Cuvée Coffee

Building our roasting and cold brew facilities in Spicewood was an amazing decision. We're super-close to downtown Austin, where a lot of our customers and team members live, but far enough outside the city to have a coffee ranch with room to build a bonfire, BBQ some brisket, or drink beers surrounded by the rolling hills.

Back in 1998, when Carl Staub introduced me to roasting, his advice was to pay more money for specialty green coffee, so I did, too. That was my intro to the product. Soon after, the term grew into a community of people passionate about changing the perception of coffee. So specialty coffee, the product and industry, were instrumental in shaping Cuvee into the high-quality, consumer-friendly company we are today.

Don't seek the approval of your peers. For some reason, young coffee roasters (and I was one) tend to worry about what other roasters might think. Don't market to or make decisions based on what other roasters might think because they’re not the ones buying your coffee!