The Highest Standard of Coffee
For more than 45 years, Distant Lands Coffee has been producing superior quality specialty coffee. Our signature estate grown coffee, La Minita, is considered by many to be one of the finest coffees in the world.
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As growers, we know that superior coffee starts at the very earliest stages: in the careful selection of seed material for our coffee trees, and the very best farmland located in optimal growing conditions–at high elevation with good soil, proper sun exposure and a well-defined rainy season.
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In addition to growing coffee on our farms, we source a large portfolio of Arabica beans from around the world. Through the years, we have developed long-term relationships in the countries where we source green coffee. Our green coffee team works directly and regularly with producers, millers and exporters to ensure that the coffee beans we buy are prepared to meet Distant Lands high quality standards.
The Distant Lands Difference
Distant Lands implements control measures at each step of coffee production. Because of this we can provide our clients unparalleled quality, consistency, and the transparency to know exactly where and how the coffees are grown.
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Our attention to every detail means our customers can brand, serve, and sell a consistently great coffee–one their customers will return to buy over and over again.
Vertical Integration Ensures Quality Control and Traceability
Distant Lands provides the best of the world’s specialty coffees to our customers. We do this via a proprietary series of quality control check points from coffee origin to roast locations. Quality inspections continue through delivery of perfectly roasted coffee to our clients. This is the business plan that built our company and remains our strategic vision.
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Distant Lands Coffee headquarters is located in Renton, WA. The company is comprised of four operation divisions.
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Distant Lands Coffee Roasting. Renton, WA and Tyler, TX
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La Minita. Green Coffee Trading. Burlington, VT
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Cattica. Coffee farm and mill operations. San Jose, Costa Rica
We Know Great Coffee Because We Grow It
Since 1968, Distant Lands has grown coffee at our flagship farm Hacienda La Minita in Costa Rica. Over the years, our coffee operations have expanded to include farms and mills in both Costa Rica and Colombia.
Coffee is Our Passion and Our Heritage
Founded in the lush farmlands of Costa Rica more than four decades ago, Distant Lands Coffee provides the world’s finest coffees to its grocery, food service and specialty roaster clients.
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Distant Lands is a farmer-first vertically integrated specialty coffee company. Because we grow, mill, source and roast premium Arabica coffees, we have visibility and control at all steps of production from seed to cup. It is this control that enables Distant Lands to deliver consistent quality coffee–always.
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Our operating divisions include coffee farms and mills, green coffee trading, multi-national quality control services, single-serve capsule production and roasting plants in Renton, WA and Tyler, TX.
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We employ 160 full-time workers in the United States and over 350 in our international operations. This year we will produce and ship over 45 million pounds of specialty coffee.