. The local cooperative, Cerro de los Cuernos, was created on January 22, 2001 and for many years the society was lead by Alberto Flores Vargas. Alberto's son Diego later took charge of the cooperative, which he leads to this day. While all of the farmers live in the town Presidio de los Reyes, their farms are set far back in the mountains and are only accessible by a four hour mule ride.

La Llama comes from many small producers and is milled and imported by La Minita but exported from Peru by Prodelsur. One of our best sellers and a customer favorite, this french roast has a big and bold body, a sweet and rustic flavor and pleasant, mild acidity.

Royal Select Water Processed Decaf coffee is sourced from lots that the Royal team has selected based on cupping evaluations. After selection, the green coffee is pre-soaked in water to expand the beans for caffeine extraction. Unlike decaffeination processes that use chemicals, the beans are then introduced to a solution concentrated with coffee solubles that extract the caffeine without extracting the coffee’s particular flavor.