Tasting Notes & Stories

Do you subscribe? Our Tasting Notes section provides you more with further reading on each month's featuring coffee roasters and their coffees. If you're not yet a subscriber, take a browse, enjoy a read. Tempted? Welcome...

Tasting Notes: September 2025 Coffees

Whilst August featured the release of our latest Drop #3 t-shirts and the addition of Islands 75% dark chocolate by subscription to our Pantry, we of course also continued our stellar lineup of coffee roasters once more in September.

Tasting Notes: August 2025 Coffees

It's August already? It sure is, and with everything you expect of us, we're matching the soaring weather with our own heat. Long may all this sunshine continue, and just an idea, maybe now is a great time to give making cold brew coffees at home a try? 

Tasting Notes: July 2025 Coffees

Hello July. Known for all it's high temperatures and long days, we're continuing with our own monthly heat with three of our favourite international roasters. Long may all this weather continue, and just an idea, maybe now is a great time to give making cold brew coffees at home a...

Tasting Notes: June 2025 Coffees

June, oh so glorious June. The sun has certainly been out of late and it's looking it is here to stay. June also marks the start of Summer in the Northern Hemisphere and contains the Summer solstice ~ the day with the most daylight hours. Long may all this weather...

Tasting Notes: May 2025 Coffees

Continuing into May we've another lovely set of roasters, of which several have been on our shortlist for a while now. Each month we make sure each of our features' coffee offerings complement and work with one another so that we can deliver consistency and also satisfy all your differing...

Tasting Notes: April 2025 Coffees

We've no April fools here, but we do have a double header from both Germany and Netherlands. Continuing the heat of March when featuring NOMAD and Tim Wendelboe, April marks the return of a few more of our subscribers' favourite coffee roasters, and a cherished roaster that's been long overdue...

Tasting Notes: March 2025 Coffees

What was once the first month of the year in the Roman calendar, we're already three months into an exiting coffee roaster calendar. For March we had several returning favourites as well as two new roasters featuring with GUSTATORY for their first time.

Tasting Notes: February 2025 Coffees

At the time of announcing our roasters, it was minus 3 degrees, and if February 2024's equal temperature is to go by, we're turning ourselves back to the normal heat of featuring all our international roasters.