Meet the coffees in your sample box….

A collection of our signature single origin coffees. Your sample box will let you experience different coffee profiles that taste amazing as milky drinks and just as good as espresso! You will experience a range of flavours from chocolatey to nutty originating from origins around the world such as Brazil and Kenya.

In your sample box you will receive 4x 250g bags to sample and you can choose between two grind types; whole bean or home espresso grind.

The Potencia

Mió is a family run farm in Monte Santo de Minas, Brazil. The city has a strong Carnaval tradition that has been celebrated every year since 1930. Its main streets close and two rival groups, Braz and Belém, battle it out in parades.

Mió take enormous pride in the traceability of their coffee, and offer detailed reports to their roasters on the exact journey that the coffee has taken. This coffee uses a red honey process, whereby 70 – 80% of the mucilage stays attached to the beans, when they are then dried, and subsequently rested in silos for 30 to 60 days. 

Traceability is of huge importance to Mió. Each stage of the journey, from where the cherries were harvested, which trucks moved them, how and when they were processed.

Cafe Femenino

This is a dark smokey coffee that packs a punch, for those who enjoy a highly developed roast containing a flavour profile of berries & dark chocolate. Founded in 2006 with the aim of guaranteeing traceability along the supply chain, Permata Gayo manages all aspects of coffee production, improving both consistency and quality.

The Galling-Basah process is unique to Cafe Femenino and involves three steps, depending on moisture content: ‘Gabah’, wet parchment coffee which is dried immediately and hulled; ‘Labu’, wet green beans at about 30-40% humidity; and finally ‘Assalan’, which is exported at 12-13% humidity. This process produces a deep blue or green hue to the raw coffee, creating a special cupping profile.

Peaberry

This Peaberry, Zawadi, is a blend created and maintained by using carefully selected peaberries primarily from the Kamandi and Ndia-ini coffee factories. This particular coffee is produced in Nyeri County, just off the centre of the country, and adjacent to Mount Kenya: the largest mountain in the country.

Kenya uses varietals that are very rarely found in any other country, quite simply because they were designed in Kenya, for use in Kenya. SL28, for example, was created by Scott Laboratories, by cross-breeding multiple varietals that were prominent at the time. Similarly, Ruiri 11 was developed in Ruiru, Kenya, for its rust-resistant properties, and is becoming increasingly popular. No wonder this coffee is named after the Swahili for ‘gift’.

Reserva

La Laguna is a collection of twelve families and their individual farms, called collectively the ‘Manantial Association’. Each family looks after their own smallholder farm, including picking, pulping and drying, before grouping together the entire harvest into the Laguna we know and love. Unlike other farms in the surrounding areas, Laguna is grown almost entirely under shade.

Farmers are also strongly encouraged to produce their own fertiliser from organic materials. The varietals are typical of Colombia as a whole, except for the very special F6 - this is created by selectively breeding the absolute best and biggest Castillo cherries at their peak of six years, for six generations.