Don Adán Coffee Blog

It has finally arrived!

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:59:00 GMT

Our long wait for the new crop is finally over, we received the word today from our transport specialist that Quarantine check were done, customs people are happy and our beans are on its way to our warehouse, most probably we will be roasting it this Friday for a next week in store experience.

Come and try it, tell us what you think!

New Wholesale Manager

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 06:32:00 GMT

Hello Don Adanians

We have been so busy we cant even chase our tail anymore, that is a good problem to have.

To our rescue comes Chantal Vincent, a lovely lady with a passion for food, coffee and sales.

Chantal will be handling most of our wholesale accounts, drop her a line at chantal@donadancoffee.com.au

She will be more than happy to handle your enquiries and drop in to visit you and check your needs.

Chantal background is quite impressive, an accomplished artist that has seen success in the wine industry.

We welcome Chantal to the fold and look forwards to sharing our beautiful coffee world.

Thought Of The Week

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 06:08:00 GMT

"Look well to this day. Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day."

Sanskrit Poem

Thought Of The Week

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:01:00 GMT

Thought Of The Week

"Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life."

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832)

Thought Of The Week

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 20:42:00 GMT

"I got a fortune cookie that said, 'To remember is to understand.' I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer. A good editor remembers being a writer. A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child." Anna Quindlen (Author and Journalist)

Coffee Market Snapshot

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 04:30:00 GMT

As we are coming to the harvest of coffee in Central America is worth mentioning the points we feel are relevant to the market at this moment in time.

I want to give you my opinion, for whatever is worth, and as usual I remind you that this is not to be taken as advice but I intend to just be your eyes on the ground and hopefully be part of the total information you take and you can use it in your decision making.

My last predictions were quite accurate and considering that all of this is a big gamble I will dare to predict again.

The NYSE market has been quite steady in holding the prices up, this is relevant and unusual as we see the european economies collapse, commodities go up and down, and the foreign currency wars get even more entrenched.

All this combined, this events would have caused the coffee prices to drop, but in a trend that is not common we have seem them quite steady.

The bad weather in the Latin American producing areas, particularly North of Colombia and South of Mexico have done little to help ease the prices. Even as we expect the production to be slightly higher than last year, it seems that the thirst for good quality arabicas is going to increase by at least 10% in global consumption, whilst the production might be 6% than last year.

Closer to home, we are, as a nation dropping the usage of instant coffee. Ten years ago 90% of Australians drank instant coffee, the national average is now down to about 50%, Specialty coffee is on the increase, and the AUD$ strength has been the salvation for our industry.

As we start the harvest in Honduras, we face the unusual situation of sporadic rains and yet our trees have not lost much of the fruit (contrary to what happened in El Salvador and other low altitude areas).

I believe that the quest for good quality arabicas will be a tad more expensive in the next few months, mainly because the bulk of farmers will see little benefit in spending the extra money in keeping up the quality, they are still trying to pay loans and recover form years of lower prices, the prices of coffee at a commodity level can rise up to around USD$2.60 in the next few weeks if original targets are not met. This will bring the "milds" market and the plus to a mark of around $2.90.

It wouldn't take much to tip this higher, all we need to see is the crazy stock market volatility to realise how vulnerable this situation can be if any of the coffee producing countries hits adversity or if one of the bigger hedge funds decides to play with the market.

We expect the next crop to be available from end of January 2012, we still have stock should you need it before then of the 2011 crop.

I hope this info is useful!

New harvest coming soon

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:08:00 GMT

It has been a pretty busy few months, we are serving in store the last coffee for this year's harvest. This will last us for the next 12 weeks or so, which is going to be just right to receive the first lot of the new 2011/2012.

The coffee trees are looking lush and heavy with our Pacamara beans, some are so heavy that we have had to support the branches! The constant and more than usual rain in the highlands, combined with the pleasant heat of this time of the year, are making the growing conditions ideal and we might have to start the harvest a few weeks earlier.