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Argyll's Secret Roast

Argyll's Secret Roast

£9.00

Argyll's Secret Roast

£9.00
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Zesty
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Our award-winning seasonal roast from the west coast, inspired by our location on Argyll’s Secret Coast. This blend is intended for filter or cafetière and is roasted for sweetness and acidity.

Product variants:

Argyll's Secret Roast
Argyll's Secret Roast - 6 months (Prepaid)
Argyll's Secret Roast - 12 months (Prepaid)
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Description

This seasonal roast follows the coffee calendar from northern to southern hemisphere, delivering a carefully crafted blend of single origin beans. This blend is designed for filter or cafetiere treatment and is roasted for sweetness and acidity. If you’re looking for beans for an espresso machine or stove top, try our Clyde Steamer espresso blend which is full bodied and teams perfectly with textured milk.

Please note that images are representative of packaging, and may not represent the current blend of Argyll’s Secret Roast, which changes seasonally. The current composition of this blend is provided in the information below.

Tanzania Maneno

Farm:

Maneno Farm

Processing:

Fully washed and sun dried on raised beds

Owner:

Maneno Namayala

Region:

Songwe

Varietal(s):

Compact, N39

Altitude:

1,562 metres above sea level

Town:

Mbozi

In the southern reaches of Tanzania, hugging the borders of Zambia and Malawi, is the region of Songwe, a rich coffee producing area of the country. It is here, in Songwe’s Mbozi District, where we find a huge array of coffee producers, including Maneno Namayala. Maneno took over ownership of the farm back in 2004, when his father gave him the land. He has now expanded the farm to encompass the 12.5 hectares, growing Kent and Compact varietals, intercropped with banana, maize, and beans. Maneno recently received 500 compact seedlings from the government, and he has already begun to plant more and expand his farm. Maneno has his own processing facilities, where he brings his cherries after the harvest to be sorted. He then pulps his coffee utilising a hand machine to remove the cherry flesh. The coffee beans are then left to ferment in a cement tank to initiate the breakdown of the remaining mucilage, before being dried in the open sun, on raised beds, until the ideal moisture content is reached.

Guatemala Hunchouen

Farm:

Various

Processing:

Mixed

Owner:

550 Smallholder farmers

Region:

Huehuetenango

Varietal(s):

Bourbon, Caturra, Pache

Altitude:

1,800 to 1,900 metres above sea level

Town:

Tajamuco

The Hunchouen collective of 550 smallholder farmers was established in 1970, in the Tajumuco region of Guatemala's northwestern highlands. Their name is taken from the Mayan howler monkey god, one of two wise and creative brothers who climbed a tree which grew so tall that they couldn't get down. As the tree continued to grow, and they struggled in its branches, the twins turned into a howler monkey and a spider monkey. Back on the ground, the Hunchouen collective is supported by El Colegio, a social project founded by our importer, Caribbean Goods, to provide the children of coffee farmers with literacy skills and instruction in basic English. By working collectively, the farmers are able to reach a wider market for their crop, than they would if trading alone. And it really would be a shame for anyone to miss out on this coffee. We're getting a luxurious, creamy body, with fruity notes of pineapple cube boiled sweets and lychee, with a sparkling, lemon sherbet finish.
Roaster's Notes Argyll's Secret Roast
This version of Secret Roast has all the sweetness you've come to expect, with a lovely citrus zing to lift your morning cup.
About Tanzania
Bounced back from catastrophic coffee wilt disease in the 1990s, Tanzania now produces up to 40,000 metric tonnes of coffee each year, of which about 95% is grown by smallholder farmers. Whilst 30% of this crop is still made up of Robusta, about 70% of Tanzania’s output is now Arabica, with most crops being Kent, Bourbon, and Typical varieties.

The main regions for Arabica farming are Kilimanjaro, Arusha, Ruvuma, Mbeya and Kigoma, and are known for producing coffee with bright acidity and fruity juiciness.
About Guatemala
Coffee took off in Guatemala in the 1850s, in the rush to find a new crop to replace the collapsing indigo trade. By 1880, it represented 90% of Guatemala’s exports, but wild growth resulted in the displacement of indigenous peoples, tipping the country into a civil war over issues related to land distribution, poverty, hunger and racism, which rumble on even now.

Today, the country ranks in the top 15 coffee producers, with Bourbon, Typical, Caturra and Catuai beans harvested between December and April.

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