Lozana Coffee was founded in 2024 by Santiago Robledo, a Colombian entrepreneur from the Antioquia region. After spending extended periods living between Colombia and the United Kingdom, Santiago began to notice something surprising: despite Antioquia being one of Colombia’s most historic coffee regions, its coffees were still relatively underrepresented within the UK specialty market.
Lozana Coffee was created with a simple mission — to build long-term relationships with producers across Antioquia who are committed to quality farming practices, and to connect their coffees directly with specialty roasters in the United Kingdom.
The idea for Lozana Coffee emerged naturally from Santiago’s personal life. In 2010, he met his future wife Lauren, who is from Wales, at a waterski competition in Italy. Nearly a decade later, after reconnecting while Lauren was travelling through Colombia, Santiago later spent time living in the UK, where he developed a deeper understanding of the British coffee market and its growing interest in origin-driven specialty coffees.
After marrying in 2023, Santiago and Lauren began building a life that moves between Colombia and the UK. Lozana Coffee was born from this unique position between two places — working directly at origin in the mountains of Antioquia while building long-term relationships with roasters across the UK.
Today, Lozana Coffee focuses on sourcing carefully selected coffees from farmers who are committed to quality, transparency, and sustainable long-term practices, helping bring the character of Antioquia’s coffee landscapes to a wider international audience.
For generations, smallholder farmers across its mountains have cultivated coffee as part of everyday rural life. Yet despite this long history, much of the region’s production has traditionally been sold into Colombia’s domestic market or into large commercial supply chains, meaning many excellent coffees from Antioquia have had limited visibility in international specialty markets.
Having grown up travelling throughout the region, Santiago developed a close familiarity with Antioquia’s landscapes and farming communities. Over time he began to realise that beyond the large commercial volumes typically associated with the region, there were also farmers producing coffees with remarkable quality and character.
Antioquia is an extraordinarily diverse territory. Within a single department the landscape ranges from warm tropical valleys to high Andean mountains where elevations exceed 4,000 metres. This diversity of altitude, climate and micro-regions contributes to a wide range of coffee profiles, each reflecting the specific conditions in which it was grown.
Our vision is to build long-term partnerships with coffee producers across Antioquia, creating relationships based on trust, transparency and shared growth. We believe that when farmers are paid fairly and given stability through pre-harvest agreements, they are able to focus on producing better coffee and investing in their farms for the future.
By offering prices above local market levels and working directly with producers, we aim to support farming practices that prioritise quality, sustainability and long-term viability.
At the same time, Lozana Coffee seeks to become a trusted importer of Colombian coffee within the United Kingdom — connecting dedicated producers with specialty roasters who value both exceptional coffee and clear origin relationships.
Our goal is not simply to move coffee across borders, but to strengthen the connection between the people who grow it and the people who roast it.
