Coffee is part of our culture.
However, paying attention to the type of coffee drunk has never been such a common practice until today, that we are more attentive to quality and curious to find out more.
In the last decade, in fact, the already historic figure of the roaster has increasingly emerged, above all with the advent of
micro-roasteries, shops where quality coffee is at the centre.
The work of the roaster is meticulous, he works behind the scenes, tasting different types of coffee in order to select the best one, and then roast it: the roaster is at the same time the one who chooses, tastes and selects, constantly studying, and giving more voice to the skills techniques than words.
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Coffee culture in Italy, from Florian to specialty coffees - Lifestyle
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When we speak of
Specialty Coffee,
we never refer only to the final product, but to
an entire chain
made up of a multiplicity of different players, from coffee growers, to exporters and roasters, who make coffee better every day thanks to a more sustainable and equitable approach.
In Italy the phenomenon of micro roasting is growing like wildfire above all due to the ethical choice and values shared by this community supported by SCA Italy (https://www.scaitaly.coffee/), the Italian delegation of the Specialty Coffee Association whose mission lies not only in promoting quality coffee, but in spreading the culture and philosophy that lie behind each cup.
“There is a world made up of artisans and small roasters that must not only be preserved but enhanced, emphasizing less the big names and industries that often use unsustainable processes in the long coffee supply chain” says Davide Cobelli, coordinator of SCA Italy.
“ All changes and technological innovations should be combined with tradition to obtain a better product:
From Friuli Venezia Giulia to Puglia, here are the micro roasteries presented at the Roasters Village at Sigep 2023 where to find a good coffee
● Trieste, Friuli Venezia Giulia
The Bloom Specialty Coffee project was born in 2017 from the Bloom Coffee School (https://www.bloomcoffee. shop/), a place for sartorial coffee aimed at educating the palate in the world of specialty coffees.
The roasting offers single origins and blends identifiable by colour: green, a complex coffee, particularly fine, where the acidity is presented in its most multidimensional aspect, yellow, an aromatic coffee with a more intense and citrusy acidity and red, a balanced coffee in which the natural acidity of the coffee is supported by sweet notes and warm tones of cocoa and dried fruit.
● Bergamo, Lombardy
Maurizio Valli approached coffee from an early age, developing a great passion that led him in 2000 to the birth of the Bugan Coffe Lab project (https://bugancoffeelab.com/), a space that grouped 4 areas: artisan micro roasting, tasting room, coffee academy and coffee shop.
Only single-origin coffees and different extraction methods, from V60 to aeropress to cold brew especially in the summer season, i.e. cold-extracted coffee.
● Milan, Lombardy Ernani coffee (https://www.caffeernani.com/) is an artisan roasting company that has made dissemination its mission, combined with single-origin Medium Roasted coffee for each carefully selected and defect-free coffee .
"We love making you savor every aromatic nuance of coffee!"
- declares the Ernani team.
● Verona, Veneto Garage Coffee Bros (https://garagecoffeebros.com/) is a specialty coffee roastery opened in Verona in 2018 by the Cobelli brothers: Davide Cobelli is a veteran of the Italian specialty coffee scene, Italian roasting champion in 2020 The micro roastery's Specialty collections include very fine coffees, the result of a great study of the characteristics of the raw material.
● Florence, Tuscany The artisanal roasting La Tosteria of Florence (https://latosteria.it/) specializes in the production of Specialty Coffee, single origins and coffee blends;
the company has always followed values linked to the quality of the raw material and the maximum traceability of its coffees, establishing relationships of transparency with its customers.
● Montecchio (TR), Reggio Emilia Manfredini Coffee Lab (https://www.manfredinicoffeelab.com/) is the 4.0 micro roastery born in Montecchio in the province of Reggio Emilia: it processes fine specialty coffees with artisan care, with roasting profiles always unique in order to enhance the excellence of the single coffee.
● Gravina di Puglia (BA), Puglia The Pierre Cafè roasting (https://www.pierrecafe.com/) was born in the early 80s with the aim of doing things differently, focusing on quality: from the quality of the coffee raw to meticulous roasting profiles, passing through a careful barista education.
Its basic blends are composed of high quality raw coffees with which they create an incomparable bouquet of aromas.
● Verona, Veneto
Marco Pizzinato has been in the coffee world for 20 years and in 2021, after touring many roasteries abroad as well, he embarked on a new specialty coffee marketing project by opening PizziCoffee (https://www.pizzicoffee.it/).
His mission is to make specialty coffee known to as many people as possible in order to make it a product for everyone.
● Castelfidardo (AN), Marche
In Korean, when a story or a legend is told, a phrase is used that literally means When the tiger smoked: this is the name chosen by Antonio Tombolini who, by choosing to roast exclusively Specialty Coffee, wants to give the sense of a completely new story to start and tell for the world of coffee.
Hence the name of his roastery (https://thesmokingtiger.coffee/).
● Imperia, Liguria
An artisan roasting company always looking for the perfect cup: this is the project of Roberto Giuliani, owner of the Brazilian roasting company.
● Cortona (AR),
Toscana Vannelli Coffee (https://vannelli.coffee/it/) is a specialty coffee roastery born from the passion of Giacomo Vannelli, Italian Barista Champion 2014/15/19 and Italian Brewers Champion 2022 and Pietro Vannelli , Italian Latte Art Champion 2015. Their motto?
“We are what we toast”.