CAFE MICHEL - TERRA ETICA

Ground balanced blend - a round and balanced coffee with beatiful touches of aromas. This balanced blend combines the Arabicas of Majomut, Apodip, Norandino Union Proagro cooperatives from Mexico, Guatemala, Peru and Bolivia. Our partners are producer cooperatives sharing the same convictions of cooperative business, smallholder agriculture and agro-ecology. These cooperatives are actors of community development in marginalized areas. Togethet we upgrade their coffee terroir through tranparent fair trade and a direct long-lasting parnership.

Ground Peru coffee, mild and fruity. This Arabica offers the perfect balance between delicat acidity, a rather mild body and discrete citrus flavours. Oro Verde cooperative. Altitude of 1000-1500 metres. On the Amazonian slopes of the Andes mountain range, the 1200 families of the Oro Verde cooperative are both native Chankas and farmers of the Andes uplands looking for soil to be cultivated. With a fair price, Oro Verde initiated an agro-ecological system which reconstructs the forest eco-system. On their lots, the producers leave big trees to shadow the coffee trees. They contribute to the conservation of Amazon biodiversity.

Dark Chocolate 85% Madagascar, Grand CRu Sambirano. In the north of Madagascar, the Lazan'ny company Sambirano cooperative developed in 2001 out of a farmers movement of 300 small producers. They want to leverage their terroir and know-how in processing cocoa beans. Their collective success lies in exporting their cocoa beans themselves and avoiding the big local collectors. This rare an d typical cocoa of the Sambirano valley introduces subtile citrus aromas without any bitter notes.

Instant powdered chocolate from Ecuador and Haiti, the cocoa Nacional is an endangered native variety with a unique floral aroma. In Ecuador the use of hybrid cocoa seeds causes genetic erosion, and threatens the endemic variety, the Nacional. The 200 small producers of UROCAL cultivate this cocoa on agro-forestry plots where it grows together with banana, soursop, papaya trees…..

Darjeeling tea Earl Grey. The Pôtông Tea Garden was planted 100 years ago by the British and is the first Darjeeling tea garden belonging to the 343 producers actually working it. They developed a new corporate model based on autonomy, solidarity and ecology in a region, which is dominated by big plantations and their use of chemicals. The altitude, the freshness and the pure cliamte of the Himalayas give Darjeeling tea ist particularity and character. In combination with the natural bergamot aroma, the result is an Earl Grey tea bringing out the finest English tradition.