ABOUT /
WE ARE ZEST SPECIALTY COFFEE ROASTERS, EXPLORING AND REPRESENTING THE FLAVOURFUL DIVERSITY OF COFFEE. We are innovators, educators and explorers. FROM THE AVID BARISTA TO THE EVERYDAY CONSUMER TO THE NEW CAFE OWNER, WE ARE A FAMILY – FRIENDLY, APPROACHABLE, RELIABLE, INFORMED.
Zest Specialty Coffee Roasters ARE a progressive, creative and eclectic team of coffee professionals who strive to deliver the best of specialty coffee to all Coffeekind.
We put all our efforts into building a consistent, reliable supply of great tasting coffee beans accredited by the best judges in the country. We have been repeatedly awarded for flavour, including the gold medal for filter in 2017 at the Golden Bean. Our tasting and profiling are passionately fastidious and we pride ourselves in the processes we have developed among the team to honour each step of the quest for consistency.
But it’s not just the coffee that is in good taste. It’s the people, the community, the relationships, the brand. From Zest Specialty Coffee Roasters and its people, you will never see anything in bad taste.
FLAVOUR
ZEST IS COFFEE. AND OUR COFFEE IS FLAVOUR
Flavour is a key pillar of Zest’s brand. We are fascinated with flavour. Exploring flavour, roasting flavour, and sharing flavour. Flavour that determines a thumbs up or a thumbs down. Flavour that sells the second cup.
QUALITY
ALWAYS SPECIALTY COFFEE. CONSISTENT. INNOVATIVE.
Delivery excellence to cafe owners, baristas, home brewers and industry experts. We source for quality, and we roast for quality. Artisan skills and cutting edge roasting tech.
EDUCATION
EDUCATION BREWS APPRETIATION. THE TRUSTED VOICE.
Zest loves to share knowledge to make great flavour coffee accessible to all coffeekind. Events, training, sensory experiences. Simplifying the rabbit hole, improving coffee quality and flavour discovery across Australia and the world.
Our Flavour.
Always specialty coffee. Always post blending. No short cuts on the road to optimal flavour.
/ ELEMENTS OF OUR BRAND
FLAVOUR TERRAINS
The coffee landscape is vast and diverse; a collection of different flavours, origins, stories and people.
Zest brings all these landscapes together, forging a colourful terrain filled with a sundry of personalities and flavours. Passionately sharing their love of flavour; inviting all coffee lovers to explore and discover.
COFFEEKIND
HUMANKIND. AND COFFEE. COMMUNITIES THAT SPAN THE GLOBE FROM FAR-FLUNG ORIGINS TO LOCAL LANEWAY CAFES.
The Zest team are itself, like the coffee flavour wheel, collectively we cover a kaleidoscope of culture, philosophies and passions. Our micro-cultural prototype inspires us to reach out inclusively to all.
THE PERFECT BALANCE
“THE BALANCE OF GREAT FLAVOUR AND GOOD TASTE ARE THE PILLARS OF OUR PURPOSE”
Zest is a humble balance of values ––flavour/taste, quality/value, people/culture and much, much more. Our balance in these areas showcases Zest as both the leader and innovator in the coffee market; recalling past experiences and unafraid to explore the future.
OUR CAFE PARTNERSHIPS /
WE HELP CAFES THRIVE.
OUR BRAND IS DRIVEN BY OUR APPROACH TO OUR WHOLESALE PARTNERS. EXCEPTIONAL AND CONSISTENT FLAVOUR IN THE CUP. DRIVING TRAFFIC TO YOUR CAFES. AND MAKING YOUR LIFE EASY AS A BARISTA OR CAFE OWNER.
Zest is invested in helping café partners grow their coffee businesses. We truly believe that the heart of a thriving cafe is flavourful coffee. Flavour that sells the second cup. Flavour that draws a once-off consumer to a regular. And flavour that create ambassadors for your cafes brand.
We have built a team of skilled, creative and experienced coffee professionals – enthusiastic about your success. Our mission is to build patronage for your café through providing your clients with wonderful flavour experiences, education, efficiency, training, knowledge sharing, developing coffee appreciation through our passion for flavour discovery.
And then customer service is key. A cafe without coffee is like a pub with no beer…or maybe worse.