Family History

It began over a hundred years ago with our ancestors, José María and Ramón Gaviña. Seeking a better life, the two brothers left their homeland in the Basque region of Spain and traveled to the rich coffee-bearing soil of the southern Cuban mountains. It was on the productive land that their plantation, Hacienda Buenos Aires, began its reputation as the center of the region's coffee community.

But Hacienda Buenos Aires produced more than just the finest coffee in the land. Our father Don Francisco was born there. As a boy, he worked in the fields with his own father, watching and learning the secrets of growing the highest quality coffee. He spent hours upon hours helping the field hands sow the seeds and urging the little plants to grow. Don Francisco also learned how to pick and dry the beans and slowly, over time, how to judge which were the very best quality and which were not. From that day on, only the highest quality beans are ever chosen for the F. Gaviña & Sons, Inc. brands.

These traditions of passion and quality live on to this day. Don Francisco's four children - José, Leonor, Pedro, and Paco - who also grew up on the plantation, learned the art of growing coffee from their father. The company, now in America, reaps the benefits that come from this family's experience on their land.

Through selecting the finest beans from around the world, cupping each sample as it arrives, and making sure the roasting is perfect, the Gaviñas express their passion for coffee. It is rare, indeed, for a coffee to come from a family company that pioneered one of the early coffee plantations. It is even more rare to find a coffee company managed by people born and raised in the artful profession. Coffee is our passion and Don Francisco’s is our pride. It has to be; our father’s name is on it.