The European coffee culture began in the mid-17th century.The first “beans” arrived via the Mediterranean and the Ottoman Empire, with the first European coffeehouse opening in Venice in 1645. Originally an expensive, exotic drink for the elite, coffeehouses quickly became “penny universities” and vital social hubs for intellectual exchange, spreading rapidly from Italy to England, France, […]
Harvesting is the moment when years of quiet growth finally reveal their purpose. After seasons of nurturing, pruning, and adapting to the landscape, the coffee plant offers its fruit — cherries that hold within them the flavours shaped by soil, altitude, climate, and time. This stage is not simply the act of picking; it is
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Growing — How the Coffee Plant Learns Its Landscape Once a coffee seedling 🌱 is planted into the earth, its true education begins. Growth is the stage where the young plant learns to read its surroundings — the soil beneath it, the air around it, the water it receives, and the height of the land
Sowing the Seeds of a Global Phenomenon Every coffee bean’s story begins long before it reaches a roaster, a grinder, or a cup. It begins quietly, in the soil, as a seed no larger than a fingernail. This first stage — sowing — is where the character of a coffee plant is shaped. Everything that
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🌍Terroir: The Coffee Plant’s First Sowing Influence Terroir is the sum of everything the plant experiences from the moment the seed touches soil for sowing: Coffee is incredibly sensitive to its environment. Even two farms a few kilometers apart can produce dramatically different flavour profiles because of subtle shifts in terroir. Key terroir traits: 🌡️
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The Coffee Belt: The Golden Latitudes What is the Coffee Belt? The Coffee Belt is a horizontal band around the center of the Earth where the environment is perfectly tuned for the Coffea plant. Outside of this band, it is either too cold, too dry, or the seasons are too extreme for the trees to
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From Cherry to Cup: The Story of Coffee Long before coffee becomes the dark, aromatic drink we know so well, it begins life quietly — growing far from cafés and kitchens, on hillsides and highlands scattered across the world’s coffee belt. Most people picture coffee beans as something earthy and brown, perhaps pulled from the
Thailand: The Highland Revolution Hidden within the mist-covered peaks of the Golden Triangle lies one of the coffee world’s most inspiring success stories, Thailand Coffee. For decades, the remote northern highlands of Thailand were synonymous with opium production, but today, those same slopes are blanketed in lush, high-altitude Arabica trees. Driven by the visionary ‘Royal
Tanzania: The Kilimanjaro Peaberry Tanzanian Coffee will take us back to East Africa, specifically to the slopes of the highest free-standing mountain in the world: Mount Kilimanjaro.Tanzania is a vital player in the Coffee World.The Coffee Bean grown in Tanzania introduces us to a specific biological curiosity: the Peaberry. In the coffee world, “TZPB” (Tanzanian
The Côte d’Ivoire(Ivory Coast): The Robusta Heartland The Côte d’Ivoire Coffee represents the “utility” of the coffee world—the beans that fuel the global instant coffee market and the traditional espresso bars of France and Italy. The Côte d’Ivoire Coffee Production at a Glance Country: Côte d’Ivoire(Ivory Coast) World Ranking 16 Annual Production 1.8 – 2.1
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