Like many, the passion started at home with a second-hand espresso machine from the flea market about 15 years ago.

No, from the beginning we had our roaster (Probat 5 kg)

In the meantime, we roast on a Diederich 12 kg but if we have large orders or annual closures, we sometimes roast larger batches at a roaster friend's shop.

Escape the city life for a while because I miss nature...

No, because in 15 years I have had several very good cups of coffee.

What I do remember is the first time I smelt freshly ground coffee as a child, when my grandfather ground it freshly.

This memory and smell have always stayed with me.

Look no further ... on our facade of the bar and roastery is the Kolonel of Charlotte de Cock.

"Live in the present, not in the past, but don't forget where you come from!"

I moved to Italy after finishing high school as I felt I needed a life experience away from home.

Italy has taught me a lot in the meantime.

Besides shaping me into a strong and independent woman, Italy gave me an insight into the value of tradition and culture and showed me how to be successful without ever forgetting how to enjoy life.

No doubt I love this country as if it is my own.

Indeed, the Italians are a few years behind many other European countries when it comes to coffee culture mainly due to the strong values of tradition.

But I can assure you that also here the specialty coffee mentality is slowly becoming more contagious.

I got acquainted with the specialty coffee world through le Piantagioni del Caffè.

I was already familiar with coffee, but by bringing me to the coffee farms in the countries of origin they allowed me to eat the cherry from the coffee plant and my enthusiasm for this wonderful and natural product simply exploded.

This exciting experience put all the values of a premium coffee world together, and it is my personal goal, and our company's aim, to make this amazing coffee culture more familiar in Italy and abroad.

Single Estate coffee is the exact translation of Le Piantagioni del Caffè, and this is exactly what we do.

We source our coffees directly at the farms in the countries of origin.

At Le Piantagioni del Caffè, we’ve been roasting single-estate coffee beans since 1994 and what makes us different as a coffee roaster is our direct relationship with the producers in the countries of origin: we travel there in person to get to know them and their coffee where it all begins, where the beans are grown.

We work with the farmers and exchange information to create products we know will give their very best in the cup, taking our coffee lovers on an imaginary voyage to the estate.

As said here above, in the past years Italians have also been influenced by the Specialty coffee trend which is more and more appreciated.

As a premium coffee roastery, we must divulge the culture of coffee, to make it more comprehensible, direct, real, in other words, charmingly drinkable.

Premium espresso coffee is part of this, but also light-roasted coffee.

We want Specialty coffee to get out of the niche and involve an ever-wider panorama of potential enthusiasts.

We believe coffee should represent friendliness, joy, understandability, and drinkability.

Specialty coffee has to be cool, trendy, and pop.

With our coffees, we aim at involving not only the people who are already passionate about coffee, but also those consumers who are looking for something more, yet they just drink coffee as an energizing drink, because they have never been shown how much involving and intriguing the universe of coffee can be.

We want to involve all those who have always felt attracted to this world but remained far from it, on the side-lines, due to the arrogance and excessive technicalities that unfortunately often surround and accompany Specialty coffee.

We created our whole coffee concept for passionate people who look for more than mass products and value the quality and craftsmanship underlying any artisan creation.

Our “Disruptive" coffee line is intended to break all the rules and to think outside the box.

With these coffees - real gems - the aim is to make "POP" the highest quality coffee.

This is achieved through the creation of a cool product that becomes a trendy product, a beautiful product to have and to give as a gift.

The design recalls and defines the purpose of this line: the highest quality coffee is not just a thing for NERDS or people obsessed with coffee, a kind of difficult product to approach.

It can be a fun product, exciting, trendy, and suitable for people who want to have fun and learn about the culture of coffee.

This is why the use of Pop Art: an immediate, striking feature that tells complex emotions with simplicity.

Give coffee a little more attention.

Everyone drinks coffee but few people know about it.

When opening a coffee bag, smell the beans, and look at the beans.

Read what is written on the bag and enjoy the special flavors and the uniqueness every coffee has to offer you.

Our city used to be beautiful before World War 2.

Unfortunately, the majority of nice buildings were destroyed during the war but we still have something nice and this “something” is the sea.

We are lucky to have the Tyrrhenia Sea (which is part of the Mediterranean Sea) and a long, gorgeous, reddish-rocky coast.

In addition to this, we offer fantastic food which I invite you to come and enjoy.

Livorno is known for two very typical dishes: Cacciucco which is a fish soup made with poor fish, bread, red pepper, tomato, and mussels, and 5&5 which is another poor dish made of a sandwich containing chickpeas called “torta”.

We started as a coffee bar in 2012 and after a few years, we decided that Finland needs a proper roastery so we opened our roastery in 2014.

The coffee bar is closed these days.

Good Life Coffee's purpose is to bring good life to all the people along the coffee chain, and we want to do things with smiles on our faces and do what we love.

That is Good Life!

Lauri, our founder is living his good life on the saddle of his bicycle, going around Helsinki to eat and drink.

He also plays in the local ice hockey beer league team as a defenseman.

Aleksi on the other hand packs his bags and goes fly-fishing in the Lapland or drives a go-kart.

We both have kids so they are of course big part of the good life and they bring good balance to the work side.

To be honest we didn’t plan it.

We bought coffees that we really enjoyed and at some point found out that almost all are natural or honey :D

And Covid19 has also had an impact on how much we can buy coffee so we haven’t had a chance to bring new coffee as much as we would have wanted.

The next 4 coffees that should come in a month or two are all washed!

Yes!

The advice is to brew it.

Use Google or YouTube and find some good advice.

If I’d need to give one advice it would be: ” Use a scale for measuring beans”.

“Thanks for ordering Good Life Coffee and greetings from Helsinki, Finland!

This Covid thing will be done soon, but stay safe until that.

And remember to Avoid Bad Life!"