Our Coffee Programme
We work closely, building lasting relationships with producers and exporters, exploring terroir, process, and varietal; respecting every stage of the journey; understanding seasonality, challenges, and opportunities. Read on to learn more about how our coffee programme works, what we offer, and why.
Our Approach
When it comes to showcasing exceptional coffee, our coffee programme is designed to bring you a carefully curated collection of the very best, throughout the year. Always in pursuit of coffee excellence, we travel the bean belt – and beyond – to showcase some of the world’s finest speciality coffee.
Our coffee portfolio can be split into 3 collections:
- Mainstay
- Feature
- Special Edition
Mainstay Collection
Consistently available throughout the year for as long as 6-12 months.
Within our mainstay collection, you’ll find espresso focused coffee; coffee that brews brilliantly for filter; coffee blends; and single-origin coffee. Our mainstay collection is our core range, developed and available year after year, giving you the chance to get to know some exceptional coffee, and enjoy the reassurance of a finding and enjoying a consistent brew. Coffees in our mainstay range are great for office and home subscriptions, and for the pleasure of experiencing a regular tasting profile, every day.
Blends vs Single Origin
Coffee Blends
Our coffee blends are sourced and roasted with consistency and quality at their core. These are the types of blends you’ll find in the hopper at some of your favourite independent speciality coffee shops, providing a reassuringly familiar, great-tasting coffee all year round. Our roasters create recipes that mean that, when the components change, due to the seasonality of coffee, the tasting profile remains the same. When you’re after a regular, well-rounded cup of coffee – perhaps your go-to to start the day – then a coffee blend can be the perfect choice for a reliable, everyday brew.
Single Origin
Among our mainstay collection, as well as feature releases, you’ll find plenty of single origin coffee on offer. Among these, are firm customer favourites, like San Fermin, and Los Altos, that come from a single producer, crop, or region; these are sourced time and time again through nurtured relationships, purchased season after season. Alongside these, we release weekly feature coffees, that we will buy in smaller lots, offering a chance to discover new landscapes, exploratory processes, and interesting varietals. Like everything we source, these single origin coffees are of the highest quality, with high cup scores as standard.
Mainstay - Blends
Resolute
One of our most popular blends, Resolute is full-bodied, comforting coffee that makes for a classic, consistent cup. Easy drinking, with notes of chocolate, caramel, and stone fruit.
Stronghold
Stronghold pays respect to a darker, more traditional roasting profile, offering up beautiful sweetness, and no acidity. This blend – with tasting notes of dark chocolate, fudge, and brown sugar – is the result of friendship and trust, a celebration of direct trade partnerships, and exceptional coffee from Brazil.
Pathfinder
Pathfinder celebrates the roads less travelled. Sweet, vibrant, and fruitful—it’s a coffee that has, since conception, bound the unique terroir of each component, bringing them together to create a cup bursting with character. It's a seasonal coffee so the destination will change this 3-4 times a year, rotating the origin based on seasonality, provenance and our Direct Trade relationships.
Mainstay - Single Origin
Mariano
Mariano comes from a 12-year partnership with Origin, one of our longest-standing relationships. This coffee features a soft, round body with notes of milk chocolate, marzipan, and plum.
Los Altos
Los Altos is a coffee that lies at the core of who we are. We’ve worked with the brilliant Mierisch family for over 12 years, a Direct Trade relationship based on a commitment to quality and progress. Full-bodied, with soft acidity, Los Altos remains as popular today as ever—with good reason.
Santa Elena
Experience the finest coffee from Santa Elena farm. Grown in high-altitude volcanic soil, hand-picked and meticulously processed by award-winning producer, Fernando Lima.
Atlas (Decaf)
Our approach to decaf is to create a balanced and approachable cup profile. Championing quality, Atlas is a woman led, supported, and empowered coffee, showcasing the good that comes from providing a platform for positive change.
Our decaf coffee is single origin, and just as delicious in a flat white, as it is as an AeroPress brew. Versatile and dependable, we seek out coffee that will benefit from the decaffeination process and how it influences the final cup.
Learn more about how coffee is decaffeinated
Feature Collection
Small batch lots available for a limited time, when they're gone they're gone. We release a new feature coffee every week on Monday.
Our feature coffees are single origin, sourced from some of the most progressive producers around the world—sometimes from the same farms and people who cultivate coffee for our mainstay collection. There are feature coffee releases from producers we’ve never worked with before, in countries new to our exploration, and there are feature coffees we’re delighted to bring back year after year when seasonality and crop allow, sharing much loved favourites with subscribers and new customers alike.
Our feature coffees are roasted with the intention to be brewed any way, making them versatile and accessible to all, opening the world of speciality coffee and the potential to explore some of the most exciting landscapes of coffee production. These coffees are sourced and bought in smaller quantities than our mainstay range; when launched, they sell fast, which is why we introduce a new feature coffee every week. Often, these smaller quantities are bought as a result of smaller, experimental cultivation, and help us minimise wasted coffee product.
Special Edition Collection
The pinnacle of speciality coffee. These very rare coffee releases are only dropped 3-4 times a year.
Our special edition releases sell out fast—and with good reason. These releases aren’t just about Cup of Excellence scores and small crops. They’re not just about exclusivity, or rare varietals. Each special edition coffee is released to highlight and celebrate partnerships, experimentation, collaborations, and terroir. And, of course, they showcase exceptional coffee, cultivated and produced by some of the most remarkable people in the speciality coffee industry. From award-winning crops, to releases that mark occasions, people, and events, our special editions provide an opportunity to support the incredible work of farmers and producers, celebrating them in style.
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