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About This Coffee

A blend bringing together Arabica coffee from the biodiverse Yayu Wild Forest in Ethiopia with Excelsa coffee from Uganda, both located within Africa's Great Rift Valley. This coffee is grown within forest or forest-like environments without irrigation and using natural nutrient recycling rather than synthetic inputs. The Excelsa species thrives in warmer, drier conditions and is a focus of research at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The coffee features a rich and comforting profile with notes of dark chocolate, berries and warming spices. Medium roast. Created in collaboration with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Origin

Yayu Wild Forest (Ethiopia)

Uganda

Flavor Notes

Berry, Spices, Dark Chocolate

Roast Level

Medium

Processing

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Typology

Arabica, Excelsa

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Union Hand-Roasted Coffee

Union Hand-Roasted Coffee was founded in 2001 by Jeremy Torz and Steven Macatonia, who had previously merged their first venture with Seattle Coffee Company in 1997 before it was acquired by Starbucks. The pair started again from scratch, installing their first Probat roaster in their East London roastery in October 2001 after shipping it over from Memphis. Today the team of over 75 employees roasts on both that original Probat and a Loring, hand roasting all coffee to order in small batches with every batch cupped post roast for quality approval. Their Union Direct Trade programme sources from over 40 producer partners worldwide, impacting more than 13,000 family farms. The company is a certified B Corporation and has won the Queen's Award twice, in 2017 and 2022, for its supply chain initiative. Union's coffee is stocked in Sainsbury's, Waitrose, Tesco, and other major UK supermarkets.

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