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In common with many of our colleagues in the industry, we take the business of sourcing our coffee very seriously, and our approach to it reflects a passion for coffee, and its role in the communities which produce it, built up over many years working with our associates around the world.
Lincoln & York’s directors, Simon Herring and James Sweeting, have a long background in coffee trading, and prior to founding the company in 1992 built up relationships with growers in most coffee-producing countries, and have continued to add to those associations with regular visits to identify new sources.
As part of these relationships, the company have paid close attention to the social, environmental and economic impact that coffee-growing has on the local communities, ensuring wherever possible that producers receive a fair price, working conditions are acceptable, and the business is sustainable.
As a roaster specialising in private label production, Lincoln & York creates coffee products for a wide variety of different end-users in different markets and with individual requirements, and therefore use coffee from an equally wide variety of sources around the world to develop customised as well as stock products.
Lincoln & York has a pro-active and innovative green coffee sourcing operation and is continuously adding to the list of Farmers and Cooperatives with whom we have ongoing relationships.
We work with progressive farmers who are constantly finding better husbandry for their coffee crops. Here in Brazil, there is an ever increasing amount of qualities and varieties becoming available to us - arabica and robusta, washed and unwashed, and also the semi - washed and pulped natural, which are becoming the mainstay of some of the better quality espressos.
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Fazenda Cachoiera, Pocos de Caldos, Sul de Minas, Brazil |
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We are working with big farms and small farms via their cooperatives. This allows us to source reliable consistent qualities as well as single estate speciality beans that have distinctive cup characteristics.
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Cerrado region, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
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Sul de Minas, Brazil |
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David Herring and Luzius Wipf, east of Dalat, Vietnam, hunting for rare bourbon trees. |
We travel to Asian countries to source spicy full bodied arabicas and clean cupping, neutral robustas which help produce classic Italian espressos with thick cremas and traditional flavours.
Here in India there is a wide variety of coffees available - arabica, robusta, washed and unwashed, and speciality coffees such as the famous Indian Monsooned Malabar.
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Fais Musakutty, Sunticopa, Bangalore , India.
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A rare shot of Arabica, Robusta and Liberica together. Bibi estate, Sunticopa.
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The list of good quality coffees is a long one in East Africa:
- The wild and gamey Ethiopia and the classic irreplaceable Kenya arabicas.
- The Uganda and Tanzania robustas and arabicas.
- The exquisite washed arabicas from Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi.
Some of the best estate qualities of these coffees will be classified speciality grade for the single origin market, while the good examples of these coffees can be used in blends.
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Willem Lubinkhof and John Sweeting at Munali Farm, Zambia, discussing the flowering.
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In Central America we were part of the international cupping panel to decide which parcels of coffee went forward to the final list for the Speciality Coffee Association of Costa Rica cup of excellence. Here are grown some of the finest coffees available that go towards making great blends. From the high grown, high acidity beans that are used for filter coffees, to the full bodied low grown that make fantastic espressos, many qualities are available here. Some of the best estates pride themselves in their cup quality and some of their parcels of coffee fetch very high prices.
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There are over 80 countries in the world that produce coffee, each with its individual characteristics, and there are many countries that we are currently sourcing coffee from, that we haven’t got round to paying a visit to yet such as Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Indonesia and many more that we look forward to visiting. However, if we haven’t been there, the chances are that we know some one who has, and we will continue to work with them to improve our working knowledge of the ever changing world of coffee.
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Flowering, Naranjo, West Valley, Costa Rica
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“Fairtrade” Licensed Coffee
Lincoln & York is licensed by the Fairtrade Foundation to roast and pack “Fairtrade” coffee. This coffee will have the Fairtrade logo on the bag and the box.
To date, through our alliance with the Fairtrade Foundation Lincoln & York has purchased Fairtrade certificated coffee from Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Honduras, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Guatemala and Bolivia. With the increasing success of the “Fairtrade” program, more coffee will become available and we will be able to use it in our “Fairtrade” blends. |
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Organic Coffee
Lincoln & York is licensed to roast organic coffee under the Organic Farmers and Growers certification. We are continually adding to the sources of our organic coffees - to date these include Honduras, Costa Rica, Peru, Colombia, Brazil, Indonesia, and Ethiopia.
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Rainforest Alliance Coffee
There is an increasing range of coffees available from Rainforest Alliance Certified™ farms in countries such as Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Nicaragua. For more information click on the link to their website. |
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Swiss Water Decaffeinated
As well as stocking methyl chloride and carbon dioxide decaffeinated coffee, Lincoln & York stocks many of the fantastic cupping Swiss Water Decaffeinated single origins and blends. |
Utz Kapeh
More and more farms are gaining this accreditation, which is increasingly popular in Europe . Lincoln & York purchases Zambian coffee from Munali estate, the first farm in Africa to be awarded the Utz Kapeh accolade.
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