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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
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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
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
From Gardelli's Premium Rarities series: a Finca Deborah Geisha that combines extended natural carbonic maceration with a refined washed finish, for lifted acidity and layered fruit. Picked February-May 2025, roast profile by Rubens Gardelli.
Jasmine, raspberry, passion fruit, pineapple, lime zest
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 clean, elegant washed Honduras from Juan Manuel Silvestre: vanilla sweetness and raisin, lively lemon acidity and warm molasses depth.
Vanilla, raisin, lemon, molasses
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
One of the most exciting Ethiopian lots Gardelli tasted this harvest: violet aromatics, juicy blackberry and dark grape, silky peach sweetness and a bright orange lift.
Violet, blackberry, dark grape, peach, orange
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
A returning favourite from Nestor Lasso in Gardelli's Competition series, fresh crop (picked Oct-Dec 2025): rich amarena cherry and Concord grape with crisp red apple and an elderflower lift.
Amarena cherry, red apple, Concord grape, elderflower
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
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
Costa Rica back in the Gardelli line-up: a fruit-forward natural from the Navarro Ceciliano family in Tarrazú, ripe strawberry and cherry into brown sugar and a gentle cinnamon finish.
Strawberry, cherry, brown sugar, cinnamon
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