This bold espresso blend is an easy drinking, workhorse blend that is perfect for milk-based coffees & has us dreaming of a decadent caramel, dark chocolate & hazelnut tart!
Wingman is the perfect all-rounder. A full-bodied coffee with mild acidity and a beautifully balanced finish. It’s our go-to blend: a real crowd pleaser. And just like any great wingman, it’s always got your back.
This blend is made up of three delicious single origins from Brazil, Colombia & India. We constantly update the blend with fresh crop coffees from the same farms, aiming to keep the flavour profile as consistent as possible. So you can rest assured, the beans are always fresh, but it tastes just like the coffee you know & love!
We’ve carefully sourced each of the origins that make up our Ultimate Wingman blend from the farms below:
Fazenda Ambiental Fortaleza (meaning environmental fortress farm) has been owned by the Barretto family since 1850. When Silvia and her husband, Marcos, inherited the farm in 2001 they focused on becoming socially, environmentally and economically sustainable. They’ve also been past recipients of sustainability awards from the SCA.
The Bob-o-link coffees are sourced from a network of family-run farms. The farmers share a collective vision to produce the best coffees possible, using sustainable agricultural methods. FAF offer their workers a 50% share of the coffees they plant to give each member a greater sense of ownership.
The coffee is selectively handpicked at its ripest to ensure flavour, sweetness & a clean cup. it’s then dried naturally, either in raised beds or on cement patios.
Fun fact: the Bobolink project was named after the birds who migrate to the area every Autumn.
Colombian coffee is among the most recognisable and dynamic in the world, with multiple growing regions whose distinct yet consistently crowd-pleasing profiles reflect the various microclimates across the country.
Gran Galope offerings are a blend of coffees from between 10 and 30 smallholder farms, each with comparable cup characteristics and score. The members’ farms are around 3 hectares on average. Sitting between 1,200-2100 meters above sea level, the land is ideal for coffee growing. The principal variety of the region is Castillo (a hybrid cross). Many of the farmers also produce beans, corn, plantain, and fruits alongside coffee.
The coffee is picked ripe and depulped the same day, then given an open-air fermentation in tanks or buckets for anywhere between 12–36 hours. The coffee is washed clean of its mucilage before being dried on patios.
Nestled in the verdant landscapes of the Western Ghats in southern India, the Chikmagalur region is a hidden gem in the world of specialty coffee. Located in the state of Karnataka, Chikmagalur boasts an average altitude of around 1,000m above sea level, making it an ideal location for coffee cultivation. The Western Ghats are one of the few vitally important, global eco-hotspots, with farmers in the region taking particular care to grow shade grown, environmentally responsible coffee.
Coffee cherries are depulped and fermented to remove the mucilage. The beans are then washed and spread out to dry, either on raised beds or drying patios.
Robusta coffee sometimes gets a bad wrap. Likely because low quality robusta has been used to bulk out many large-scale, commercial blends for years. That’s certainly not the case here!
Just like arabica, all coffees were not created equally & range wildly in quality. We source only high quality robusta coffee. In fact, it’s the addition of the robusta that gives our Wingman blend its big body & rich flavour notes, characteristics that have made it a cult favourite with our customers.
We’d love to officially debunk the ‘all robusta is bad’ myth. It just needs to be added with intention & purpose to bring out the best in a blend. That’s what we’ve done here & we think you’ll agree as soon as you taste it!
Head to the store to grab yourself some of our Ultimate Wingman blend.
