Remy Sol Coffee is grown, picked, milled, artisan roasted and hand-packed for you by a 700-member cooperative of small farmers in the famous Dota-Tarrazu region of Costa Rica. The Dota-Tarrazu region, with its elevation (4500-6000 feet), volcanic soils and cloud forest climate, is widely recognized as consistently producing one of the world’s finest coffees, noted for its rich aroma, forward acidity and complex flavors.

August, 2005: Kenneth Davids' Coffee Review ranks Remy Sol Coffee Peaberry in top ten of 32 Panamanian and Costa Rican coffees!

December, 2004: Food & Wine Magazine Says Remy Sol Coffee is"Ultrarich" and "Silky-Smooth"... an "Essential Gift"!

By choosing Remy Sol single-source coffees, you are helping to maintain the tradition of excellent coffee by directly supporting the farmers who produce it. Because we go direct, farmers are paid more, and have the satisfaction of knowing you are enjoying the fruits of their best efforts in every cup. You drink better coffee, delivered to your door at prices comparable to those offered by specialty roasters of commodity blends.

Better for the Farmer. Better in Your Cup.

Simple as that.

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Remy Sol Coffee is brought to you by Jeff Furchtenicht and Kim Sleder, a husband and wife team who discovered this wonderful coffee while on sabbatical in Costa Rica. We decided to bring it home with us to offer to our friends and family, and now their friends and families. We hope you enjoy the coffee as much as we do.

NEWS!

March, 2008. Remy Sol Coffee is going to Guatemala! We will be checking out some real Antigua coffees, and exploring artisan farms on the shores of Lake Atitlan where small farmers grow, dry-mill and roast their own coffees in old style drums over an oak fire. During the first half of March, we will be difficult to reach by email or phone. However, orders will be processed as usual for third week of March (subject to the Semana Santa holiday in Costa Rica).

December 2007. Remy Sol Coffee is joining Coffee Alternatives partner S.A.J.E. at their Just Holiday Marketplace on Saturday, December 8, at the SAJE space at 152 W. 32nd Street in downtown Los Angeles. Come down and see us! SAJE is also Remy Sol Coffee's featured partner for the month of December. Order your coffee from our S.A.J.E. page to have a portion of your coffee dollar support their efforts!

October 2007. Co-founder Jeff Furchtenicht just returned from a ten-day trip visiting the farmers in Costa Rica. Check out his photo essay! Harvest should begin in late December, but right now, the coffee trees are heavy with hard green cherries, just at the beginning of the ripening process. The farmers continue to impress with their commitment to quality and detail at every step. In one new development that changes the look of the small hillside farms, many of the farmers have now put in Poro trees for shade - in addition to a wonderful shade to enhance ripening and flavor development, these trees pour off copious nitrogen, helping soil and plant. Roasting continues in small batches to order under the careful eye of master roaster Juan Ali, who was the first person we met at the coop years ago when we stopped on a Saturday morning for a visit. It was nice to be back!

April, 2007. The 2007 harvest is all in and freshly milled. And its delicious! Another strong year for the Dota farmers. We feel blessed that despite the vagaries of weather all over the world, for one more year the Dota Valley has been able to bring us its unique terroir coffee with the trademark characteristics we have been enjoying for three years now. The consistency of the Dota cooperative coffee from year to year has been remarkable, and we are proud to be offering yet again one of the world's great coffees, fresh roasted by the farmers and shipped direct. Try Some!

September, 2006. Coffee Alternatives partner S.A.J.E. (Strategic Alternatives for a Just Economy) has been making strides addressing the impacts of gentrification on L.A.'s urban poor. We are proud to feature S.A.J.E. as Remy Sol Coffee's featured partner for the month of September. Order your coffee from our S.A.J.E. page to have a portion of your coffee dollar go to support their efforts!

August, 2006. Coffee Alternatives partner Homies Unidos is having their annual fundraiser August 1st, featuring a special screening of the film "Innocent Voices." To support their efforts, Homies Unidos is Remy Sol Coffee's featured partner for the month of August. Order your coffee this month from our Homies Unidos page to have a portion of your coffee dollar go to support their efforts!

May 15, 2006. Remy Sol Coffee co-founders Jeff Furchtenicht and Kim Sleder give a talk to the University of California, Santa Barbara Professional Women's Association, followed by a tasting of Remy Sol Coffee. Jeff and Kim share their coffee experiences, focusing on the history and business of coffee, how it is grown and produced, and how to distinguish better coffees. (For you foodies and coffee lovers, if you have a group who might enjoy having Jeff and Kim give a talk and/or tasting, please contact us for availability.)

October-November 2005. We've moved! We are now located in the charming town of Ojai, California. Reach us via P.O. Box 1054, Ojai, California, 93024 or come see us every couple of Sundays or so at the Farmers Market or at other local events.

September 2005. Meet our new Coffee Alternatives/Coffee+Art partners S.A.J.E. and Monkey House Productions! S.A.J.E. is a Los Angeles-based popular education and economic rights center working to promote better economic opportunity for poor and working class residents of Los Angeles' Figueroa Corridor neighborhood. Monkey House is a collective of artists, playwrights and actors currently working to produce the original play "The 31/62: A Patriot Act" through a series of free performances starting in Ojai, California's Libbey Park in October, 2005. Check them out!

August 2005. Remy Sol Top Ten! Renowned coffee expert and author Kenneth Davids, founder and editor of CoffeeReview.com, rates Remy Sol Coffee in the top ten in a blind cupping of 32 Panamanian and Costa Rican coffees! Davids calls our Peaberry "... delicate and tartly sweet, with sustained aromatic wood notes..." Thank you Coffee Review!

May-June 2005. Remy Sol Coffee showcases the new harvest at farmers markets in Ojai, northern Santa Barbara County and Half Moon Bay, California, as well as numerous tastings up and down the California coast. Come check us out (email for schedule), and please suggest any markets or events where you think we should be!

April 21, 2005 - Remy Sol celebrates spring fundraiser with Coffee Alternatives partner Homies Unidos. This fundraising event featured speakers and activists including Blaise Bonpaine, tasty edibles, film, live music, and of course Remy Sol Coffee. We appreciated the chance to meet so many Homies supporters in person. Thank you.

February, 2005 - Are you a Business/Restaurant/Larger Office? Would you like to offer better, more sustainable coffees to your customers or in your office? We have partnered with one of the first U.S. importers of single source, organic green coffees in order to be able to offer a selection of wonderful fresh-roasted single source organic coffees to larger accounts at prices and with service competitive to commodity wholesale and restaurant suppliers. Please email us with your inquiry to learn more and try samples.

January, 2005 - Remy Sol Coffee closes first "Coffee+Art" series featuring Portland singer/songwriter Stephen Ashbrook. Look for Stephen's upcoming CD, and watch for our next featured artist!

December, 2004 - Food & Wine Magazine recommends Remy Sol Coffee in its "editor-tasted and expert-tested" "Essential Gift Guide." (Food & Wine Magazine, December 2004, Page 127.)

November, 2004 - Remy Sol Coffee Launches "Coffee Alternatives" program together with Los Angeles-based Homies Unidos. A portion of every purchase made from our Homies Unidos page goes to Homies Unidos to support their efforts in addressing gang violence in Los Angeles.

Features/Press:

Edible Ojai, Spring 2006. Resident roaming gourmet Kathy Couterie is "[l]oving Remy Sol Coffee", which she includes in Edible Ojai's Top 100. (pp. 9 and 27). See the list.

Oregon State Bar Bulletin, May 2005 - Remy Sol Coffee's Jeff Furchtenicht is featured in "Profiles In The Law". Check it out.

Santa Barbara News-Press, March 16, 2005 - "Mugged" quotes Remy Sol Coffee's Jeff Furchtenicht on current coffee market conditions. Front page article.

Santa Maria Times, November 23, 2004 - "A Couple's Coffee Business" profiles Remy Sol Coffee. Page B10.

Santa Barbara News-Press, November 26, 2004 - "Coffee With Cause and Conscience" features Remy Sol Coffee's Coffee Alternatives program with Homies Unidos and describes how Remy Sol single source coffee helps farmer, consumer and community. Page B9.