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Gardelli Specialty Coffees
Forlì, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
World Coffee Roasting Champion 2017 (Rubens Gardelli), who began home-roasting in 2008 after years running his mother's bar and won the Italian Roasting Championship four years running (2014–2017) before taking the world title. A new production facility was purchased in 2017 and formally became Gardelli Specialty Coffees Srl in 2018. Sources exceptional single-origin lots — Geishas, natural and anaerobic ferments, carbonic maceration — from Peru, Colombia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Burundi and India, roasted on a customised solid-drum roaster, plus the Cignobianco signature espresso blend. Runs the Muzungu Project, working directly with producers at origin to ensure fair pay and sustainable farming. Motto: "Acidity is not a crime."
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Caffeteca — Gardelli Specialty Coffees
Via Camillo Versari 2, 47121 Forlì (FC), ItalyMon–Wed, Fri–Sat 07:30–18:00, Thu 07:30–15:00, Sun 08:00–13:00
+39 0543 721136Coffees
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Gardelli's signature and only espresso blend, roasted by Rubens Gardelli from two fresh-crop specialty-grade Arabica lots sourced directly from small farmers. Built for supreme balance and everyday drinking, with milk chocolate, almond, plum and caramel. Source: shop.gardellicoffee.com.
Milk chocolate, almond, plum, caramel
From Cumbres, a fourth-generation Colombian coffee-farming family that blends its own Antioquia harvests with long-term partner lots — this decaf sources from Nariño at 1,800–2,100m, sugar-cane ethyl-acetate processed. Bright and comforting, with orange zest, sweet panela and crisp apple over a lively acidity. Source: shop.gardellicoffee.com.
Orange zest, panela, apple
Efrain Carhuallocllo Salvador farms four hectares in El Corazón, Chirinos, in northern Peru — one of the country's most innovative producers, a runner-up at Peru's first Cup of Excellence, growing mostly Caturra plus select Geisha without herbicides or pesticides. Bright and expressive, with ripe tangerine, crisp red apple and a smooth caramel fudge finish. Source: shop.gardellicoffee.com.
Tangerine, red apple, caramel fudge
A family-owned farm in the mountains of Huila managed by Nestor Lasso, combining generations of growing expertise with experimental fermentation and drying to push Colombian specialty coffee's complexity. This Sidra lot is dominated by intense passion fruit, with waves of juicy lychee, ripe pineapple and sweet melon. Source: shop.gardellicoffee.com.
Passion fruit, lychee, pineapple, melon
Robinson Rivera's anaerobic natural from a 6-hectare Castillo farm in Piendamó, Cauca, dried on parabolic beds. Rivera has grown coffee for 18 years and belongs to ACC, a Cauca farmer-support association. Complex and structured, with fermented blackberry and cherry over a vibrant red apple acidity and a clean, lingering dark chocolate finish. Source: shop.gardellicoffee.com.
Fermented blackberry, cherry, red apple, dark chocolate
From Gargari Gutiti Washing Station in Banko, Gedeb — part of the Yirgacheffe growing area — working with Ethiopian producer partner Primrose to develop experimental lots from the January 2025 harvest. Vibrant and expressive, bursting with juicy blueberry and pineapple sweetness, delicate lavender florals and a honeyed, clove-spiced finish. Source: shop.gardellicoffee.com.
Blueberry, pineapple, lavender, honey, cloves
A collaborative natural Geisha lot from three smallholders — Marcelino Chinguel Mijahuancca, Idelso Perales Perez and Paul La Torre Mejia — in Peru's northern highlands near Jaén, each processing on their own farm before the lot is combined for export. Layered and elegant, with floral jasmine, vibrant pineapple, maple syrup sweetness, cinnamon warmth and a soft peach finish. Source: shop.gardellicoffee.com.
Jasmine, ananas, maple syrup, cinnamon, peach
From Mukunga Estate, owned by Hanner Wanjiku Mukunga in Githunguri, Kiambu County — a 1970-established farm in the coffee-tea transition zone near Aberdare Forest. Classically Kenyan washed, with juicy redcurrant acidity, delicate rosehip and lime, warm cinnamon spice and a savory tomato edge. Source: shop.gardellicoffee.com.
Redcurrant, rosehip, lime, cinnamon, tomato
From Nyagishiru CWS in Buhinyuza, Muyinga Province, run by Zuberi Matsitsi's MATRACO — a multiple Cup of Excellence-winning operation managing over 7,000 trees across three washing stations. Refreshing and clean, with strawberry sherbet and ripe peach balanced by brown sugar sweetness and a delicate cucumber note. Source: shop.gardellicoffee.com.
Strawberry sherbet, brown sugar, cucumber, peach
Peñas Blancas is both a specialty farm and a social development project in Acevedo, Huila, led by Nestor Lasso with co-leader Jhon Vergara, giving regional smallholders access to shared infrastructure and quality training. Exceptionally complex and viscous, with pineapple and melon, juicy cherry sweetness, bright lime acidity and a herbal thyme edge. Source: shop.gardellicoffee.com.
Pineapple, thyme, cherry, melon, lime
Elkin Arcila's honey-processed Geisha from Finca Puerto Arturo in Támesis, Antioquia, where roughly 1,800 Geisha trees grow in volcanic soil under a two-harvest climate. Creamy body with soft malic acidity, yellow apple and lychee, high sweetness and a lactic, yogurt-like texture. Source: shop.gardellicoffee.com.
Bergamot, yellow apple, lichi, honey
Ashok Patre's third-generation Ratnagiri Estate, established 1920 in India's Bababudangiri range of the Western Ghats, run with laboratory-controlled fermentation and biodynamic methods. This carbonic maceration lot is fruit-forward and wine-like, with ripe mango, orange candy and a rounding marzipan sweetness. Source: shop.gardellicoffee.com.
Marzipan, mango, orange candy
A washed lot from the Worka Wuri wetmill in Gedeb, near Yirgacheffe, pooling cherry from around 650 local smallholders at up to 2,100m and processed on improved JARC cultivars (74110, 74112, 7454). Intensely fragrant and beautifully balanced, with green tea, peach, orange and verbena. Source: shop.gardellicoffee.com.
Green tea, peach, orange, verbena