MONTHLY SPECIAL - Brazil, Mió, Vinesu Overripe, Volcanic Fermentation
blackberry jam ~ watermelon ~ port
Every month, our resident Q Grader and third-generation Wogan, James, searches the world to find a coffee that is ‘weird and wonderful’, and truly excites. A micro-lot, a great back-story, an impressive cooperative, or a particularly unusual taste; once it's gone, it's gone.
We keep the prices of these extraordinary coffees down, so that you have the chance to try something that you might not be able to get your hands on otherwise.
The farm
Mió plant, harvest, process, export, import, store, and sell all their green beans to uk and European roasters. The farm estate in Monte Santo de Minas (900 to 1100masl) covers 1,976 hectares in between the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest biomes. Four hundred hectares of Arabica cultivars: Red and Yellow Catucaí; Mundo Novo; Red, Yellow and Pink Bourbon; Acaiá; Arara; Red and Pink Gesha.
The Process
This is a Volcanic Fermentation (72h; 70% overripe) process - incredibly unique and very exciting to be a part of.
Coffee cherries that have started to dry when still attached to the tree are overripe cherries. They are able to give great results under controlled fermentation processes. In the VF PROCESS, the cherries are fermented in small mounds covered for 72h using Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a starter yeast. The result is a profile with alcoholic notes, fruity acidity and juicy mouthfeel.
Why Wogan?
Ethical
We work closely with farms worldwide to make sure that coffee farmers are paid a fair price, through Fairtrade and our own Direct Trade certifications. Working hard with coffee farmers to improve their lives and the lives of their families.
Sustainable
We maintain long term relationships with our carefully selected coffee farms, to provide the stability they need to plan for the future. The added bonus? Coffee that improves with every single crop, as their farming practices and equipment improves.
LDPE4 Recyclable
Helping you to do your bit. Our bags are LDPE4 recyclable, meaning they can be recycled in supermarkets. Alternatively, you can check with your Local Authority to see if they will collect it for you. Green lights include mentions of; bread bags, frozen food bags, squeezable bottles, bubble wrap, and carrier bags.
Carbon Pledge
We've pledged to be carbon neutral by 2030, and we're already well on the way. Our warehouses are now powered by solar panels, with the extra juice fuelling our fleet of electric vehicles.
Sustainable and ethical
We've made it this generation's mission to put sustainability at the forefront. We’ve pledged to be Carbon Neutral by 2030 and are well on our way to getting there. LDPE4 recyclable bags, a Roastery powered entirely by solar energy, and a hell of a lot more.
our story
We, at Wogan Coffee, have been lovingly hand-roasting speciality, ethical, sustainable and traceable coffees since 1970. In our third generation, and a wholly independent family company, you can find us rooted in Bristol; the same city as when Mr Wogan established the business over fifty years ago. Laura and James, grandchildren of the bowler hatted gentleman, now have the ropes firmly in their grasp; James as our resident Q Grader in the Bristol Roastery Headquarters, and Laura in London.
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