From the Field: Introducing Antioquia’s Best Cup Winner, La Falda del Centro

On June 3rd, 2016, Norbiton was again visited by prominent speciality coffee roasters from around the UK. Mercanta happily welcomed friends from Clifton Coffee Roasters, Crediton Coffee, Curve Coffee Roasters, Grumpy Mule, Hot Numbers, Modern Standard, Red Roaster & Taylor St. Coffee to cup with us three tables of excellent coffees from origins as diverse

In March of 2016, the Financial Times featured an excellent piece on Stephen Hurst, Founder and Managing Director of Mercanta, Ltd. highlighting his role as a pioneer of specialty coffee in Europe. You can read the post below by clicking on pop-out icon on the embedded PDF below.

We are delighted to announce that beginning April 2016, Mercanta has newly introduced Uganda to our list of specialty coffee offerings.

On Friday, 29th of April, Mercanta hosted our second annual Costa Rican Cupping day.

In honour of our 20th anniversary, the African Fine Coffee Association has chosen to highlight Mercanta's ongoing commitment to quality coffee in Africa by publishing a profile piece on our approach to sourcing and client care. The piece will appear in AFCA's April-June 2016 Newsletter.

On March 15, 2016, Mercanta turns 20 years old! All year we will be celebrating with friends from around the globe - old and new!

Mercanta kicked off the beginning of 2016 by celebrating with our friends and partners in Colombia! For the month of January, Stephen Hurst and many other Mercanta staff welcomed friends from around the world to Antioquia and Huila to better know this beautiful country that is home to some of the world's finest coffees.

Mercanta is now proud to offer – for the very first time – three unique coffees from Papua New Guinea.

We kicked off the week in style with the Taste of the Harvest Event, held on the evening of November 25th, 2014. Hosted by Mercanta, the Embassy of Brazil, the Brazilian Specialty Coffee Association, and The Specialty Coffee Association of Europe (SCAE), Taste of the Harvest was held the day before the Brazil Early Harvest Cup of Excellence auction and highlighted the top 10 coffees of 2014’s competition.

Welcome to Brazil June / July 2014 OK, the World Cup was on but I did not really notice that too much. Somehow I found myself at England versus Uruguay and England versus Costa Rica matches by coincidence. Joking aside, Brazil as a country did an excellent job with this World Cup despite the reservations,

Day One began with an early start at IH Cafe, a government enterprise whose roles include; the promotion of specialty coffee in Honduras, educating producers and marketing Honduran Specialty coffee internationally. Our host and guide for the week, Rony, met Raul and I bright and early at the IH cafe laboratory in San Pedro Sula,

Arriving on the last flight Thursday the week before the international jury, I awoke to find myself sample roasting late harvest offer samples in our lab, before jet lag had time to set in we were off to Antigua visiting both long term partners and new that we work with in the area, Puerta Verde,

We were very happy this year to be an attending member of the Annual General meeting of the Norwegian Coffee Association. We were very happy this year to be an attending member of the Annual General meeting of the Norwegian Coffee Association. It is always a pleasure to share time, and on this occasion the

We’ve just received the photos of our new sign and couldn’t wait to share them with you!  It seems only five minutes ago that seasoned coffee hunter Grant Rattray packed his bags and said goodbye to the wind and the rain, heading off with a suitcase packed with cupping spoons and samples in search of

Well ladies and gentlemen, after much excitement at Mercanta HQ, the coffee from our newest origin, East Timor, has finally arrived. Lying almost equidistant between Indonesia and Australia, and cradled by the deep waters of the Banda and Timor seas, the country shares an island with Timor; a separate, and culturally distinct nation. The island

The opportunity to visit Ethiopia is for any avid coffee student, wondrous! And for Mercanta such an endeavour was no different. Known as the birth place of coffee Ethiopia is somewhat of a Mecca for many in specialty coffee and the experience of visiting has left me further amazed and enthralled with the complexities of its coffees

Germany is a country associated with many things, coffee not usually being one of them. However, with an average per capita consumption of around 5.6 kg, the Germans do like their beans. Coffee here is like tea in the UK and indeed the tradition of Kaffee und Kuchen (coffee and cake), is an almost direct

Coffeehunter Joanne Berry journeys to the Blackburn Estate in northern Tanzania in search of the country’s finest coffee… In a country the size of Tanzania, ‘near’ means a six hour drive away; a very bumpy and dusty drive which slowly gave way to a beauty I had not been expecting, and which left me glued

“We have drawn a line in the sand which not many have dared to do. All our business is done on a fixed price, above the cost of production.” For the everyday high street coffee trader, the matter of coffee pricings is a minefield… indeed, probably something to stay well away from. And yet, nobody