Welcome to For the Love of Coffee! A blog exclusively for the staff of Vienna Coffee Company.
The holidays are officially upon us, and here at Vienna Coffee that means another edition of our much-anticipated annual holiday blend - Hearth & Home! This seasonal blend represents all the wonderful things people love about the season: holiday traditions, the warmth of family and friends, and the hopeful prayer of peace on earth and goodwill toward mankind.
Here at Vienna Coffee, we LOVE the holiday season and all the festive and delicious flavors it brings. In addition to some great seasonal drinks created by our incredibly talented Baristas, this year’s annual holiday blend highlights two exceptional Vienna coffees: Kenya, and Guatemala La Armonia Hermosa. Each coffee is unique in its flavor profile and when blended creates a coffee experience that is at once both familiar and surprising.
The foundation of the blend is considered one of the world’s finest coffees. Kenyan coffee is consistently prized for its sweetness, spice, balance & complexity. Featuring flavor notes that are often floral and fruity, Kenyan coffees have a richness and depth that is reminiscent of a fine red wine. In fact, Kenya is often referred to as “the wine of coffee”.
Approximately 200 members of the Muharate Farmer’s Cooperative contributed to this Kenyan lot. These small-holder coffee farms, averaging just a half-acre each, are located on the slopes of the picturesque Kikpkelion Hill in Kenya. Coffee here is hand-picked and then delivered to the only wet mill in the region. Once at the wet mill, it is sorted, pulped, and fermented using river water. It is then dried on raised beds.
With the strong flavor foundation of Kenya, we then add the distinctive Guatmela La Armonia Hermosa. Featuring tasting notes of cherry, chocolate, and cinnamon this beautiful coffee comes from our partnership with Deeper Roots and their direct relationship with Guatemalan farmers Julio Cuy Xar and family.
The drying fields in Santa Maria De Jesus, Guatemala.
Julio Cuy Xar and his son Melvin produce some of the finest Guatemalan coffee for Deeper Roots and Vienna Coffee.
We are blessed to have access to these beautiful coffees and I am grateful for the relationships we are so fortunate to have cultivated with the farmers and producers. Coffee is truly a global community of people who are passionate about family, community, and traditions - the very same things which make Hearth & Home our featured coffee for December.
Be sure to encourage our customers to try Hearth & Home the next time they order a brewed coffee, and maybe casually suggest that it would make a great gift for any coffee lovers on their list!
I wish every one of you a very happy and blessed Holiday Season!
Matt