Blended Coffees

( With half the normal caffeine )

We have specifically blended this coffee to give a balanced blend using two thirds decaffeinated coffees to one third caffeinated.

A Blend of our Mexican Mountain Water Decaffeinated coffee and other medium/dark roast coffees.

A 100% arabica blend of Central and South American staples: Brazil, Colombia, Honduras and Costa Rica all feature. The light touch with roasting ensures that each gets a chance to shine and the resulting coffee is smooth and mild with plenty of bright notes.

Cupping Notes: Lemon zest; redcurrant; hint of apricot.

Based on our ever-popular Kenya Peaberry, this blend is slightly heavier liquoring and a touch stronger, but still retains the lovely bright acidity and spicy fruit flavours.

Cupping Notes: Citrus, spice, apple.

Our Mayfair Blend is an enduring favourite, its strength balanced with real mellowness. Based on our Costa Rica San Pablo, we also add some high (continental) roasted coffee to the blend to give it real depth. Particularly good when brewed by filter or cafetiere.

Cupping Notes: Blueberry, caramel, dark chocolate, cherry.

Espresso Roast

Processed in the innovative Descamex plant in Mexico, this superb coffee is gently decaffeinated by washing with pure, glacier water from Mexico's highest mountain, Pico de Orizaba. The raw coffee beans are immersed and washed in tanks which removes almost all the caffeine, and are then slowly dried over a period of four hours. This chemical-free method produces a coffee that is richly flavoured, full-bodied and 99.9% caffeine free and is, in our opinion, the best decaffeinated coffee we’ve ever tried.

Cupping notes: dark chocoalte; toffee apple; hint of liquorice

Filter Roast

Processed in the innovative Descamex plant in Mexico, this superb coffee is gently decaffeinated by washing with pure, glacier water from Mexico's highest mountain, Pico de Orizaba. The raw coffee beans are immersed and washed in tanks which removes almost all the caffeine, and are then slowly dried over a period of four hours. This chemical-free method produces a coffee that is richly flavoured, full-bodied and 99.9% caffeine free and is, in our opinion, the best decaffeinated coffee we’ve ever tried.

Cupping notes: chocolate; pecan; caramel

One of our heritage blends, first developed in the 1960s, this dark roast pure Arabica espresso coffee blend is perhaps our most versatile coffee. Excellent for all brewing forms, it excels in espresso and filter where its rich, deep flavours shine.

Cupping Notes: milk chocolate; cherry; raisins; hazelnut.

A blend for those who aren't too keen on subtlety in the morning, our Morning Choice blend packs a punch and will certainly wake you up! A strong and full bodied dark roast, it has just enough acidity to balance the cup.

Cupping Notes: walnut; pipe tobacco; citrus.

Our Review Blend is a glorious mix of Brazilian, Ethiopian and Colombian arabicas. Fruity, with perfectly balanced acidity and sweetness, it's packed full of flavour and aroma.

Cupping Notes: lemon zest and lime acidity, walnut, stone-fruit sweetness, hint of dark cocoa.

Situated in the Western Province of Rwanda near Lake Kivu, Mushonyi Washing Station processes the harvests of around 1200 growers, whose farms and smallholdings are at altitudes of between 1600 and 1950 MASL. These small coffee farms (300 trees each on average) are often intercropped with bananas, cassava and eucalyptus.

This fully washed Red Bourbon is a prime example of modern Rwandan coffee. Clean, flavoursome and rich, its full of delicious sweet notes.

Cupping Notes: Cocoa, Macadamia, Biscuit.

This exceptional decaf is sourced from a blend of top-quality Colombian arabicas which are then naturally decaffeinated using Ethyl Acetate derived from molasses (hence "Sugarcane" decaf). Balanced, chocolatey and sweet, it's hard to believe this coffee is caffeine-free.

Cupping Notes: dark chocolate, nuts, red berry fruit.

Espresso recipe: 19g in, 38ml out, 23-25 seconds

Windmill Street Coffee - Spring Seasonal Blend

Our Spring 2024 Seasonal Blend is a mix of fully washed Red Bourbon coffee from the Burundi regions of Ngozi and Kayanza, and a fully washed Kenyan Duma ABC grown by smallholders on fertile, volcanic soils on the slopes of Mount Kenya and the Aberdare mountain range in the Central Province.

The Burundi element is a blend of high quality, IMPACT-certified Red Bourbon called Turaco (named for an iconic bird, native to Burundi) - the IMPACT certification ensures farmers are rewarded for their hard work and maintains long-term sustainability in the coffee supply chain. Most coffee grown in Burundi is farmed by smallholder families, and this is no exception. Many farms produce no more than 250-300 kilos of cherries per year, and these small harvests are handpicked by the families themselves before central processing.

Smallholder farmers also produce the Kenya element of the blend. This graded ABC sized blend is sourced from a variety of high-quality microlots - offering great quality AND real consistency. Grown in rich, volcanic soils at high altitude (1600-1850 masl) in the Central Province, the cherries are selectively handpicked and then processed in centralised wet mills, which are fed by high altitude streams for optimum quality.

Tasting notes: pineapple, apricot, milk chocolate

Espresso recipe: 20g in, 48ml out, 24 seconds