At the core of Portola, you will find a fanatic passion for coffee.  Portola is a simple company intent on crafting simply the best tasting coffee imaginable.   It is from this love and passion for coffee where it all began.  Of course this alone cannot create coffee above all others.  Nope.  For a handcrafted roaster, words like meticulous, tedious, patience, experimentation, repetition, describe the behind-the-scenes work required of every great coffee.  Small is key - a counterintuitive concept amongst the coffee giants of today.  Intimacy in process is difficult, but absolutely necessary in order to coax, lure, and entice those subtle, yet shockingly amazing flavors from the bean.  Most troublesome is delivering freshness – the most sought after goal in today’s specialty coffee market, but one with few successes.  Flavor and freshness are like Juno’s swans in Shakespeare’s  As You Like It, “coupled and inseparable.”   We pride ourselves in delivering the titillating flavors of freshness from our roaster to your cup; because quite frankly, none of this stuff would matter otherwise.  Quality in product and process… that is the Portola difference.  

 

Of course it is not just about us.  As much as we would like to take all of the credit, there is another chapter to this story.  The best coffee begins with the best beans.  The best beans are the product of hard work, dedication, and ideal growing conditions.  This drives us to honor the farmers who dedicate themselves not only to the quality beans they grow and harvest, but also to the environment in which they are grown.  We know we alone cannot solve the problems of the world, but we can certainly do our small part to help.  That is why we choose to hand-select the highest quality Arabica beans from around the Earth that are certified to promote environmental and social sustainability.  
 
...doing the right thing has never tasted so good!

 

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