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Montevideo · Uruguay

MVD Roaster

Since 2014 · Alvaro Planzo

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Overview

MVD Roaster was founded in Montevideo in 2014 by Alvaro Planzo, who had become one of the first SCAE-certified Uruguayan baristas in 2013 after studying with World Barista Championship judge Juan Mario Carvajal. MVD pioneered third-wave coffee in a country where mate dominates and the Spanish-influenced torrefacto roast — sugar burned into low-grade beans — was the cafe norm, and now supplies cafes and high-profile restaurants across Uruguay including chef Francis Mallmann's Garzón.

Known for

  • Founded 2014 by Alvaro Planzo — Uruguay's first dedicated specialty roaster
  • Founder one of the first four SCAE-certified Uruguayans (2013)
  • Supplier to chef Francis Mallmann's restaurant Garzón and to La Madriguera cafe
  • Trained Uruguay's first wave of certified baristas — 60+ certifications between May and December 2017
  • Anchor partner of Café Nomade and La Farmacia in spreading Montevideo's third wave

Why it matters

Uruguay is one of the few countries in Latin America that grows no coffee — its climate is too cool — and yerba mate is the cultural drink, so a domestic specialty industry had to be built from scratch, against a Spanish-coffee inheritance of torrefacto roast. MVD is the operation that did the building: the supplier behind most early Montevideo specialty cafes, the trainer behind the country's first wave of SCA-certified baristas, and the reason chef-driven destinations like Garzón could pour Uruguayan-roasted specialty rather than imports.

Production

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head roaster
Alvaro Planzo
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roastery location
Montevideo, Uruguay
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Café

Montevideo (La Tostaduria)

Recognitions

  • Founder Alvaro Planzo — one of the first four SCA-certified Uruguayans (2013)

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