Off to Plant a Glitter Tree Sample

While this coffee tastes awesome in every device, our favourites are an espresso machine, Aeropress & moka pot.

Head over to our brew guides for making coffee for more.

All of our coffees come to us from small farms and estates. This means that when a coffee has been harvested, processed and drunk, it has gone for good.

With our other coffees, we aim to swap coffee every 8-12 months. With this limited edition, this will change more frequently, most likely every 3-4 months.  The coffees available as limited editions will be interesting and diverse in flavour to each other and will not necessarily follow a pattern of flavour.

If you are looking to try new coffees every few months or so, then this could be for you.

Martha and Ana Albir grow this totally tropical coffee on an eight-hectare farm called Las Naranjas. The sisters are third-generation coffee farmers and come from a family with long-standing links to the Nueva Segovia area. In fact, their great-grandfather has owned land here since 1930. Martha and Ana continue to develop their coffee-growing techniques and invested in a greenhouse in 2020, which will allow them to grow more experimental lots in the future.

The sisters also operate a dry mill in the Nicaraguan municipality of Ocotal. The Cafetos de Segovia mill is handily located close to surrounding coffee farms, which enables them to process coffee grown by other farmers as well as their own. The mill can process some impressive quantities during the peak season and employs around 30 people. Every year, Cafetos de Segovia submits lots to the Cup of Excellence competition. Needless to say, it always ranks highly!

To determine the quality score of a coffee, a process known as cupping is used. Trained tasters known as Q graders will taste the coffee and score it dependant on a number of factors. A score of 80 points or higher is required to gain a speciality title. If it scores lower, it doesn’t make the grade. Fancy giving it a go? Read our guide about coffee cupping to learn more.

When we roast our coffees, we like to bring out and enhance their natural, amazing flavours. We don’t over roast any of our coffees, so we avoid any burnt or bitter tastes. The coffees that we roast are full of many natural flavours, it would be a shame to mask these or turn them into bitterness.

Some of our coffees will be very sweet and creamy, and others will be delicate and almost tea-like. We are thankful for the hard work and care that the coffee farmers put into growing these beans and want to do them proud when we roast their beans. We always aim to find a great selection of coffees and flavours that stand out from the rest.

Roast Style: Medium / Dark

Farm:  Las Naranjas

Varietal: Red Catuai

Process: Washed

Altitude: 1250 – 1500 metres above sea level

Country: Nicaragua

Certificate: Speciality

What does this all mean? Check out our Jargon Buster.

The coffees that we choose are ethically sourced from small farms or single estates around the world. We purchase the best coffee and pay much more than the going rate price to the farmers – so when you buy coffee from us, you are in turn, helping the farmers. In fact, we pay between 30 and 150% more than the ‘going rate’ for coffee beans. This supports the farmers in their crop, their development and also ensures they have sufficient living conditions for them and their families.

We also keep the chain between the farmers and us as short as possible. A shorter chain means more of the money will make it to the farmer and their workers to spend on next years crops. So, all in all, buying one bag of coffee can make such a difference – thank you!

There are lots of Disney remakes around at the minute, have you noticed? We think the classic Bambi film might be next – it is 80 years old, after all.

Cue the Roller Disco Donkey – he’s the modern-day Bambi on ice! He’s also the spitting image of us when we really, really need a morning coffee.