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The wonderful world of Rwandan Speciality Coffee

The wonderful world of Rwandan Speciality Coffee

Last May I had the amazing opportunity of being able to spend two blissful weeks submerged in the world of Rwandan speciality coffee when I travelled to Mbare to spend time with the Rwamatamu producers.  This was my second visit to Rwanda and it was fascinating to see how much the country had changed in the last decade since I had been here. Not least was the amazing food scene in Kigali - (tree tomato sorbet and nine course pan-African tasting menus anyone?) and, surprisingly in this nation of tea drinkers, a buoyant speciality coffee culture. Both Rubia Coffee Roasters and Question Coffee quickly become my two favourite Kigali hangouts for their tasty roasted beans, fresh juices and pretty outdoor seating. Rwanda is an astonishing country. Less than half the...

Fiona Grant on March 14, 2026
Coffee From Peru's Sacred Valley

Coffee From Peru's Sacred Valley

Here at Glen Lyon Coffee, Peru is one of our favourite coffee origins. In September, we made our second sourcing trip to the South American country, and this new Organic Salkantay is the result of that trip. Organic Coffee from Savage Mountain Although the ninth-largest exporter overall, Peru is the world’s largest exporter of organic-certified coffee: Across the country, organic coffee production takes place on 90,000 hectares. Certification is often handled by cooperatives, which have become integral to Peru’s coffee sector over the past few decades.  The Andean Cusco department in Peru’s south east is one of the country’s most important coffee-growing regions, and is where a lot of organic production takes place. This is the region we visited in September 2025, meeting with the organic-certified cooperative Huadquiña to build...

Fionn Pooler on March 04, 2026
Stories from origin: Guatemalan coffee co-operatives & private farms

Stories from origin: Guatemalan coffee co-operatives & private farms

A tale of two farms…. Santa Ana, outside of Guatemala City Coffee in Guatemala is often divided into two worlds. Small producers such as in Hue Hue who find voice and power through the co-operative model. I saw this in action first hand in Huehuetenango and have written this up in my last journal story on this origin trip. The other coffee production model in Guatemala is the private farms. Often these are large, farms are deeply rooted in the post colonial period, following Guatemalan independence from Spanish rule in 1821, when families or big businesses such as the United Fruit Company concentrated land into large land holdings. It is common for single families to have owned these farms for multiple generations. They also typically have more resources than small...

Jamie Grant on January 28, 2026
Stories from Origin: Exploring Guatemala's Huehuetenango Coffee Region

Stories from Origin: Exploring Guatemala's Huehuetenango Coffee Region

Huehuetenango As we sped along the runway of the private airfield outside of Guatemala City I was gripped by a frisson of excitement. It felt like this point of departure in a light aircraft has been more than ten years in the making. Ever since I first visited Guatemala on an origin trip more than a decade ago, I have heard stories about the incredible coffee from the remote region of Huehuetenango (nicknamed Hue Hue) in the far North of the county. Renowned for mountainous beauty and coffee with altitude, I have dreamed of visiting the region ever since.  There is an incredible lightness of flying in a smaller propellor plane as you feel every bump and sway of turbulence. The barrier between you and the long drop to lego...

Jamie Grant on January 20, 2026
Stories from Origin: Guatemala Day One

Stories from Origin: Guatemala Day One

We were thrown into the deep end with a visit in our first day in Guatemala to the vast dry mill of the federation of co-operatives of small producers FEDECOCAGUA. The organisation is a country wide representative body for 26 different small cooperatives, helping to support more than 10,000 small producers. These co-operatives process and sell their coffee through FEDECOCAGUA which channels profits back into support for the producers such as financing, access to international markets and technical support from their team of agronomists. This model has been very successful with producers finding strength in numbers in recent years that has challenged the power of traditional, family owned private farms. So much so that they are currently locked in a bitter legal dispute over money laundering. Guatemalan importer Javier Gutierrez...

Jamie Grant on January 14, 2026
A Volcanic Coffee from El Salvador to Start the New Year

A Volcanic Coffee from El Salvador to Start the New Year

Start the new year off right with our latest single origin, El Cipres, a fruity natural-processed coffee from the volcanic slopes of El Salvador. The Ups and Downs of El Salvador Coffee Production El Salvador may be Central America’s smallest country, but this densely populated coffee powerhouse has punched above its weight for centuries. The country is blessed with ideal coffee-growing conditions—some 20 volcanoes contribute fertile soil, while towering peaks offer a diversity of microclimates. Starting in the 19th century, coffee production became a vital source of income, and by the 1920s accounted for 90% of all El Salvadoran exports. Despite its size, by the 1970s the country was the world’s fourth-largest coffee producer. Much of this growth was driven by, and benefited, a small group of rich landowners who...

Fionn Pooler on January 06, 2026
A Dynastic Coffee from Guatemala

A Dynastic Coffee from Guatemala

You can’t beat a lovely, clean and sweet coffee from Guatemala, and our newest single origin from Finca Villaure is no exception. Enjoy this delicious offering from Aurelio Villatoro, a member of the famous Villatoro coffee-growing family in the Huehuetenango region. A Coffee Farm in a Unique Microclimate Guatemala is a hugely diverse coffee-producing country, made up of eight distinct regions as designated by the country’s coffee growers’ association, Anacafé. Each region has its own unique topography and climate, and one of the most renowned is Huehuetenango, situated in the west on the border with Mexico. Huehuetenango is known as the highest and driest of the eight producing regions, containing as it does the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, the tallest non-volcanic mountain range in the whole of Central America. Many of...

Fionn Pooler on December 04, 2025
Direct Trade From a Carbon Neutral Coffee Farm

Direct Trade From a Carbon Neutral Coffee Farm

Diego Robelo is a renowned producer whose family have co-owned Aquiares Estate in Costa Rica since the 1970s. We’ve been working with Diego off and on since 2017, and we’re delighted to once again be showcasing one of his coffees, the delicious Aquiares Natural. More Than a Coffee Farm Sitting high on the fertile slopes of the active Turrialba volcano in central Costa Rica, Aquiares has been growing coffee since the 1890s. Diego’s father Alfonso bought the estate in 1971 alongside two other families, and took over management in 1992 with the aim of revitalising a struggling farm. Over the decades the farm has grown to become something akin to a small town, with Diego now the general manager. At more than 800 hectares, Aquiares is very large by Costa...

Fionn Pooler on November 05, 2025
Coffee Trip to Peru’s Sacred Valley

Coffee Trip to Peru’s Sacred Valley

In September 2025 we made our second origin trip to Peru to source beans from the Huadquina Cooperative in the remote town of Santa Teresa in the Sacred Valley. The valley winds for around 60km from the ancient Incan city of Cusco into the Andean highlands. It follows the spectacular Urubamba river and is surrounded by jagged peaks that include the fearsome, snow topped mountain Salkantay (6,271m). The valley is still deemed sacred by many as it was once at the heart of the Incan kingdom and is a relatively short distance from Machu Picchu. The Huadquina Co-operative has a dry mill on the edge of Santa Teresa where we cupped samples from this most recent harvest. The co-operative works with over 300 producers and astonishingly most of them are...

Jamie Grant on October 21, 2025
Sustainability, Quality, and Integrity from Zambia's Mount Sunzu

Sustainability, Quality, and Integrity from Zambia's Mount Sunzu

An important part of Glen Lyon’s coffee philosophy is buying from the same farmers and the same countries each year. However, every so often, we are given the opportunity to try a completely new origin, and when that happens we just have to share it with our customers. Welcome, then, to this wonderful coffee from Mount Sunzu in Zambia sourced through our friends at Omwani Coffee. A Short History of Coffee in Zambia Coffee production in Zambia began much later than its neighbours like Tanzania, Malawi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Missionaries introduced coffee to the British-controlled country (then known as Northern Rhodesia) in the 1950s,with the goal to diversify exports away from a sole focus on copper. The British established large plantations, with few smallholder farmers involved.  However,...

Fionn Pooler on October 03, 2025
Blackcurrants in Your Cup With the New Kenya Kiandu AB

Blackcurrants in Your Cup With the New Kenya Kiandu AB

There’s something special about a really good Kenyan coffee. We always notice that delicious blackcurrant note, almost like drinking Ribena. The latest arrivals are no different, so get ready for our latest coffee release, the rich and juicy Kenya Kiandu. Kenya’s Cooperatives and Coffee Factories Despite the plant being native to neighbouring Ethiopia, coffee didn’t arrive in Kenya until the 19th century. There are two competing theories as to when and how. One theory says that French missionaries known as 'Holy Ghost Fathers' brought 100 seeds from Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean in 1893. Another suggests that the Scottish horticulturalist and missionary John Paterson introduced seeds obtained from the British East India Company, also in 1893. Whereas in many countries farmers harvest coffee and process it on their own...

Fionn Pooler on September 04, 2025
Fruity, Nutty, or Floral? How to Choose Coffee by Flavour Profile

Fruity, Nutty, or Floral? How to Choose Coffee by Flavour Profile

It can be tricky to choose a coffee. You might know what you like, what you enjoy drinking every morning, or you might have no idea and just love them all. That’s where we come in. To give you an idea of what the final cup will taste like, most coffee companies put a few tasting notes on the bag. At Glen Lyon Coffee, these notes are chosen by our team with the goal of offering an impression of the flavours and aromas that we hope you will experience while brewing and drinking our coffee. Tasting notes can be quite abstract, or they can include specific flavours. They are, of course, merely descriptive—we don’t add any flavourings to our coffee—but using them alongside this handy guide should give you an...

Fionn Pooler on September 01, 2025

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