Our Approach
Great coffee is not the result of chance. Extraordinary coffee is created by design at the hands of dedicated professionals around the world. Our coffee professionals collaborate in a shared, uncompromising environment, and have a commitment to quality.
Our Mission
The Intelligentsia purpose, philosophy, and values that leads us down the road of extraordinary.
How Extraordinary
Coffee Is Made
Tracing our coffee’s remarkable journey, from plant genetics and farming, to harvest and the many forms of processing.
Intelligentsia Direct Trade
Over 20 years ago, we realized the coffee trade wasn't giving us access to the world's best coffees. So we began traveling the world to find them and the people who grow them — people who share our obsession with quality.
Sam
Rwanda, 2003
Mauricio
Guatemala, 2003
Fabio
Honduras, 2003
Epe
El Salvador, 2003
Raúl
Guatemala, 2009
Aman
Ethiopia, 2012
Mariana
Bolivia, 2012
Furaha
Rwanda, 2015
People we work with
Traveling tirelessly to the communities where our coffees are grown and building direct and lasting relationships with the people who grow them is still the best way we know to source the best coffees.
Coffee By Design
After it arrives from the farm, green coffee is transformed into something beautiful through a meticulous process of roasting, cupping, blending, brewing in our Coffeebars.
in season
Coffee cherries—the origin of the seed that is roasted coffee you buy in a bag or drink as an espresso shot—is an agricultural product subject to the same laws of seasonality as fruit at the farmers market.
Origin
Intelligentsia buys coffee from over a dozen countries around the world. Each farm has a unique story to tell.