"There are coffees that are good. There are coffees that are great. And then there are two coffees that exist in a category entirely their own."
When we set out to create the Espretto Private Collection, we did not ask ourselves what would sell. We asked ourselves what would be remembered. What coffees, if we were to drink them once in our lives, would stay with us forever — not as a memory of caffeine, but as a memory of beauty.
The answer came from two places on opposite sides of the world. One from the mist-wrapped Blue Mountains of Jamaica. One from a single estate in the highlands of Panama that has, over the past two decades, redefined what coffee can be.
ORO No.02 — Edition One
Jamaican Blue Mountain
There is a reason Jamaican Blue Mountain commands prices that make even seasoned buyers pause. It is not marketing. It is geography, climate, and the extraordinary patience of the farmers who tend these slopes at elevations between 910 and 1,700 metres above sea level.
The Blue Mountain range creates a microclimate of near-constant cloud cover, cool temperatures, and rich volcanic soil. Coffee grown here matures slowly — far more slowly than almost anywhere else on earth. This extended maturation period produces a bean of extraordinary density, with a flavour profile that is the antithesis of everything aggressive or harsh.
ORO No.02 presents as a cup of profound gentleness. Milk chocolate and toasted walnut on the nose. A body of uncommon smoothness — almost silken. Notes of dark cherry and a whisper of cedar on the finish. No bitterness. No astringency. Simply, an extraordinary cup.
Aroma
Milk Chocolate · Walnut
Palate
Dark Cherry · Cedar · Cream
Finish
Long · Silken · Clean
ORO No.03 — Edition Two
Panamanian Geisha
In 2004, at the Best of Panama auction, a coffee from Hacienda La Esmeralda sold for a price that the industry considered impossible. It was not a stunt. It was a revelation. The Geisha varietal — originally from the Gesha region of Ethiopia, brought to Panama via Costa Rica in the 1960s and largely forgotten — had been rediscovered on the slopes of Boquete, and it was unlike anything anyone had tasted.
The Peterson family, who have tended Hacienda La Esmeralda for three generations, did not set out to create the world's most celebrated coffee. They simply refused to compromise. The Geisha plant is extraordinarily difficult to cultivate — low-yielding, sensitive to temperature, demanding of altitude. But at 1,600 to 1,800 metres in the Boquete highlands, it produces something that defies easy description.
ORO No.03 opens with the fragrance of jasmine and bergamot — so pronounced that first-time drinkers often look around for the source. The cup is luminous: tangerine, white peach, and rose water, with a tea-like delicacy that makes it unlike any espresso you have encountered. It is not just a coffee. It is an argument for what coffee can be.
Aroma
Jasmine · Bergamot · Rose
Palate
Tangerine · White Peach · Honey
Finish
Tea-like · Floral · Luminous
Why Limited
Small Batch. Single Estate. Once.
Both ORO No.02 and ORO No.03 are sourced from single estates in single harvest seasons. There is no blending, no averaging, no safety net. What you receive is exactly what the land produced in that specific year, under those specific conditions.
Jamaican Blue Mountain is certified and regulated by the Coffee Industry Board of Jamaica — only coffee grown within the designated Blue Mountain region above 910 metres may carry the name. Annual production is a fraction of what other origins produce. Global demand vastly exceeds supply.
Hacienda La Esmeralda Geisha is arguably the most awarded coffee in history, having won or placed at the Best of Panama competition more times than any other producer. Each year's lot is allocated months before harvest. We secured ours early. We will not be able to secure more until the next season.
A Note on Freshness
"Coffee of this calibre deserves to be roasted as close to your cup as possible."
Both Private Collection editions will be roasted at our flagship London roastery — opening summer 2026 with a small signature specialty coffee tasting lounge on site — and dispatched within 48 hours of roasting. For our US customers, we have partnered with a renowned American specialty roastery to ensure the same standard of freshness. EU orders are roasted by our two partner micro-roasters in Amsterdam.
We do not expect these editions to last. We expect the opposite. If you are reading this and you have not yet joined the waitlist, we would encourage you to do so now. Waitlist members receive access 24 hours before the public release, on April 20, 2026.
This is not a marketing claim. It is a simple statement of fact: there are very few coffees in the world that can genuinely be called irreplaceable. ORO No.02 and ORO No.03 are two of them.