We are a trading company that connects cooperatives and producer associations across Latin America with the New Zealand market. We are a socially and environmentally responsible company, and we build every partnership on that same commitment. Our commercial strategy is grounded in mutual trust and long-term relationships with both our suppliers and our customers.
Our Purpose
Local presence at origin
We have people on the ground — not just paperwork, but real presence at the source: seeing, touching, and approving each product before it ships.
We curate, we don't just import
We don't simply move containers. Every lot is chosen — we only sell what we'd approve for ourselves.
A business partner, not just a supplier
Another product, another volume, another solution? We make it happen. Our relationship doesn't end at delivery — that's where the partnership continues.
Coffee
Latin America is home to some of the world's most distinctive coffee origins — from Brazil, the world's largest producer, to Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru, each shaped by its own altitude, soil and microclimate. Arabica dominates the continent's specialty scene, thriving in the cool nights and steep, high-altitude terrain many of these regions share.
A natural mutation of Typica, valued for its excellent adaptation to local soils and for delivering consistently high cup quality at a moderate yield. Originally introduced to Latin America through Brazil, it is also a standout variety in Peru's Junín and Cajamarca growing zones.
A cross between Caturra and Timor Hybrid, bred specifically for its resistance to coffee leaf rust, making it a reliable choice for farmers in disease-prone zones across the region.
Developed in Brazil from a cross between Mundo Novo and Caturra. A compact plant, with red and yellow variants.
A natural mutation of Arabica coffee originating in Brazil, now widely cultivated in Peru as the country's second most-planted variety. Its compact, dwarf growth habit allows denser planting and higher yields per hectare than its parent variety.
One of the most exclusive and highly valued coffee varieties in the world. Though originally from Ethiopia, Geisha has found ideal growing conditions across the region. It is a tall, low-yielding plant, and that scarcity combined with meticulous handling is part of what makes it one of the most sought-after specialty coffees on the market.
A hybrid of Robusta and Red Bourbon, developed in Brazil for disease resistance.
A natural mutation of Typica first identified in Guatemala, Pache produces a notably large bean and grows as a compact plant well suited to higher-density planting.
A rare, much-talked-about variety nicknamed “Inca Geisha” by early growers — though genetically distinct, with Ethiopian origins and a Kenyan research name (Scott Labs 9), originally selected by Scott Agricultural Laboratories. Grown mainly in the Inkawasi Valley (La Convención, Cusco), with an emerging presence in Jaén, Cajamarca, and produced in very limited volume.
Originally from Central America, Typica remains one of the region's leading varieties. It is also one of the oldest cultivated Arabica lines in the world, a tall, lower-yielding plant that has endured because growers prize its cup quality over sheer volume.
Cocoa
Latin America produces an estimated 90% of the world's fine and flavour cocoa exports. Brazil — Latin America's largest cocoa producer after Ecuador — is home to a fast-growing organic and specialty cocoa sector centred in Bahia and Pará. Peru, meanwhile, is recognised as the world's second-largest producer and exporter of organic cocoa, with its Criollo and Trinitario varieties prized for their complex, fine aromas. Across the region, harvest is nearly continuous, with each valley and country carrying its own peak season.
Cocoa Varieties
Grown in Cusco and Ayacucho (Peru), and the dominant variety in Bahia and Pará (Brazil), primarily for blending and industrial chocolate production. Strong, bittersweet, slightly acidic character that adds body and depth to blends — the same robust, high-yielding lineage that supplies roughly 80% of the world's cocoa trade.
A clone developed for high productivity and disease resistance, widely cultivated across Brazil and other Latin American countries. High yield is its main advantage, in exchange for a simpler flavour profile than fine varieties.
A rare, ancestral variety grown only in Cusco's La Convención Valley — one of the oldest and most genetically diverse cacao populations in the world, with natural resistance to pests and disease. Nutty and spiced, with red fruit and dried-flower notes, and an unusually high fat content that gives it an exceptionally silky, velvety texture.
Grown across the northern regions of San Martín, Amazonas and Cajamarca, this Criollo cacao is delicate, soft and complex in the cup — considered among the most aromatically refined cacaos in the world. It includes prized sub-types such as Porcelana, valued for its pale bean colour and exceptionally low tannins.
Grown in Espírito Santo, Brazil.
A natural hybrid of Criollo and Forastero, more aromatic than Forastero and hardier than Criollo. Peru's most widely cultivated fine-flavour type — accounting for over half of the country's cacao genetics — grown mainly in Junín, Amazonas and Huánuco. In Brazil, it is grown under the shaded cabruca system in Bahia. Balanced, fruit-forward, chocolatey profile.
Known as “the white jewel” of Peruvian cacao. A rare, pure Criollo genetic line that accounts for just 0.25% of global cacao production, grown exclusively in Piura's irrigated desert valleys. Bright tropical fruit, caramel and jasmine undertones, with a notably mild, low-bitterness profile.
Where extraordinary biodiversity meets extraordinary flavour.
Latin America is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth, and that diversity is the foundation of everything we trade. From the Andes - the world's longest continental mountain range, spanning seven countries - down through cloud-forest valleys into the Amazon basin, the continent's altitude bands and climates each carry their own soil, rainfall and microclimate, shaping a different crop, a different flavour, a different quality.
The Amazon rainforest alone is home to an estimated 10% of the world's known biodiversity, and stretches across nine countries - with roughly 60% of it contained within Brazil. Layered onto this is a chain of Andean microclimates running the length of the continent, giving Latin America one of the widest ranges of growing conditions found anywhere on the planet. This is why Latin America is recognised globally not just for the scale of what it grows, but for the quality behind it: the continent is home to 6 of the world's 17 megadiverse countries - Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela - each holding a significant share of the planet's flora and fauna.
Peru alone accounts for 84 of the world's 104 recognised life zones and 28 of the planet's 32 climates. Most of what we trade is grown by smallholder family farmers across these countries - many organic, many certified - working plots shaped by generations of knowledge of their specific valley or microregion, rather than by industrial-scale monoculture.
60%
of the Amazon rainforest lies within Brazil
28 / 32
of the planet's climates in Peru
6/17
of the world's megadiverse countries found in Latin America
9
countries share the Amazon rainforest
10%
of the world's known biodiversity found in the Amazon alone
Whether you're sourcing coffee, cacao, or exploring new origins, we'd love to talk. Get in touch to request samples, pricing, or more information about our products.
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Brazil
Rua Dr Armando de Morais, 42 Centro
Guarulhos, São Paulo, CEP 07020-050
Peru
Los Aromos 632, Dpto. 301,
La Molina, Lima 15026, Peru