Willoughby's Coffee & Tea is a coffee roasting company with one seemingly simple goal: to produce the finest, freshest, most skillfully roasted coffee beans available anywhere - Serious Coffee. Like many "simple" ambitions, ours requires an ongoing dedication to quality, standards and knowledge. We hope our coffees and teas reflect our commitment. What sets us apart? Experienced roasters of specialty coffee, unparalled coffee bean selection process, emphasis on freshness.

News & Reviews April, 2008 - Coffee Review gives our Panama Elida Estate a 95 point rating. It is the highest rated coffee this issue in which they reviewed limited edition, Special Reserve coffees. They write: "Willoughby's Panama Elida Estate (95) was a spectacularly pure, complex yet sweetly balanced coffee, a sort of classic Latin American washed coffee on steroids..." Read more...   Espresso Milano is our first new espresso blend since our company's inception in 1985. This northern Italian style blend is sweet and viscous with just the right amount of background bite. All of the components are roasted lightly, to a Full City roast, so you can taste the inherent natural sugar and feel the mouth coating texture. Our coffees have received a number of terrific reviews lately. Six of our current coffees have received high ratings on Coffee Review, one of the foremost authorities about coffee on the web and originaters of the 100 point rating system for coffee. Feb. 2008, Coffee Review just gave a 93 rating to our Colombia Huila La Argentina. Coffee Review:" impressive balance and structure: lushly sweet but crisply acidy with a lightly syrupy mouthfeel". This lovely micro-lot of coffee was produced in very small quantity; there is not a sufficient amount to segregate the "supremo". This is top-quality Colombia coffee. Read review... This coffee has now sold out and has been replaced with Colombia Supremo La Argelia - an extremely small farm with which we have a direct relationship. Panama Hacienda Esmeralda Especial - One of the most famous and unique coffees in the world. Just in time for the holidays. It's expensive but worth it. And in very limited supply. Nov 16, 2007. Almost sold out. Kenya AA Mathareini - Ken Davids of Coffee Review Nov 16, 2007 says "Intense, exuberantly complex aroma: orange, honey, cedar, blackcurrant. .....The finish is superb: saturated with grapefruit and chocolate, sweet, rich, long". This is a single plantation, auction lot recently arrived. Read review... Nov 16, 2007 May 1, 2007 - Willoughby's scores a 95 point rating in Coffee Review for our India AA Elkhill Estate coffee. This is one of Coffee Review's highest rated coffees and top pick of the May issue! Read complete review... Opens in new window. Now sold out. If we acquire more it will be in June 2008. Sep 1, 2007 - Willoughby's Rwanda Rushashi Fair Trade receives 91 points from Coffee Review. Dedicated website for home coffee roasting ! For those inclined to roast their own coffee at home we have a separate company and website called Roastmasters.com. We offer a large selection of unroasted coffee, home coffee roasters, espresso machines, tools and accessories. Check it out. Roastmasters.com offers all major brands of home coffee roasters including the terrific new Behmor 1600.

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Willoughby's wins in all coffee categories in 2006 New Haven Advocate Readers' Poll. See details.

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