Your trusted partner supplier of coffee to express your personality
Coffee is emotion.
The meticulous care given to the coffee plant - the rich soil at the given altitude, the amount of sun shine, and the time of picking the cherries - is the foundation of the coffee beans unique personality.
The processing phase is equivalent to the shaping of character of an individual. Natural or fully washed produces a different kind of coffee beans.
Roasting is equivalent to wine making. Roasting your coffee beans allow you to express fully the personality and character of the coffee.
It is the way you express your personality through your coffee cup.
About
Our Coffee Community
Coffee roasting is both science and art. Science as regards to craft and control roast profiles. Art as appreciation of coffee is so personal.
Let us, home roasters, join together to share and learn from one another.
Giving back to Africa
Giving back to society - Encouraging Africa Economic Growth through Trade and not Aid
My childhood was marked by helping my grand father, a street hawker selling dim-sum door to door. He instilled in me the spirit of quality when he rejected those dim-sum made by my grandmother that did not meet his standards. He also showed me the value of personal relationship in treating every person with respect and humility.
Born in Mauritius I grew up in an emerging (at one time the international community used the term “Third World”) country that is considered part of Africa. I experienced first hand the hardship of earning a living in such an environment which inspired my commitment to contribute in improving the living conditions of the people of Africa.
Why Rwanda?
Rwanda is a small land-locked country in Africa with a population that has shown resilience in overcoming many challenges to become a shining beacon of forgiveness and good governance to the world.
Why coffee?
Rwanda produces great coffee. Coffee employs a large proportion of the population, mainly women and is a significant export crop of Rwanda.
Promoting and selling Rwanda coffee is realising my commitment to contribute to make life better for people in Africa.
I believe in long-term relationship in business.
Gregory, my son and co founder of Latanier, travelled in May 2022 to Rwanda to get to know the owners of a few handpicked family owned coffee farms and production facilities to get to know and start building with them long-term relationships based on trust and mutual respect.
Reliable supplier to the SMEs roasters and home roasters
Aware of the difficulties of small/medium size and home roasters to source quality green beans in small quantity, Latanier supplies small lots starting with one kg of green beans. Our ambition is to provide a reliable supply of specialty coffee green beans to small and medium size coffee roasters in Singapore and SE Asia.
We believe in assisting people to seize opportunities.
We believe in the Spirit of Enterprise.
We believe Entrepreneurship is a way to improve the living conditions of the community.
We believe Africa's economic development is through Trade, access to markets for products of Africa.
We believe in supporting those at the bottom of the pyramid.
Maurice Co - founder -Born in Mauritius, Africa.