Lucca Blend: Italian Roast

They called it an experiment. The experiment liberated Italy.

Their story began not in Italy, but in the American South — at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, an isolated desert outpost where the largest concentration of Black soldiers in the country trained for nearly two years before being deemed ready. Known as Buffalo Soldiers in reference to 19th-century African American cavalrymen, the 92nd Infantry Division was a segregated unit carrying a legacy older than the war itself. 

They broke through the Gothic Line. They liberated cities. They bled for a country that put them at the back of the bus and treated them second class citizens.

The people of Lucca kept saying it for decades after: the Buffalo Soldiers gave them their freedom. The city commemorates its liberation by the 92nd Infantry Division every year in September. The Tuscans gave these men a name — Giganti Buoni. The Good Giants.  Italy never forgot. We don't either.

The Lucca Blend is an Italian Roast — the darkest, most uncompromising roast in the tradition — built the way Italy always has: Arabica and Robusta, together, without apology. The Arabica brings what these men deserved and were long denied — refinement, depth, quiet complexity. Slow-grown, layered sweetness that rewards patience. The Robusta brings what they actually carried — unyielding strength, dense body, and a crema as thick as the courage it took to cross the Arno under fire. Pushed through a full Italian roast, the two become one: bold on the front, warm through the middle, long on the finish.

An extra dark oily roast made from Central American coffees for deep, heavy coffee flavor.

Notes of bittersweet dark chocolate, smoked chestnut, charred caramel, and Tuscan earth.