
Celebrate this holiday with our Holiday Blend. Sweet, creamy, bright with complex fruit notes. This blend will warm the hearts of those around you and is perfect for sharing with friends and family.
We created this blend from some of our favourite coffees. It's no easy task when you have something that is already great and you want to make something even better. We must ensure that every component will work well together.
Our blend is comprised of two coffee from Brazil Fazenda Cachoeira and Costa Rica Volcan Azul Red Honey
The Brazilian coffee comes from a very distinctive microclimate which allows the farmers to grow tropical variants of coffee. Fazenda Cachoeira da Grama is named after the waterfall found within its grounds and has been owned by the Carvalho Dias family since 1890. In 2016, management passed to the Bourbon Specialty Coffee Company, which also uses the farm as a research and development hub for coffee varieties, harvesting methods, processing, and drying techniques—maintaining a 100% focus on quality improvement.
Situated just 3 km from the Minas Gerais border, the farm lies in the mountainous Mogiana and Sul de Minas region. Coffee is cultivated at altitudes of 1,100–1,250 meters above sea level, where annual rainfall averages 1,800–2,000 mm and the mean temperature is 19 °C—conditions considered ideal for producing exceptional coffee.
At Fazenda Cachoeira da Grama, coffee is hand-picked and processed quickly to prevent any unwanted fermentation. Freshly harvested cherries go straight from the field to the wet mill, where ripe cherries are carefully selected and pulped. The pulped coffee is first dried on patios, then finished in mechanical driers to achieve optimal moisture content. Finally, the batches are stored in a humidity-controlled warehouse, protected from unwanted odours to preserve their quality.
The farm’s management places a strong emphasis on social and environmental sustainability. Initiatives include planting native species to maintain ecological balance, providing a school, a club, and a soccer field for workers, offering 47 houses for employees and their families, and treating wastewater to protect groundwater resources.
The coffee from Cachoeira da Grama is the product of meticulous attention at every stage—from seed selection to harvest and processing—reflecting the dedication and care that define the farm’s work.
The Colombia coffee in this blend is from Huila and is a part of a regional select program which was created to highlight unique flavours and designed to further reward farmers for the quality in beans that they produce. This allows us to pick the most premium coffees to deliver to you.
Costa Rica Volcan Azul Red Honey
A family-run coffee farm operated by Alejo Castro Kahle and his father Fernando Castro Jiménez and mother Vivian Kahle. Both sides of the family have worked in the coffee industry in Costa Rica since the 19th century, and they have run the Volcan Azul micro-mill together for 15 years. Here is more detail about their history and their farm, in the family's own words:
Producer History:"At the end of the 19th century, when coffee production was in its early beginnings in America, without knowing it, two pioneers and entrepreneurs, Alejo C. Jiménez in Costa Rica and Wilhelm Kahle in the south of Mexico, shared the same dream: “To produce the best coffee in the world” to satisfy the new demanding European gourmet market. More than a century has passed, and today the fourth and fifth generations of descendants of these visionary farmers still produce coffee within the same ideals of excellency and top quality that inspired their ancestors.
They produce one of the best pure coffees of the world with its Brand “F.C.J. Volcán Azul” on the slopes of the Poás Volcano in Costa Rica. Today, the production process starts with the planting of the coffee trees on highly fertile volcanic soil above 1500 meters above sea level (SHB). It continues with a meticulous process at the coffee mill and finally ends with the strict preparation of the export quality beans. Currently, the descendants of Don Alejo C. and Don Wilhelm want to further enhance the principles of quality inherited by our founders by adding the value of conservancy of natural resources, through the acquisition of extensions of natural rainforest for its protection and conservation. These facts, are small actions taken by one family to reduce air contamination and global warming." This is the contribution we want to make to mankind, this is the new awareness we want our future generations to inherit.For our family, the conservation of natural resources is of prime value, which is why we are committed to protecting vast extensions of tropical rainforest in the Costa Rica since the 80’s." Work as a team the two families have acquired over 1,500 hectares of rainforest for ecological preservation in areas where they grow their coffee as well as in the Osa Peninsula, a region in the South of Costa Rica known for holding 2.5% of the Earth’s Biodiversity.
We are proud to work with environmentally conscious family who is contributing to reducing the effects of global warming. This is the attitude towards the environment that we want to pass on to our children and future generations.
BREWING INSTRUCTIONS
Espresso: Start with the parameter below. Keep the dose, brew time, yield fixed. Use the grind setting to get the correct brew time. Fine tune with the temperature. Lighter roast lower temperature
Brew ratio: 18-21 grams of coffee with 300ml of water
Grind coffee in the middle setting of the grinder
Brew temperature: 190F to 205F
Brew time: 2 to 3 minutes
Dose: 18-19 grams espresso bean
Brew temperature: 190F to 205F
Brew time: 25-28 seconds (including pre-infusion)
Yield: 40-45g espresso out



