Us

Our Story

Lucia was 6 years old when she moved from Bucaramanga to Huila, where she grew up surrounded by coffee farms, appreciating the work of the coffee grower to harvest and pick the best cherries from the coffee plants, which would be carried from those beautiful hills at 2,000 meters above sea level down to the farms to be fermented and processed, yielding the beans that would go on to brew and serve the best cups of coffee to be enjoyed all over the world.

Miguel finished his studies in the United States and was hired by the largest private company in the world to work in the coffee division in Peru, Colombia and the United States. In fifteen years working in the coffee trade he not only traveled the world getting to know impressive coffee regions, but also had the chance to taste, enjoy and fall in love with the great coffees of Jamaica, Colombia, Peru, El Salvador, Hawaii, Kenya, Ethiopia and more.

Miguel and Lucia married in Bogotá in 2003 and, after seven years living in New York where Luciana, their eldest daughter, was born, they decided to move to Peru, where their second and third daughters, Michela and Valeria, were born.

NOS represents what we are: US — a family raised under the values and teachings of our parents. NOS represents the fruit of two different yet similar cultures. NOS is the union of two passions that brings together the best of two lives, two experiences, two achievements to give birth to something even better.

The support of great professionals, producers and friends from the coffee-growing world in Peru and Colombia was key to identifying the perfect regions and producers for our coffee, and in turn we selected the ideal varieties to achieve incomparable blends. That's how NOS was born, with four unions that deliver quality and consistency in a cup of coffee, four unions that deliver the best the coffee world has to offer us.

Our Coffees

The birth of NOS's four blends was a months-long process that began with the analysis and cupping of 100% Arabica coffees from different regions of Peru and Colombia. More than 100 specialty coffees from the main regions of both countries, with scores above 85 SCA points, were analyzed and cupped by Colombian and Peruvian Q Graders certified by the Specialty Coffee Association of America: Mrs. Lourdes Córdova, head judge of national coffee competitions, Miguel Viacava and Lucia Calvete.

Eleven Colombian coffees from producers located in Huila, Tolima, Antioquia and the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, together with ten Peruvian coffees from producers in Oxapampa, Pichanaki, Satipo, Huánuco, Cutervo, Pangoa and Chirinos, were chosen for the final cupping and blend selection carried out at the laboratory of the Peruvian Chamber of Coffee and Cocoa, where the eight coffees to be used for NOS harvest 2023-2024 were selected.

Quality and Consistency

The big question after selecting the origins and varieties to be used to offer these wonderful coffees is how we manage to maintain quality and consistency over time. In Peru today we have a very good supply of specialty coffees that keeps growing fast, helping to create a coffee culture in line with the effort of a large part of our coffee growers. The big problem is that many of the coffees the best roasters offer us come from small productions and it is hard, if not impossible, to find them consistently at points of sale, cafés or restaurants.

NOS has managed to build a purchasing and logistics system in Peru and Colombia that will guarantee the supply of the eight selected coffees throughout the 2023-2024 coffee year.

Thanks to our commercial agreement with Coffee Roasters SAS and to our company Lumiria Coffee Roasters, we have warehouses for parchment and green coffee with humidity and temperature controls in Neiva (Huila), Ibagué (Tolima) and Lima, where the beans will arrive according to production needs.

The commercial division of our company has purchased the volumes needed for our production from the eight coffee growers who supply us, using price-hedging systems tied to the options and futures markets of the Chicago commodities exchange to guarantee them the best available price for their product throughout the coffee year.

It should also be noted that our venture does not require producers to hold any kind of organic, fair trade, rainforest or similar certification, since in most cases these certifications bring high costs to the producer and the premiums they receive are insufficient, with the certifiers and roasters being the only ones to benefit from these processes. The producers chosen by NOS work hard to deliver the best their land, effort and processes can offer, and we stand beside them guaranteeing quality and consistency throughout the logistics and roasting of our coffees.