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La Cabra

Aarhus · Denmark

Single-origin coffee and K.H. Würtz stoneware cups

Why it belongs in ORBIS

La Cabra roasts in its home city of Aarhus, running cafés including Graven and its Aarhus O flagship. Single-origin lots come from a long-standing Colombian partner farm, paired with a K.H. Würtz stoneware collection.

La Cabra began as an Aarhus specialty roaster running a bakery and café, and it still roasts in its home city while operating several cafés there, including one called Graven and a flagship in Aarhus O. Its coffee program leans heavily on named single-farm relationships rather than blended, anonymous sourcing: a long-standing collaboration with Café Granja La Esperanza in Colombia supplies specific lots such as CGLE17 Natural and Washed from Finca Potosí and a Sudan Rume variety from Las Margaritas, while other seasonal releases come from Kenya's Kiangoi and additional Colombian farms in Nariño, grown by named producers like Leonardo Loaiza. Beyond coffee, La Cabra runs a design collaboration with Danish ceramicist K.H. Würtz, selling a line of stoneware cups and plates — the Copenhagen Cup, the Vesper, and graphite and Aarhus collections — that ties the roastery's identity to Danish design as much as to coffee sourcing. For a buyer comparing Nordic specialty roasters, the combination of a traceable, multi-year farm partnership and a named ceramicist collaboration is the distinguishing detail, separating La Cabra from roasters that sell coffee alone without an equivalent design or sourcing story attached to it.

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