In the 1780s, Haiti was the world's leading producer of coffee. So revered was the smooth, unique taste of its coffee that Napoleon angrily shouted, "Damn coffee! Damn colonies!" once he learned of his troops' final defeat to regain the lucrative colony after its self-liberating slave rebellion. The only successful slave uprising in history to end with the foundation of a new country in 1804.

For the past three centuries, Haiti's coffee-growing methods have remained essentially unchanged. Hand cultivated in the same ways of old. Haitian coffee is a generations-old tradition deeply ingrained in our history, culture, and lifestyle.