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Madagascar Coffee Company

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Overview

Madagascar Coffee Company (MCC) is a Madagascar-based exporter and small-batch roaster founded by Kelley and Hazen to revive the country's specialty coffee sector after thirty years of collapse, working with smallholder farmers in Haute Matsiatra, Itasy, Amoron'i Mania, Fitovinany and Atsimo Atsinanana. MCC offers Arabica and Robusta in natural, washed and semi-washed processing and is the operation most often credited with reintroducing Malagasy coffee to international specialty buyers from Japan and the UK to the US.

Known for

  • Madagascar-based revival operation rebuilding the country's specialty coffee sector farmer-by-farmer
  • Sources from Haute Matsiatra, Itasy, Amoron'i Mania, Fitovinany and Atsimo Atsinanana regions
  • Both green-coffee export and small-batch domestic roasting in Light, Medium and Dark profiles
  • Light-medium roasts highlighting Madagascar's natural sweetness and citrus notes
  • Natural-processed Robustas blended into espresso for chocolate-covered cherry character

Why it matters

Until the 1990s Madagascar was one of the world's largest coffee producers, and the island holds more distinct species of Coffea than anywhere else on the planet — a genetic library scientists now consider crucial to the future of coffee in a warming climate. MCC is one of the few private commercial endeavors actively rebuilding a Madagascar-to-cup specialty supply chain, alongside government research at FOFIFA, and is the operation most likely to determine whether Malagasy coffee re-enters the global specialty conversation as more than a curiosity.

Production

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cupping frequency
throughout harvest as fresh samples arrive
roastery location
Madagascar
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