Future

Blend

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Our Union Promise: You can enjoy your coffee knowing it is always sourced direct from farmers via Union Direct Trade. Always high quality speciality coffee, carefully roasted fresh to order.

Introducing our most climate kind and resilient blend yet

A rich, warming blend with notes of dark chocolate, berries and spice. Grown in forest-based systems in Ethiopia and Uganda, showcasing how climate resilient farming can deliver exceptional coffee. Created in collaboration with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Roast
This coffee is a medium roast. Roast level influences the flavour and body of coffee. Darker roasts are fuller bodied, lighter roasts brighter. A medium roasted coffee bean is medium brown in colour. It retains many of the flavour profiles of the natural bean but also gains some sweetness and body from a longer roast.
Best Brewed As
espresso
This coffee is best brewed as an espresso (coffee shop type machine or a bean to cup). All our coffees can be brewed using any method, but this is our recommendation for a method which suits the coffee particularly well.
filter
This coffee is best brewed as a filter (cafetiere, pour over, aeropress, drip, etc.). All our coffees can be brewed using any method, but this is our recommendation for a method which suits the coffee particularly well.

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Introducing our most climate kind and resilient blend yet, created in collaboration with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - building on decades of sourcing coffee grown with care for people and planet.

This unique blend brings together Arabica coffee from the biodiverse rich Yayu Wild Forest in Ethiopia with climate resilient Excelsa coffee from Uganda, both located within Africa’s Great Rift Valley.

Across the coffee world, many production systems rely on irrigation and synthetic fertilisers, which can contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions. Future Blend was developed to go a step further, showcasing coffees grown within forest or forest-like environments, without irrigation and using natural nutrient recycling rather than synthetic inputs. The result is a lower carbon coffee that supports forest conservation and biodiversity.

Excelsa is a lesser known coffee species and a key focus of research at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It thrives in warmer, drier conditions and is already helping farmers adapt to the realities of climate change.

In the cup, expect a rich and comforting profile with notes of dark chocolate, berries and warming spices.

We are the home of fresh coffee. When you order online, your coffee is roasted fresh to order, especially for you. Plus, it’s specialty grade and traded ethically through Union Direct Trade.

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Free UK delivery via Royal Mail 48 Tracked when you spend £30 or more.

Free UK courier delivery via DPD available when you spend £45 or more.

All orders over 2kg will be sent free of charge.

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