Rocky Road Blend

Rocky Road is my version of what is probably the oldest coffee blend in the world - Mokha Java.

Our Mokha Java is a blend of a natural processed coffee from Guji in Ethiopia, and a wet-hulled coffee from the island of Java in Indonesia. The coffees, whilst being processed using the same traditional methods practised for centuries, is meticulously cultivated, carefully hand picked and sorted numerous times post-harvest to ensure a coffee of the very highest quality.

The Guji Ethiopia component of the blend adds a winey, spiced fruit flavour to the blend, with a rich chocolatey body. The Javanese coffee adds a rustic earthy character, soft honey and maple notes, along with a citrussy snap.

'Mokha' (or 'Moka') and 'Java' are synonymous with coffee, since they have been associated with coffee production and trading for many centuries. Mokha, being the port city in Yemen, through which most of the coffee from Yemen and Ethiopia would have been imported for the best part of 400 years.
On the island of Java in Indonesia, coffee was introduced and cultivated by the Dutch East India Company in the 1600s, and lucratively exported to Europe.

Either because of the complementary characteristics of these two origins, or perhaps purely out of supply/demand necessity, the 'Moka Java' blend was popularised, and has ever since been a mainstay blend of coffee roasters in Europe.

Medium roast.