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Coffee Preparation

Lavazza, the Italian coffee specialist, selects the finest quality beans at their source in exotic locations around the world and then prepares premium coffee blends that are ideal for use in professional espresso machines. This attention to detail is the secret behind Lavazza's guarantee of consistent in-cup excellence.

Full bodied blend of coffees with pleasantly balanced aromas of chocolate and dried fruit with a smooth after taste of bitter cocoa.

Lavazza Coffee

Our passion for coffee, its culture and processing.

Every year Lavazza selects the best coffees from plantations all over the world in order to create our specialised blends for the moka pot, with which we brew our breakfast coffee, the espresso we drink at the bar after lunch and the cappuccino from the vending machine, for our coffee break at work.

The sublime balance of each blend is obtained by mixing several types of coffee, which differ in terms of quality ( Arabica or Robusta), type of processing (washed or natural) and, lastly country of origin. All the specific benefits and characteristics of these different elements are integrated and compounded to produce a perfectly balanced coffee, with a distinctive flavour, aroma and body.

Selecting the best coffees

From plantations all around the world, Lavazza selects the best coffees to create the numerous blends that we enjoy every day.

The evergreen coffee plant grows between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.

It includes approximately 66 species, of which only two are cultivated and marketed. Coffea Arabica Coffea Canephora, known as Robusta.

Arabica

Coffea Arabica represents today two thirds of the world's coffee production. The plant is rather delicate and requires greater care than the Robusta variety, the beans are an elongated oval shape.

Coffea Canephora (Robusta) is widespread in Africa, Asia, Indonesia and Brazil, and accounts for approximately one third of the world's production.

Robusta

In Italy, coffee is prepared with a traditional moka pot or espresso machine. In the rest of the world, by contrast, coffee is prepared through the infusion method, as is the case with Turkish coffee, or through the filter method, as is the case with American-style coffee.