Revealing the identity of each lot,
with the greatest fidelity.
Knowledge from the mountains, extended by today's means.
Revealing,
never transform.
SCA protocol · 100 points
The threshold that defines a specialty coffee. Each lot then carries its actual score on its own sheet.
Everything starts from what the cherry already carries
We choose
on site.
Season after season with the producing families. A direct link, a fairer exchange and exact knowledge of what each plot yielded that year.
A year of patience.
Twelve minutes of fire.
What the mountain teaches,
the workshop extends.
Three trades under one roof — direct sourcing at origin, green coffee expertise, roasting in France — to honour the fidelity of each terroir.
SCA Certified · Specialty Coffee Association
Three centuries of written records.
Jean de La Roque publishes in Paris Voyage de l'Arabie heureuse — the first detailed French account of coffee's Yemen, with an added memoir on the tree and the fruit.
The Danish expedition to Arabia leaves Copenhagen. Its draughtsman, Georg Wilhelm Baurenfeind, will depict mountain women at work among the coffee trees.
A map of the port of Mocha is published — the gateway through which Yemeni coffee then reached the whole world.
A letter from the French embassy in London acknowledges receipt of a bale of Mocha coffee, “arrived in good condition”.
Official correspondence deals with the costs of exporting Yemeni coffee to Egypt.
TORIFA picks up this thread: the same mountains, the same families, and lots named down to the village.
Three stages, one standard.
Selecting
Each harvest is judged on its own. We build the offer from what the mountain has truly given.
Understand
Each lot is analysed, tasted and recorded. The instrument illuminates, heritage guides.
Revealing
In our workshop in France, we roast each coffee in small batches. We adapt the roast to each lot to bring out its aromas and character.
Water, cut into the rock — the first resource of the terraces
These are not our words.
It is their work.
A producer goes to his farm, picks the cherries by hand and works his plot.
They take the floor.
Producers talk about their work and our collaboration.
3 minutes · French subtitles
