Café Galletti

Overview

Café Galletti was founded in 2010 by Ena Galletti and her husband as a vertically integrated specialty exporter and roaster working with smallholder Ecuadorian producers. The company sources from nearly 400 farms — roughly 320 of them run by women, since male family members typically migrate for mining work — and operates a dry mill in Quito where pergamino is hulled and sorted before either roasting or export. The café side serves single-origin roasts identified by region (Loja Montaña, Amazonas, Catedral, Bosque Nublado, Mujeres) at flagship locations including González Suárez and a presence near Teatro Bolivar in the historic center, and the brand's bagged retail line is widely available through Ecuadorian supermarkets.

Known for

• Founded 2010 in Quito by Ena Galletti and her husband
• Network of nearly 400 Ecuadorian smallholder producers (~320 women-led farms)
• Own dry mill in Quito for hulling and sorting pergamino
• Single-origin retail line by region: Montaña (Loja), Amazonas, Bosque Nublado, Mujeres, Catedral
• Multiple Quito cafés including González Suárez flagship and Teatro Bolivar/historic center location

Why it matters

Café Galletti is the most established specialty coffee roaster in Ecuador and one of the country's most important specialty exporters, supplying both a domestic retail market and international roasters. The company has been instrumental in connecting Ecuadorian smallholders — particularly women — to the global specialty market at a moment when the country's coffee output had collapsed by nearly 90% over two decades. Multiple guides cite Café Galletti as one of the founding pioneers of Quito's specialty movement.

Production

destoning

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head roaster

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color sorting

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roaster machine

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filter equipment

V60, AeroPress

cupping frequency

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roastery location

Quito, Ecuador (with dry mill in same city)

espresso equipment

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annual volume tonnes

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Café

Av. González Suárez N27-396, Quito

Sources

• https://cafegalletti.com/en/
• https://coffeehunter.com/the-biodiverse-ecuador-a-new-coffee-horizon/
• https://coffeeandfarmer.wordpress.com/2016/02/20/ena-galletti-the-woman-in-coffee-ecuador/
• https://perfectdailygrind.com/2016/06/5-reasons-why-specialty-coffee-is-taking-off-in-ecuador/
• https://stir-tea-coffee.com/features/ecuador-emerges-as-lauded-andes-origin/
• https://www.expatecuador.com/guides/coffee-guide-ecuador