Espressolab

All journeys have a beginning, and the Espressolab coffee journey started in 2009, with the opening of Espressolab Microroasters, a boutique roasting company based in Cape Town, South Africa. It was one of the pioneers serving and showcasing specialty coffee on the African continent. The roasterys popularity was immediate and it was then in 2014 that it started to branch out and open multiple stores, including its first store outside South Africa in 2014, under careful curatorship. Today there are multiple stores worldwide, with a collection of micro-roasteries and retail stores spanning the globe. The brands passion for specialty coffee and good food, allows us to dream big, and our progressive aim is to increase our footprint to 100 retail stores by 2021 and eventually have an Espressolab on each of the majör continents. Our company ethos has always been that we are Responsible Together, with our actions affecting producers, suppliers and consumers along the coffee value chain. Coffee, which we consume with great pleasure every day, has a great responsibility as it impacts so many around the world through its consumption and production. According to the research, it is predicted that the production of coffee will decrease by 50% in 2050 due to climate change, wrongful agricultural policies, with young producers not seeing a future in coffee. Through our Responsible Together ethos, we have implemented a company ethos that will focus on the sustainability of coffee, and an industry as a whole. With our ability to work closely with our exporters and coffee producers, we have personally visited the many farms whereby our coffee is grown. Spanning the globe from Tanzania, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Guatemala, Colombia, Brazil and Kenya to name a few we seek to develop programs that support local producers. By selecting the most unique coffees and roasting them at our state of the art roasting facility, we apply our omni-roast approach to roasting, under the constant supervision and guidance of our Director of Coffee ...