Stowe Mountain Lodge agreed, Vermont Artisan is their best choice for coffee & tea! We are now offered exclusively throughout the resort. www.stowemountainlodge.com

Hooray for us! We made Wine Spectator's Top 100 Products for 2007!Bronz Medalists! We did it again, placed top three in the Inational Roast Master Competition....think we're the only roaster to place top three, 2 years in a row. Great Job Brent!Visit our Espresso Bar!  We've joined forces with the University of Vermont to open a first ever Espresso Bar in the new Davis Student Center! Stop by for a warm cappuccino in a cozy chair by the fire..... Main Street, UVM Campus, Burlington, Vermont.

Silver Medalists!  in the first annual 2006 Roast Master Competition held during the SCAA (www.scaa.org) annual convention. Vermont Artisan placed second out of all the coffees submitted from coast to coast. Kudos to our fabulous Roaster - Brent Ballard!

Go to www.BlackRiverActionTeam.com and see what can happen with just passion and a bit of organizational skills. We've been keeping Kelly and her volunteers warm since 2004! VPR - We are proud to support Vermont Public Radio all year through by energizing their staff and volunteers with our coffee, tea and chocolate.  Visit www.vpr.org and support public radio!
 
!Sante Magazine for Chefs continues to give us the thumbs up featuring our fabulous Fair Trade certified organic coffees in their magazine  www.santemagazine.com Ogden Publications, Mother Earth News found our product exceptional enough to put their name on them. Look for 5 varieties of FairTrade and Organic teas in their publication www.motherearthnews.com .
About Us: Vermont Artisan Coffee & Tea provides artisan roast coffees and exotic teas to both retail and food service markets throughout the United States. Owned and operated by Mané Alves, a native of Lisbon, Portugal who has worked in the wine and coffee industries for the past 18 years. Mané  travels extensively to coffee producing countries throughout Central America, South America and Asia where he speaks and teaches seminars in their native languages on coffee production and quality standards. With each trip Mané has nurtured direct relationships with the farms and families who cultivate the very products we sell. 

We believe in Local First. Although coffee isn't grown here, we purchase all our other needs as close to home as possible and embrace our local community by donating weekly to our local food shelf, supporting local fund drives with product and services, working with our high school for employment outreach, gifting all compostable materials to local farmers and more.

Vermont Artisan is proud to be a member of: Vermont Fresh Network, Vermont Specialty Foods Association, Vermont Chamber of Commerce, The Specialty Coffee Association of America, and the Roasters Guild. We are a certified organic processor as certified by VOF.

This is Brent Ballard, our Coffee Roaster. Brent has been working in the food industry most of his adult life.  As a result, he has a refined pallette and nose and a heightened appreciation for fine food, wine and of course, coffee. Brent has been roasting with us for four years now. He loves what he does, and we do too! Send him your thanks, questions or just a hello ....we'll pass it along!

At Vermont Artisan, we have a resolute dedication to quality and freshness
and unwavering commitment to providing a product unsurpassed by all other brands.

• We are environmentally conscious and chose our packaging specifically to promote reuse and recycle.
• We buy direct, supporting only farms with the utmost respect and care for their people, their product, their land and their environment.
• We buy only premium, single-estate coffee & tea. Others say it but we mean it ~ we'll only buy beans rating highest on the Specialty Coffee Grading Scale.
• All of our products undergo careful quality, social and environmental inspection provided by Coffee Lab International www.coffeelab.com  
• We roast, pack and ship to order, nothings ever wharehoused.
• Our coffees share a “roast date” for freshness. Our teas share a "pack date". So whether you buy our product directly from us or find it in your favorite store or restaurant, it’ll be the very best it can be .