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We have two new delicious bars of chocolate from Chocolarder on our counter this month. Chocolarder continue to impress with their range of single origin bars made from directly sourced cocoa beans and they have recently posted some terrific videos in their Cornish-bean-to-bar series on their Instagram – well worth viewing to watch UK-grown cacao being processed into a chocolate … Continue reading

This month we will finalise the shipping of the second container of coffee we bought in December in Huila, Colombia. We will also speak with all the farmers we buy from in Huila and learn more about their pruning and fertilisation plans for the coming year; the plans will help us estimate what size harvest the farmers are expecting later … Continue reading

This month we will finalise the shipping of the first of two containers of coffee we bought in December in Huila, Colombia. We have been buying coffee directly in this region since 2012 when we started our ‘Lo Mejor de Huila’ (the best of Huila) competitions, and similarly in Nariño since 2013. We have needed to adapt our system over the … Continue reading

Ok people here we go! We start this Christmas counter round up with a message of congratulations to our friend José Antonio Barrantes Zuñiga (Toño) of Finca Telia – Herbazú. Toño has been declared a ‘Legend of Excellence’ by the Alliance of Coffee Excellence as reward for his decades of work in coffee farming and consistent production of award-winning coffees. … Continue reading

The super exciting news this month is that chocolate from Chocolarder will be on our counters from the 17th. This year, we have chosen two bars: the Ponta Figo, which uses cocoa beans from São Tomé, and the other is the Candied Orange Peel Browned Butter which is made with cocoa beans from Öko Caribe in the Dominican Republic. The Candied … Continue reading

It has been an exceptionally busy time for our green coffee team over the last three months with plenty going on here in London and at the farms in Central and South America. Starting in London, the summer months saw the last of the new crop shipments arriving from Central America and it’s all go on the tasting table checking … Continue reading