When risk is reward… San Ignacio, Peru, October 2018 was when we began our Project Bosques Verdes experiments. The nature of an experiment is risk (and expectation). And, while Zest absorbed all risk for the...

Tigerous is Caleb’s first café, which he runs with his wife Abby, a certified nutritionist (and Caleb’s latest barista protégé).  However new he is to owning a café, it’s definitely not Caleb’s first rodeo. The...

“….On the drive from the airport up to San Ignacio, you pass terrain that changes every 5 minutes. There are 100s of hectares of bright green rice (arroz) grown within the valleys and above, barren...

Refresh: What is a micro-lot? It’s actually a pretty hard thing to define simply, and that’s what we love about these exotic little lots. Let’s break down the etymology first ––‘micro’ as in small, ‘lot’...

In case you didn’t know, we are off to gorgeous mountains of Peru this week to facilitate another series of flavour creation experiments.

"Life in Northern Sumatra is leisurely. Good conversation, storytelling and humour will keep you in high standing with the locals. Not dis-similar to my hometown in Ireland, where I'd been, just a couple of days...

Coffee Origin video in Indonesia

A Story of Origin in Papua New Guinea Project Raggiana is creating flavour, building relationships and discovering the potential of Papua New Guinea coffee by way of producing small coffee lots (microlots). Specifically, it is...

New cafe profile: Walk Don't Run in ArmadaleNext time you’re in Armadale (or really make the trip even if you aren’t anywhere near it) walk, don’t run, and drop in and seat yourself in the...

Aussie farmers are indeed doing it tough in the devastating drought conditions and the team at Zest was very glad to do our little bit towards bringing in some relief for farming families and their...