About the Collection
The Roots Collection shows respect for coffee from crop to cup, taking you back to the origin and sharing real life stories of the farmers and their communities. Rewarding those who nurture and grow our coffee is what defines this special collection and remains at the heart of what we do. Every coffee is 100% certified and helps to maintain the highest environmental and conservation standard, protecting the land where our coffee is grown. The beans in our Botanical Coffee are proudly grown by female farmers at the Cecanor Cooperative in Peru which is part of Café Femenino. We have also collaborated with Project Waterfall on this collection which means 10% of our profits from each bag sold will help bring clean water to coffee-farming communities worldwide.
The Roots Story
The Roots Collection is all about taking you to back the origin to explore the journey of coffee all the way from the farmers and their farms to the coffee we drink.
Every coffee originates with a farm, a farmer and farming community, who each have a story to tell. We want to share those stories through the Roots Collection giving insight into where our coffee is grown and giving back to those who nurture our coffee from the Roots. That all important link between the farmers, their produce and an exquisite coffee experience defines us, and our commitment to 100% certified coffee shows the value we put into maintaining the highest environmental and conservation standards. Therefore, when you drink the world-class coffee in this collection, you know you are helping our planet and improving the lives of coffee farmers around the world.
We are a proud supporter of Project Waterfall, a charity bringing clean water to coffee growing communities.
We donate 10% profit of every bag of Roots coffee we sell to support this wonderful cause and help bring an end to the water crisis in our lifetime.
*Image Credit: Project Waterfall
Suitable for
Espresso, Flat White, Cappuccino, Latte
This sweet and nutty coffee is a blend of beans grown by female coffee farmers at the Café Femenino Cecanor Cooperative in Peru and beans farmed at Permato Gayo, a cooperative in the region of Sumatra.
This blend supports the women of Café Femenino, a powerful movement which includes thousands of women farmers from nine countries across the world. Set up in 2004, 64 female coffee producers in Peru united to change the dynamic within coffee production. They developed a never-before-existing market for women-produced coffee to serve as an important vehicle for social change and the empowerment of women coffee farmers.
Suitable for
Espresso, Flat White, Cappuccino, Latte
Flourish is a delicious blend of beans Brazil and El Salvador. The Cerrado itself is the youngest coffee growing area in Brazil, covering approximately 23% of the country, the world’s 5th largest. Brazil is known for it’s great growing conditions such as the soil, climate and temperatures, although much of the coffee is grown below 1000 MASL. Therefore, while this may not be a high acidity coffee, it makes up for it with the comforting chocolate praline profiles you will note in this blend.
The second part of this blend includes beans from the El Molino Farm in El Salvador, one of the most important and significant estates that sits amongst the Apaneca Ilamatepec mountain range. The beans are selected from the most productive Bourbon and Pacas trees on the farm. They were chosen due to the homogeneity of the ripeness of the cherries, allowing for precise control and processing. A classic blend of flavours with notes of pine nut, raisin and milk chocolate adding a hint of grape like sweetness and a medium acidity.
Suitable for
Espresso, Flat White, Cappuccino, Latte
A delicious blend of milk chocolate and caramel notes derived from beans grown by certified small holder farmers in the Minas Gerais region and cool climates in Peru, resulting in a complex, yet smooth cup of coffee with very little acidity.
Suitable for
Espresso, Flat White, Cappuccino, Latte, V60, Filter, Chemex, French Press
A clean and classic El Salvador with raisin, underlying gentle cherry and fig, grown by farmers on the El Molino farm.
El Molinito coffee comes from El Molino farm, one of the most important and significant estates of the JASAL group that sits amongst the Apaneca Ilamatepec mountain range. This volcanic range runs through the Ahuachapán, Santa Ana, and Sonsonate departments in the West of El Salvador, and is where many of the Cup of Excellence producing farms in the country are located.
The beans are selected from the most productive Bourbon and Pacas trees on the farm. They are chosen due to the homogeneity of the ripeness of the cherries, allowing for precise control and processing. The importance of selective picking and attention to detail have very much become a hallmark of the culture and success of the farm, which was inherited by current owners Jose Antonio Jr and Antonio Salaverria in 2011.
Suitable for
Espresso, Flat White, Cappuccino, Latte
While women have always been crucial to coffee production in Peru, men traditionally held the economic power. In 2004, 464 female coffee producers in Peru united to change this dynamic and take a step toward empowerment. They decided to separate their coffee production from men to gain visibility and a voice inside their community. Working in partnership with OPTCO, they developed a never-before-existing market for women-produced coffee to serve as an important vehicle for social change and the empowerment of poor, marginalized women coffee farmers. Since then, the Café Femenino movement now includes thousands of women farmers from nine countries across the world.
Café Femenino requires participating cooperatives to give their women farmers control of revenues, land ownership, and acknowledgement for their exceptional coffee. With economic control in their hands, the women farmers of Cecanor have used Café Femenino funds to invest in community betterment projects including children’s libraries, schools, health and nutritional education, and programs that build self-esteem, human rights awareness, and literacy.
In Veracruz state, Mexico, stretching south from the Pico de Orizaba towards Cordoba is the coffee region that grew this decaf. Small scale farmers here own on average 20 hectares of land, too small to house both trees and wetmill facilities, but often on a scale that makes it more impractical to be hand processed on site too. As a consequence, cherry is sold to a larger wetmill designed to provide the solution to this problem, and focusses on delivery times from picking to fermentation tanks as well as ensuring quality of cherry at delivery point.
Cherries once sorted are washed, fermented and cleaned before being drum dried to optimal humidity and shipped to Canada for processing at Swiss Water’s facilities in Vancouver.
To prepare the beans for caffeine removal, they are cleaned and hydrated with pure, local water, the beans are then introduced to an internally developed Green Coffee Extract (GCE), and caffeine removal begins. Caffeine ventures out on its own, away from the coffee beans into the GCE until the ratio of soluble compounds in the GCE to the compounds in the coffee reach the point of equilibrium. Caffeine and GCE flow continuously through carbon filters until all the caffeine is trapped and separated from the GCE, which is refreshed so that it can be used again and again to remove more caffeine. The process is monitored for around 10 hours and caffeine levels checked as well as time, and gauge temperature controls, until the coffee is 99.9% caffeine free.