7Gr. Kaffee

7Gr. Kaffee is a coffee roaster in Milan, founded in 2009 by four sisters from a family long active in Italian coffee roasting. The name refers to the seven grams of ground coffee behind a single espresso. It roasts its own 7Gr. blends and single origins, plus the Lot Zero specialty line launched in 2018.

The house range is built around espresso blends and the four single origins that go into them: a Brasile Santos, a Colombia Supremo, an Etiopia Sidamo and an India Kaapi Royale. Those origins are also sold on their own, roasted separately so drinkers can taste what each one adds to a blend, and they work in espresso as well as filter. The site describes the Sidamo through its citrus and floral acidity and the Colombia Supremo as rounder, with malic acidity.

Lot Zero is where the specialty work sits: microlots, fully traceable coffees, single origins and blends, some of them meant for brewing methods other than espresso. Chiara Bergonzi, an SCA trainer and co-founder of Lot Zero, selects and blends these coffees and follows production and roasting. Beyond the classic four origins, the catalog reaches Ethiopia, Kenya, Costa Rica, Indonesia and Jamaica, with anaerobic lots and decaffeinated options such as Colombia Tumbaga Decaffeinato.