With this secret blend locked away in Lapland for eleven months of the year, you'll really want to make the most of it upon its return. Treat yourself and the family this Christmas to a luxurious, comforting mug of our Santa's Blend, which has been carefully and lovingly created to capture the festive magic of Christmas. With its warm fruitiness and hints of spice, this smooth, rich, medium strength coffee will warm anyone up on those frosty December mornings, and will be right at home with the rest of our suitably festive, Winter favourites, such as Mocha Java, Cinnamon, and Irish Cream. This indulgent blend will work beautifully from the cafetiere and as your favourite filter coffees, including lattes and cappuccinos. In terms of strength and acidity levels, you might also like to consider Peru Coffee.

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Half of the caffeine, all of the flavour! Our 50/50 Decaf Colombian is a lovely blend of Colombian coffee and Swiss Water Decaffeinated coffee, giving you a mellow, lighter caffeine hit with all of the delicious, rich flavours. Swiss Water decaffeination is a clever, 100% natural process that removes caffeine from coffee beans, without the use of any chemicals, whilst keeping in all of the delicious flavours and aromas. You can find out more about this process here. This blend is ideal if you are looking to reduce your caffeine intake or are looking for a more mellow caffeine hit

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The city of Mysore, located at the base of the Chamundi Hills in India, was first introduced to the world of coffee by the revered 17th century scholar, Baba Budan, who upon return from a pilgrimage to Mecca brought with him seven seeds from the port of Mocha, in Yemen, before planting them in Mysore's temperate mountains. The seeds flourished, and we have Baba Budan to thank today for the smooth and mild Mysore coffee. The sweet and delicate flavours of Mysore combine wonderfully with a medium acidity, which allows this bean, perhaps unsurprisingly, to blend perfectly with mocha coffee. The full-bodied Mysore is just the thing for a spot of indulgence at any time of the day, and all it takes is a few minutes in the cafetiere to be enjoying a wonderful, all-round great tasting brew.

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Our Kenya Blue Mountain is grown from seeds originally from Jamaica, which produce a coffee that has the natural sweetness of Blue Mountain Jamaica, but has also taken on the rich aromatic flavours and intensity that is typical of Kenyan coffee. Kenya's acidic soils provide excellent conditions for the growth of quality coffee, especially the renowned arabica bean, which is known to take on fantastic cocoa notes in Kenyan coffees. Full bodied, with a good acidity, hints of nut and citrus and a lovely caramel aftertaste, Kenya Blue Mountain is perfect in strong filter coffees or brews straight from the cafetiere. Why not browse our full range of African coffee to find your ideal variety? Be sure to check out our full range of Kenya coffee, along with our wider African coffee collection. Read more about this incredible coffee in our article - From Jamaica to Kenya, the Wonderful Blue Mountain Bean.

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A full bodied, soft and rich coffee that reveals a lovely fruity aroma when brewed, and a slight, satisfying acidity. Enjoy this as a refreshing espresso, or as a luxurious filter coffee such as a smooth latte or creamy cappuccino. In terms of strength and acidity levels, you might also like to consider Rwanda Coffee. Malawi is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa, bordered by other popular coffee-producing countries, Zambia and Tanzania. Coffee was first introduced to Malawi in the 1880s and has gradually grown to become one of the country’s largest exports.

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This strong coffee is full of character and perfect for those who enjoy powerful, dark roasts that pack a punch. Our Continental is the darkest roasted coffee we offer and, while perhaps not for the faint hearted, offers a divine combination of heady aromas and rich, oily, well-balanced flavours. Given the strength of this wonderful coffee, we would recommend it mainly for intense espressos, although it can also be used to make rich filter coffees that will carry a very mild acidity and plenty of kick. Our Continental is roasted on order and vacuum sealed straight after, ensuring that the coffee retains all its freshness, aroma and flavour.

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Uganda Light Continental Roast is a great choice for those who like a robust coffee. Made from 100% Robusta coffee beans, its strong toasted flavour and deep smokiness make it a bold and flavourful brew. It has an acidity level of 4, strength level of 9, and bears a slight oiliness from its roast colour. Robusta coffees contain almost twice the caffeine of Arabica coffees, so are good to drink when you need a burst of energy. They are also ideal for creating blends with other origin coffees. Uganda Light Continental Roast is best suited for espresso brewing methods.

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This blend of Indonesian Java and Brazilian Santos creates a wonderfully strong coffee that's full of flavour, but without any bitterness. Java, or Kopi Jawa as Indonesians refer to it, is typically a strong, slightly sweet coffee, and it works wonders here with the light body and low acidity of Santos. The balance of flavours creates an indulgent blend that's best enjoyed as an espresso, but can also be used in a cafetiere or as a base for your favourite filter coffees.

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This very versatile coffee reveals a full body and low acidity, with lovely sweet notes of milk chocolate, cherry, apple raisins and nuts. Brazil Fazenda Paraiso is sourced from a farm located in the traditional coffee-growing district of Cabo Verde, where an ideal climate, low humidity and favourable temperatures create perfect growing conditions. Harvested between May and August, these coffee cherries are picked and taken to drying patios to be sorted, dried and processed under the sun.

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A wonderfully smooth and well-rounded coffee, Papua New Guinea Elimbari reveals delicious flavours of chocolate and sweet caramel, with slight citrusy notes of grapefruit and green apple. The Arusha coffee bean is a particulalry interesting varietal, thought to be from the Typica lineage that can be found in Papua New Guinea and Tanzania. Once picked the coffee is pulped, before being dry fermented for 24 hours in wooden boxes and then being washed and dried. Papua New Guinea Elimbari is sourced from the district of Chuave, within the New Guinea Highlands, which are actually a chain of mountain ranges. This chain includes the Bismarck range, with Mount Wilhelm as its highest peak, where coffee growing slopes produce the cherry for Elimbari coffee.

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An intense coffee with full aroma and sharp, vibrant acidity, our Costa Rica Azalea is a truly unique coffee suitable for all brewing methods. The Azalea is a flower of peculiar yet exquisite aroma, one of nature's true beauties. The flower like our coffee is a symbol of the unique splendours that made Costa Rica's Central Valley legendary. Azalea is produced on farms that transcend this stunning valley of Costa Rica. The strong influence of volcanic soil in the Central Valley combined with the dry, Pacific climate and two very distinct seasons during the course of the year allow for the perfect development of coffee cherries in this region. Want to learn more about Cost Rican coffee? Read our article - Don’t Worry, Be Happy, with a Costa Rican Coffee. Be sure to browse our Costa Rica coffee collection and find your ideal variety today.

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With an intense, spicy taste and a wonderfully full body, this Sumatran-based blend is ideal for espressos, packing a strong punch that's not often encountered in blends, yet retaining a complexity of flavours that's not always easy to find in stronger coffees. The big, powerful flavours of Director's linger superbly on the tongue, but aren't so oppressive that you can't enjoy this blend filtered or prepared with a cafetiere. Our Director's blend is especially good for those who enjoy a bit more strength in their brew, and is roasted upon order to guarantee a fresh, aromatic coffee that's sure to become a favourite.

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Our Dark Colombian is a slightly stronger coffee than our Colombian Medium Roast, which makes it more versatile as it is suitable for cafetiere use, filter coffees and intense espressos. Again using Medellin Excelso, from Colombia's Cordillera Central in the Andes, this excellent coffee really does display some of the finer qualities of the renowned Colombian coffee bean: a rich aroma, luxurious depth and sweet flavours of fruit and chocolate. These Colombian beans benefit from being grown in an area that is known as the 'tierra templada', the Colombian term for the climatic zone located between 900 and 1,980 meters that provides ideal growing conditions. The conditions in the tierra templada, or 'temperate land' result in a robust bean that gives a full-bodied coffee and an intense espresso, topped off with a hint of sharp acidity. In terms of strength and acidity levels, you might like to consider Peru Coffee. Based on the characteristics of this variety, you might also like to try guatemala elephant coffee beans.

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Our very own Lungo Continental blend is smooth and strong, with subtle Mocha hints that work a treat in milky filter coffees, yet also bring a delightful and unique taste to espressos. This dash of Mocha is wonderfully balanced with a good helping of our dark roasted Continental coffee, which brings a very mild acidity and some good power, and is blended to a secret ratio that has taken us a few years to get just right. This delicious blend will leave you replenished, full of energy and ready to get on with your day.

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Our premier blend of expertly roasted coffees from the very finest plantations in Central and South America, mixed with complex tones from African and Indian speciality beans for a deep, rich and full-bodied coffee. A slight hint of acidity is balanced beautifully with a mellow flavour in what we consider to be one of our greatest ever blends. Perfectly suitable for an exquisite espresso, Caffè Marcos forms the ideal base for all manner of coffee drinks. With a strength level of 8/10, flavour and aroma of 7/10, along with that low acidity characteristic, Caffè Marcos is sure to become your new favourite espresso coffee.

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Monsoon Malabar, a wonderful variety from our Asian coffee range, is picked in the Malabar region of India, one of the wettest regions of southern India, undergoes an especially unique process to bring out the beans' fullest flavours. Straight after being harvested the Malabar beans are transported to open warehouses along the Malabar Coast, where they will be exposed to the harsh, moist winds of the area's monsoons for around three to four months. While they are stored in these open warehouses, the beans retain moisture from the monsoons and swell in size, losing much of their acidity in the process, resulting in a heavy bodied coffee that displays a wonderfully mellow flavour, with aromas of chocolate and spice. This strong coffee, unique to the coastal regions of Karnataka and Kerala, makes an excellent espresso when dark roasted, but also blends incredibly well with other varieties. Want to learn more about Monsoon Malabar Coffee? Read our article - Monsoon Malabar Coffee - A Remarkable Indian Coffee. Browse through our entire range of Asian coffee.

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From north Yemen, on the Arabian Peninsula, comes one of the truly exotic coffees of the world - Yemeni Mattari, the famed Mocha coffee which has been acclaimed for generations for its distinctive chocolate aftertaste. Yemen produces some of the best coffee in the world, despite very difficult conditions, and it has been doing so for hundreds of years. Only 3% of Yemen's land is considered arable, and just under a quarter of that is dedicated to coffee production. As a cash crop, coffee is second only to qat, a popular mild stimulant whose leaves are chewed. Yemeni coffee is produced on approximately 99,000 small family holdings, which means the average plot of coffee is grown on just under three fourths of an acre. That acreage is often very steep, as most coffee is grown in the mountains on terraces carved out of the precipitous hillsides. Yields of Yemen coffee beans are low in comparison to other Asian coffee. The small size of the farms, scarcity of water, and poor cultivation techniques hamper production. Many of the coffee farms are cultivated by tenant farmers, and there is little motivation for investment in terracing, water conservation, and other improvements. Despite these obstacles, Yemen continues to produce outstanding coffee. Coffee from Yemen has been prized for centuries. It was once one of the top producers in the world, and its Mocha coffee, exported from the old Yemeni port of Mocha, is the original Mocha in Mocha Java, which originated when traders blended Middle Eastern coffee with the Dutch coffee from Southeast Asia. Yemeni coffee is scarce in contrast with other coffee producing nations; Yemen consumes almost three quarters of its production at home, and 55% of what it does export goes to its wealthy neighbour to the north, Saudi Arabia. We are pleased to be able to offer you a taste of this rare coffee from Yemen. Our Yemen Mattari has a superb flavour. It starts with a hint of dark chocolate in the aroma, which shows up again in the taste. The coffee is rich with medium acidity and just the right brightness, but there is something that tastes almost green or herbal that adds, perhaps, a taste of the steep mountain terraces it is grown on.

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A high acidity coffee with sharp citrus notes, featuring very good body and a balanced flavour. Colombia Musicas coffee is cultivated on the banks of the Rio Cauca by small farm owned by Dona Dita, who has been producing coffee for almost 30 years. Dona’s coffee has been enjoyed by the local population for years, and now we’re privileged to be able to share it with you. It is said that much of the quality of this supreme coffee variety is down to how Dona “tends to her coffee trees as if they are her children!” In terms of strength and acidity levels, you might also like to consider Rwanda Coffee.

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An extraordinary, complex blend of 100% Arabica beans from five different coffee-growing locations across the world, puts Arabica Supremo high on the list of the finest blends to be created. Deep, rich and smooth, with an exotic, spicy aroma, the recipe for this ingenious mix of high quality, expertly roasted beans is a well-kept secret, but once tried, you’ll be left in no doubt as to how amazing it tastes. Arabica Supremo is roasted dark, with a strength level of 8/10, and flavour and aroma level of 6/10, making it ideal for espresso and bean-to-cup use.

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This mild Kenyan coffee gets its AA+ rating based on the large sizes of the specially selected beans used: Kenyan coffee is graded by the screen size of the bean, with beans that are too large to pass through a sieve perforation measuring 18/64 of an inch designated as AA grade. Our excellent Kenyan coffee, grown in the fertile Nyeri region of Kenya, offers a strong, slightly tangy flavour that's great for filter coffees and for preparing in a cafetiere, and embodies all the characteristics of a truly great Kenyan coffee, including a full body and delicious flavours of cocoa. Want to learn more about Kenya AA coffee? Read our article - In a Class of Its Own - Kenya AA Coffee. Be sure to check out our full range of Kenya coffee, along with our wider African coffee collection.

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Our Ernesto coffee is a strong blend from South America, and we've added some powerful Ethiopian beans to make a perfect espresso combination. This blend takes its name from the renowned Italian coffee merchant, Ernesto Illy, whose passion for the finest espresso led to some of the greatest innovations in history of the industry. Under Illy's guidance extensive research was carried out into finding the perfect espresso, factoring in such minute measurements as the fineness of the grind and water temperature. Our Ernesto blend pays homage to the master and is similar in flavour and strength to his own signature blends.

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Our mild Caribbean Blend is sourced from some of the finest coffee growers in the Caribbean islands, where the hot climate, high mountainous regions and unique soils produce some of the most popular bean varieties available. The coffee producing regions of the Caribbean tend to lie in remote mountain areas, and have come to be a major part of many countries' trades and exportations throughout the world. Our blend displays all the finest flavours that Caribbean beans have to offer, carefully chosen to create a coffee that can be enjoyed all through the day and is ideal for the cafetiere and filtered drinks.

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If you're looking for a quality decaf coffee that doesn't sacrifice on strength and intense flavours, then our Dark Decaffeinated Colombian is for you. Ideal for deep, aromatic espressos, these beans offer the rich and luxurious flavour of chocolate and produce wonderfully full-bodied coffees that won't be keeping you up all night. Our Dark Decaffeinated Colombian is roasted on order, so it will arrive to you as fresh as possible, bursting with intoxicating aromas and packed full of flavour, so you can enjoy the finest decaffeinated espressos every day, as well as other favourites such as decaf lattes, cappuccinos and Americanos.

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Coffee first came to Nicaragua in the mid 1800s, where it quickly became one of the country's largest export products, with harvests reaching more than 11,000,000 pounds and around 76,000 acres of land dedicated to growing coffee by 1891. To this day, coffee is a prime trade product for Nicaragua, where areas such as Matagalpa and Jinotega have become renowned for producing exquisite coffees, particularly in the Isabelia and Dariense mountain ranges, where rich volcanic soils and the humid tropical forest climate promote excellent harvests. Our Nicaraguan is a mild coffee of medium strength, with a great taste that is ideal for all your favourite filter coffees at any time of day.

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