Events

Get Excited For Guatemala!

We have just added 2024’s fresh crop Guatemalan offerings to our list! This selection offers a wide range of coffee lots, with distinct cup profiles and price points, from some of Guatemala’s most distinguished coffee-producing families and growing regions.

Meet Faysel Abdosh Yonis

Testi Specialty Coffee have supplied us with delicious and distinct lots from their washing stations and processing sites, located across the country’s many growing regions. We adore working with Testi, who share a quality focused approach and commitment to supporting and resourcing the farming communities who grow the coffees we love so much.

Spotlight On: Chapada Diamantina

This week, we’re excited to release the video recording of our dear friends and Brazilian supply partners Silvio Leite and Fabiano Borré’s presentation in Melbourne — and to celebrate, we’re shining a spotlight on the exceptional offerings we source with Silvio and Fabiano’s help.

¡Hola Guate!

It’s been another exciting week at MCM HQ, with our first Guatemalan container for 2024 landing! The lots included in this shipment were grown on the outskirts of the historic town of Antigua Guatemala, on exceptionally fertile soils that lie at the foothills of three volcanoes.

It’s Time to Plan for Rwanda!

On June 10th, we are heading back to Rwanda! While in the country, Aislinn and Beau will be catching up with our dear friends at Buf Coffee and the Maraba and Dukunde Kawa Cooperatives, and spending meaningful time with the Rambagirakawa women’s group, officially handing over the funds raised through the Supporting Strong Women campaign.

The Big Kenyan Coffee Shake-Up: Part Two

The Kenyan government’s sweeping reforms to the country’s coffee sector in 2023 have disrupted the supply chain and changed the way many key players are operating. For specialty buyers like MCM, this meant heading back to the drawing board to strategise and adapt our purchasing within the new model.

The Big Kenyan Coffee Shake-Up: Part One

Many long-time buyers of Melbourne Coffee Merchants’ Kenyan offerings will have noticed our line up looking a little different this year. The reason? Months after announcing the coffee sector needed to change, the Kenyan government introduced sweeping reforms to the trade model in late 2023, requiring a shift in how we buy coffee and the lots we were able to secure from the 23/24 season.

Meet Wycliffe

Wycliffe Murwayi is the former Managing Director for Kahawa Bora Mill (KBM) and long-time friend of Melbourne Coffee Merchants. Since Kenya’s new reforms came into play in late 2023 (and the resulting closure of KBM), Wycliffe has repositioned himself as an independent contractor. He has generously shared his extraordinary knowledge of the Kenyan coffee sector and its players with MCM, connecting us to smallholder farmers and forward-thinking cooperatives across the central Kenyan highlands.