Events

First destination: Chapada Diamantina, Bahia Earlier this year I embarked on an unforgettable journey to Brazil.  The trip is in collaboration with our partners Hunt and Brew and Jarrad Seng. I love having the opportunity to share the beauty of my country; its diversity, the strength of our people and, of course, the great coffees.

After months of hard work and preparation, the Dimattina WA crew officially unveiled our new website with a bang! The Dimattina website has been a long time coming and on Thursday 19th July it was time to finally showcase what has been accomplished.  Marketing manager Toni Riccelli pulled no punches when it came to planning

Dimattina Coffee has a wealth of knowledge. Being connected to strong industry leaders and café’s alike, Dimattina aims to educate and empower our accounts across Australia. Our Melbourne Industry nights, carefully organised by Candy Weiss, are curated to benefit our cafes by sharing expertise of prominent industry professionals in a comfortable learning environment. As Dimattina

It’s no secret that many rural coffee-producing communities worldwide exist well below the poverty line.  For many communities, coffee is a lifeline crop that keeps them functioning, but not necessarily thriving.  For the Wau community in Papua New Guinea’s Morobe Province, a subsistence income is not enough to run a town with multiple needs, not

The Melbourne International Coffee Expo (or MICE) is to coffee professionals and hipsters what Mecca is to Muslims; a holy pilgrimage to a city renowned the world over for its art, culture and of course coffee.  Melbourne is truly the perfect setting for an event such as MICE. Down every graffiti encrusted alleyway you are

As part of our recent coffee discovery trip to Sumatra, the Dimattina Coffee crew were very fortunate to be able to spend a few days at Wahana Estate – which is located in the village of Lae Mungkur, Sidikalang North Sumatra. The drive to the estate from Medan (the capital of North Sumatra) is about

Today is the opening of the Burundi Cup of Excellence competition.  We met for a casual breakfast before heading over to the venue down the road.  It is a relatively new building compared to what I have seen so far in Burundi, two storeys with tinted blue glass windows.  Upstairs we can hear the hustle

Anyone unfamiliar with the annual Cup of Excellence competition could be forgiven for thinking of it as a simple process.  You taste coffee and say which one is the best right?  Well…yes…but the level of intricacy, hard work and dedication that goes into its conception is astronomical!  Cup of Excellence is something that has quite

Il Bendicion We spent the next couple of days visiting a few farms in Nueva Segovia. This was my first origin trip and I was chomping at the bit to get there. Most of the farms were within an hour from Ocotal. The first farm we visited was called La Bendicion.  One thing I noticed

Benefiico Las Segovias is a dry mill, focused on specialty coffee and working with over 200 farms in the Nueva Segovia region. The mill is located in the town of Ocotal and owned and managed by Luis Balladeras Moncada. Luis also owns and manages some of his own coffee farms. Our tour began with an