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Argyll's Secret Roast

Argyll's Secret Roast

£10.50

Argyll's Secret Roast

£10.50
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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 Isaiso AA

Farm:

Up to 421 smallholdings, averaging 1-2 hectares

Processing:

Washed

Owner:

Isaiso Agricultural Marketing Cooperative Society

Region:

Songwe

Varietal(s):

Kent, Bourbon, Compact

Altitude:

1,350 to 1,490 metres above sea level

Town:

Mbozi District

Rich in agricultural production, the Songwe region, bordering Zambia and Malawi in southern Tanzania, is home to the 175 villages and 515,000 people of the Mbozi District. Here, the Isaiso Agricultural Marketing Cooperative Society (AMCOS) was created in 2008, growing to 421 members today. Harvest begins with producers selectively handpicking their cherries at peak ripeness. Members will process their cherries at home. Hand pulpers are utilized to peel away the external fruit immediately after harvest. The beans are then fermented in tanks of water for a maximum of 72 hours to breakdown the remaining mucilage. The clean beans are then sun dried on raised beds for 9-10 days. Once dried, the beans are delivered to the Isaiso mill to be hulled, graded and rested prior to export. In 2023, coffee from this AMCOS placed first in the Tanzania Fine Coffees Competition.

Colombia Edulis Huila Wet Mill Project

Farm:

30 to 50 smallholdings

Processing:

Washed

Owner:

30 to 50 smallholder farmers

Region:

Huila

Varietal(s):

Caturra, Colombia, Castillo

Altitude:

1,320 to 1,950 metres above sea level

Town:

Various

This specific lot comes from 30 to 50 smallholder producers throughout Huila and processed at the newest Aguablanca wet mill. Opened in 2024, the Aguablanca mill is state of the art, and the most advanced wet mill facility in Colombia. The mill was built and is managed by our exporting partner, Cóndor. Thanks to the opening of this mill, there has been a direct impact on 600 producing families in the area of the South of Huila. Located in the heart of the Colombian Andes, in the Valle de Laboyos, epicentre of the coffee production in Colombia, the Aguablanca mill is an efficient and perfectly located mill for many producers. Producers can deliver their cherries to the mill the afternoon after picking and not have to worry about processing. The average farm size in this area ranges between 1 and 5 hectares. Roughly 47% of the producers are aged 41 to 50 years old, with 89% raising their own families, cultivating the bright future of coffee in Huila. After the producers deliver their cherries to the mill, they are sorted to remove any under or overripe cherries. Next, they are fermented for 8 to 12 hours in tanks. Afterwards, the cherries are pulped with a new precise machine to remove the external fruit and fermented once more for 40 hours.
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 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.
About Colombia
Colombia is the third largest coffee-producing country in the world. Mountainous and fertile, it has multiple tropical microclimates which result in incredibly diverse, quality coffee harvested from October to February, with a second, fly crop several months later, varying by region and microclimate.

There is a huge variety of coffee produced in Colombia, but the country’s coffee is generally associated with tasting notes of chocolate, nut and a moderate, citrusy acidity.

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