Experience Matters. Minglewood’s tried and true coffee program delivers on every cup-every time.
Our coffee is program is based upon relationships that have been built over the previous 15 years across the western United States and throughout the most prized growing regions in the world. We foster and maintain these connections throughout our sourcing platforms, product integration & preparation, and in the deliver this genuine experience to you in every cup we serve, with love.
Our growers are small, family owned farms, traceable micro lots and vertically integrated communities in the growing regions they’re located. Each grower is deeply involved in the process from crop production to cuppings, and voting as shareholders on investment and infrastructure.
We import our beans through the Port of Seattle, where our partner blends and roasts our beans every Monday morning in the coffee capital of the world. After roasting, our beans “rest” and aromas stabilize during their 48 hour commute from Seattle to the North Shore of Lake Tahoe where we serve them on Wednesday afternoon. That’s as good as it gets!
Beans & Blends
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Minglewood’s house Espresso Blend is comprised solely of relationship coffees from some of the finest growing regions in the world. Blended for balance, roasted for richness, you'll find as an espresso it's sweet and silky but has enough depth to stand out in steamed milk.
espresso roast
Vides 58 is a family company with six farms based in Huehuetenango, Guatemala and a state-of-the-art cupping lab in Guatemala City. While currently managed by Renardo “Nayo” Ovalle Vides and his incredible team, the Vides 58 legacy began sixty years ago in 1958 with Jorge Vides, Nayo’s grandfather. While employed as a full-time doctor, Jorge Vides traveled constantly, scheduling visits to his patients in various regions of the country. His passion for health led him to become Director of the National Hospital of Huehuetenango, which to this day bears his name. While visiting patients in Huehuetenango, Jorge came across a beautiful plot of land and he decided to purchase it and develop a new hobby outside of medicine. At this time, the land was covered in forests, and he proceeded to cultivate Bourbon and Caturra coffee varieties. His humanitarian sense extended beyond coffee production. In 1980, he founded a school that still runs on the farm, which has since been named after him and officially recognized by the Ministry of Education. Four years later, Anacafé named him ‘Distinguished Coffee Grower’ due to his success in production work.
Jorge’s family has continued to follow in his footsteps and Nayo, the current manager and promotor of these farms, has dedicated his time to variety diversification, improved quality and equipment advancement. He works alongside a wonderful team of dedicated and motivated professionals, one of whom is his wife Jaqueline, a Q grader who spends much of her time in their stunning lab in Guatemala City. The Vides 58 approach to business is one of great professionalism, focused on cultivating long-term mutually beneficial relationships. The entire team radiates with kindness and has the unique ability to put those around them immediately at ease. Conversations and visits are never rushed, and Nayo invests an incredible amount of time and care to making sure visitors are getting the most out of their experience.
Minglewood’s house Breakfast Blend is roasted lighter to preserve the specialty coffee's origin character and natural acidity, making for a traditional bright but balanced cup of coffee to start your day.
breakfast blend
french roast
Minglewoods's house French Roast Blend is our take on what a dark roasted specialty coffee should be, where we only apply just enough roast character to caramelize the natural sugars to create a chocolaty cup of coffee.
guatemala
huehuetenango
JC Coffee Farms is a family partnership of Canaan Estate Coffee and Condado Estate Coffee, producers of fine Arabica beans. The farms are located in the Carmo de Minas and Sul de Minas regions of Brazil. The farms were established in the late 1800s as dairies, cattle ranches, and coffee plantations. Situated in the mining face of the Serra da Mantiqueira mountains, the plantation’s very fertile land and ideal climate has allowed for growth each year as well as excellent results in regional quality contests in Brazil.
JC is a part of the COCARIVE, headquartered in Carmo de Minas, which serves several local municipalities in the Mantiqueira de Minas region. COCARIVE stands for the production of specialty coffees that promotes the development of the region. The COCARIVE’s goal is to add value to high quality coffees while consolidating the region already recognized nationally and internationally as a producer of specialty coffees. The COCARIVE provides its members the services of a professional structure with a high level of expertise in quality and taste evaluation. The COCARIVE offers specialty coffee made unique as a product of controlled origin in Brazil.
JC Coffee Farms brings only the finest coffees from their family estates to the roasting room. Every step of the process is controlled and managed by their farmers, from the seeds all the way to the delivery of the green beans. They produce, process, export, import and distribute, so when you buy their coffees, you are purchasing direct from their farms.
Brazil Minas Gerais
Our friend, Luz Marina Trujillo, grew up in a family of coffee producers and talks happily about spending her childhood playing with coffee beans instead of dolls. Now, she produces one of the finest coffees available on her estate, Santa Elena, in the highlands of Costa Rica’s most famous coffee-growing region, Tarrazú. Luz Marina’s coffee is grown under shade, and the perfectly ripe cherries are hand-picked and sorted for quality at her mill. The cherries are then carefully de-pulped, washed, and dried slowly on the patios at Finca Santa Elena to fully develop acidity and depth of flavor. Additional care is given to her coffee in the “reposo” stage, resting in parchment for at least 30 days after drying before being milled and shipped to us in Seattle.
Like many of our favorite growers, Luz Marina takes a holistic approach to sustainability by minimizing synthetic inputs and utilizing a closed-loop fertilizing system that composts discarded coffee pulp using red-wiggler worms. Her water treatment system meets the Costa Rican government’s high environmental standards and preserves the river’s cleanliness that flows through the estate. She offers her seasonal employees outstanding housing, health care, and a state-of-the-art drinking water filtration system. We are happy to have her, and her coffee, back on our offering list.
Costa Rica Tarrazu
Swiss Water Process
Decaffeinated
The old-fashioned approach to decaf was: take whatever you had lying around, roast it really slow and dark, and blame the results on decaf in general. We couldn’t let this go unchecked. With our Premium Decaffeinated Blend, you get coffee that shows balance, depth, and liveliness at a range of roasts. Brazil on rhythm guitar, washed Latins playing lead, Indo/Asia on bass, and a dose of exotic naturals playing tambourine. The tasty result: chocolate and caramel flavors with a touch of natural fruit, just enough acidity to provide a balance of sparkle, and sweetness riding a long, smooth finish. Pull shots with enough depth and sustaining crema, brew from French Press to pour over, and you’ll be surprised its decaf.