Fanatic

If you are looking for the best start to your morning, or a comforting cup after a meal, you will love our Fanatic house blend. Brazilian beans from the SanCoffee cooperative in the Minas Gerais state, give it a rich texture with chocolate and nutty flavours, complemented by the sweet nature of Guatemala's Finca La Bolsa beans from the El Cabro plot. An espresso roast which will work wonderfully in your espresso machine, stove top or cafetière.  

FANATIC AT A GLANCE

ABOUT THE PRODUCERS

Our Brazil component now comes from SanCoffee, a speciality coffee cooperative founded in 2000 in the Campo das Vertentes region of Minas Gerais. Caramelo is one of the cooperative’s core coffees, produced using pulped natural processing and built around the classic characteristics that make Brazilian coffees so dependable in espresso blends: notes of nuts, toffee and molasses, with a dense, creamy body. The coffee is sourced exclusively from cooperative members in the same region each year, helping deliver consistency from harvest to harvest while maintaining full traceability back to the producers involved.

What drew us to SanCoffee goes beyond the cup profile. The cooperative was created with a long-term focus on quality, transparency and sustainability, and today works with growers across the region to improve access to speciality coffee markets and increase returns at farm level. SanCoffee estimates that around 85% of the FOB value returns to producers after export and logistics costs, and the cooperative has also invested heavily in environmental and social initiatives, including becoming carbon neutral in 2020 and supporting smaller growers through its Beyond Borders programme. It’s a coffee that fits Fanatic well: approachable, versatile and consistent, but backed by a supply chain with genuine substance behind it.

Our Guatemala component comes from the El Cabro plot on the Finca La Bolsa farm.

Finca La Bolsa was bought by Jorge Vides, a distinguished medical professional, in 1958. Prior to this, the land was not used for coffee production. Jorge won numerous awards for coffee production and for his services to the Huehuetenango region, and the main hospital in the coffee-growing community was named after him. In 2002, La Bolsa competed in the Cup of Excellence competition and placed second, scoring 94.98.

La Bolsa sits between two mountains, which provide a very stable, humid microclimate. Combined with the limestone-rich soils, this gives the coffee a unique profile, with a rich, syrupy body and plenty of sweetness.