The 2021 Great Taste Awards results were announced this week and Dark Woods Coffee has won an astonishing thirteen awards in the Guild of Fine Food's annual speciality food and drink competition.

We’re delighted to launch our brand new range of beautifully presented, speciality coffee tins, filled with some of our favourite, award-winning coffees

We’re delighted to see the arrival of our fresh harvest Yemeni Mokha coffees this week, sourced from Abdulrahman Hayel Saeed and his team at Sabcomeed. LINK https://sabcomeed.com This year’s selection of micro-lots, both sun-dried naturals and anaerobic natural coffees, from across the key regions of Haraz, Anis, Bani Matar and Al-Qafr. We have collective lots from groups of producers around coffee producing villages, and single farmer micro-lots reflecting the varietals, terroir and craft of that producer. We’ll be presenting coffees from Fawaz Ali Wahab (and you can read a little more about him and his family below), Abdulkarim Salaah, Fouad Al Fadli, and the Masar and Shaia’an Collectives.

That's a bold claim; but, the outstanding work of the women farmers in Peru, supported by Cafe Femenino, means that it has become a reality. This International Women's Day, we recognise their amazing achievements over the last 16 years and highlight why we all need to keep supporting their efforts.

Returning for a second successive year we have a fruity and fun natural from Kenya's Kamundu Estate near Nairobi

"At first we didn't know what we were doing! We were just experimenting." - Oscar Chacon

Introducing our first new coffee of July 2020 - the juicy and complex Twin Rivers AA from Kenya

Dark Woods Coffee are proud to become one of the first coffee roasters to be BCorp Certified.

My lockdown has been hugely helped by regular care packages from my colleagues at the roastery and this new coffee from Fazenda Rio Verde in Brazil has been a particular highlight. I hope you're all well and safe out there and enjoying your home-brewing experiences!

It's out with our Colombian micro-lot, our Brazil from Serra E Leite and El Salvador Honey Pacamara and in with three African stunners from Rwanda and Burundi.

Introducing 5 new coffees for 2020. This latest list from our seasonal coffees programme features plenty of variety for single estate espresso fans and another wonderful single farmer lot from Yemen.

A Quick Guide to our 2020 Cafe Days