HOUSE ESPRESSO - BRAZIL

Our House Espresso comes from Sertaozinho Village in the Serra da Mantiqueria region of Brazil. This single varietal yellow bourbon lot is grown by around 100 mainly female smallholder farmers and is a UK exclusive in partnership with Ascarive, the fairtrade exporter, and our importer friends at DRWakefield. It’s full of those classic chocolate and nut notes we love in Brazilian coffees. Add in a gentle stone fruit acidity, lots of sweetness and body, and you’ve got yourself a dreamy espresso or milky boi. Gareth and George were lucky enough to visit Sertaozinho this summer, and see for themselves the incredible collective effort that goes into producing this coffee. Here's a little from their visit: 'An almost other worldly feeling took over as we walked under huge banana plants and their alien seed pods, with the village glinting below under the early evening moon. We learnt how often Paulinho’s (one of the figure heads of the village) highest quality coffees come from banana areas. The shade provided by the bananas means the coffee cherries mature slower, which equates to more sweetness and complexity. This seemed to be a theme of the week. Slower maturation when growing, slower drying when processing = more sweetness, more complexity. Really good coffee takes time.'

Milk chocolate, honey, marzipan, stone fruits