Quality
In the trade, speciality coffee has usually meant careful grading and a high score on a professional tasting form. A score is a buying tool. It is not, on its own, a reason you will like the cup.
Read the guideSpeciality coffee, from origin to arrival.
Good coffee has a journey.
A Colombian single origin, imported to the UK and roasted in London, with guides to the choices that shape a cup.
- Origin
- Colombia
- Journey
- Imported to the UK
- Roast
- London
- Bag
- 250 g
01 — The coffee
One origin, roasted in London.
A Colombian single-origin coffee, imported into the United Kingdom and roasted in London.
Colombia
Colombia
Imported into the UK and roasted in London. Farm, farmer, variety, process, roast date, and flavour notes are not stated, because they are not confirmed. The packaging artwork leaves those fields blank for the same reason.
Price to be confirmed
02 — A way of choosing
What makes speciality coffee different?
Four ideas worth knowing before a bag tries to impress you. None of them is a claim about a score we have not published.
Origin
Altitude, climate, variety, and farming shape what a coffee can taste like. A country name is a map reference. Coffees from the same country can taste very different.
Read the guideProcessing
After picking, the way the fruit is removed and the seed is dried changes clarity, sweetness, and body. The method is a clue. It still depends on how carefully the work was done.
Read the guideBrewing
Grind, water, ratio, and time decide how much of that work reaches the cup. Brewing is the last set of choices, and it is one you can learn at home.
Read the guide03 — Origins
Colombia is in the shop. The rest is a direction of travel.
A stamp is a graphic. It is not proof that a coffee from that country has been sourced, and it is not a certificate.
In the shop
Colombia
The coffee in the shop today. Colombia grows coffee across many regions and altitudes. This listing does not name a department, farm, or producer.
The current coffee is Colombian, imported into the UK and roasted in London. We are not naming a region or a farm, because those details are not confirmed.
United Kingdom, London is the base for that roast. It is not a coffee origin in the range.
See the coffeeOrigins we intend to explore
Not yet in the shop.
Not yet in the shop
Brazil
A producing country Terminal Coffee Co. may explore as the range grows. No Brazilian coffee is in the shop.
Not yet in the shop
Costa Rica
A producing country Terminal Coffee Co. may explore as the range grows. No Costa Rican coffee is in the shop.
Not yet in the shop
Ethiopia
A producing country Terminal Coffee Co. may explore as the range grows. No Ethiopian coffee is in the shop.
Not yet in the shop
Guatemala
A producing country Terminal Coffee Co. may explore as the range grows. No Guatemalan coffee is in the shop.
Not yet in the shop
Indonesia
A producing country Terminal Coffee Co. may explore as the range grows. No Indonesian coffee is in the shop.
Not yet in the shop
Kenya
A producing country Terminal Coffee Co. may explore as the range grows. No Kenyan coffee is in the shop.
Not yet in the shop
Peru
A producing country Terminal Coffee Co. may explore as the range grows. No Peruvian coffee is in the shop.
Not yet in the shop
Vietnam
A producing country Terminal Coffee Co. may explore as the range grows. No Vietnamese coffee is in the shop.
Not yet in the shop
Yemen
A producing country Terminal Coffee Co. may explore as the range grows. No Yemeni coffee is in the shop.
04 — Learn
Read the journey before you memorise a flavour note.
Short guides on speciality coffee, origin, and processing. They stay general wherever this coffee’s details are still blank.
Photograph still needed
Understanding Speciality Coffee
What Is Speciality Coffee?
A plain-language guide to a trade term: how coffee is graded, what a cupping score can and cannot tell you, and why the word is not a certificate.
Origin photograph still needed
Origin and Terroir
How Coffee Origin Influences Flavour
Altitude, climate, and variety shape what a coffee can taste like. A country name is a map reference, not a single flavour.
Process photograph still needed
Processing
How Processing Changes a Coffee’s Character
Washed, natural, and honey processes change clarity, body, and fruit character. The method’s name still depends on how carefully the coffee was dried.
05 — Later
Subscriptions are a future idea.
Regular discovery and replenishment, for when the shop can actually send coffee. Nothing here can be joined.
Not available
Replenishment
The same coffee, again, on a rhythm that would be chosen later. No rhythm is for sale.
Not available
Discovery
A different origin, once the range has more than one coffee to offer. That range does not exist yet.
06 — Wholesale
For cafés, offices, hospitality, and retailers.
A preview of a trade conversation. The form on that page does not send, and no trade prices or service promises are published.