We appreciate your interest in our full line of fine, specialty-grade green coffees. We carry over 70 different coffees from the finest crops available world-wide, and specialize in serving the small to medium-sized wholesale and retail coffee roaster throughout the United States. We also offer certified Organic coffees, Fair Trade Certified coffees, shade grown coffees and a full line of decafs. A full line of coffees is carried on both the east coast (Hillside, New Jersey) and west coast (Oakland, California) to best serve you, and we have no minimum orders.

Vournas Coffee Trading provides an absolute committment to our customers. We can be relied upon not only to provide the highest quality coffees in the world on a consistent basis, but to deliver the finest, "old-world" style customer service.

As you know, from year to year coffee changes constantly, sometimes even within the same crop! To address this, we sample roast and cup various coffees daily at our office's sample roasting and cupping facility to ensure that we obtain only "the best of the best" coffees for you, our valued customers.

It is quality coffee and quality service that can always be counted on - you have our family name behind our commitment!

Call us at (800) 761-JAVA to discuss your coffee needs. We look forward to helping you enjoy the world's finest specialty coffees, and we thank you in advance for your interest!

Vournas Coffee Trading is a member of and is certified by the following organizations:

• Pacific Coast Coffee Association
• Specialty Coffee Association of America
• TransFair USA
• Swiss Water
• Rainforest Alliance

Andrew Vournas has been in specialty green coffee since 1988. 20 years in Green!  He has learned the coffee trade from the ground up, and has significant experience in warehousing, storage, delivering, cupping, importing, brokering and selling specialty green coffee. He has roasted in both retail and wholesale operations on a variety of commercial and sample roasters. He has assisted many retail and wholesale roasters in setting up their specialty coffee programs and business plans, as well as developing specific blends for their customers. Andrew has traveled extensively throughout numerous coffee source countries in Central America, South America, the Caribbean, and the Pacific Rim. He has spoken at many coffee training seminars and conventions, has been selected as an International Jury cupping judge with the Cup of Excellence (Bolivia and Colombia), with the Pacific Coast Coffee Association has organized large cupping competitions, and recently completed two terms of service on the Board of Directors of the Pacific Coast Coffee Association.

He is available to serve you from our Westlake Village, California, office at (800) 761-5282 or (818) 879-1443.

Michael Vournas started in specialty green coffee importing in January 2002.  Drawn to the industry by coffee tales told to him by his brother, Andrew, and his love of a great cup of freshly roasted coffee, he previously worked in and managed several restaurants in the southern California area and has extensive public service experience at the city, county and federal levels of government.  He has traveled throughout most of the United States, a large portion of western Europe, Canada, northern Africa, and Australia, as well as Papua New Guinea, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Mexico and Hawaii. He enjoys assisting new roasters, cupping new coffees, and hunting down great coffees in source countries.  He recently was honored by the Pacific Coast Coffee Association (PCCA) as the 2006 Cupper of the Year, through the annual Pete McLaughlin Memorial Cupping Competition.  He has also served as a member of the International Jury with the Cup of Excellence (Nicaragua 2007). 

Michael is available to serve you from our headquarters office in Westlake Village, California, at (800) 761-5282 or (818) 879-1443.

Kari O'Hagan joined our team back in October 2004.  Time flies!  Kari started back then as our office assistant, and all of you know how amazingly helpful and professional she handles her position.  We have known Kari for years and greatly appreciate the fantastic job she does for us.  With our relocation to Westlake Village we were worried (to put it mildly) that she would not be able to make the move and stay with us.  But, being of young and adventurous spirit, Kari and her family decided to make the move to southern California!  We are grateful. Quite frankly, we think she is irreplaceable!  Here in Westlake Village, Kari is our office coordinator, and she handles just about everything that happens here, including payables, receivables, traffic, order processing and customer service.  Previously, she worked at the national customer service center for a major, international clothing corporation.  (Their loss-Our gain!)  We know you will find her to be beyond helpful and a fantastic resource for all things Vournas Coffee.  We congratulate her on her promotion, and welcome her to sunny southern California.

The new voice you might hear the next time you call could be the second generation of the Vournas Coffee Trading family!  Christina Vournas has the unique title of being the first of the second generation of Vournas' to take a position at our family owned company.  Christina, Mike's middle daughter, will be helping us out part-time with many varied duties including phones, samples, sample roasting, filing and being our office assistant.  She is a junior in high school and an avid high school and competitive club water polo goalie and 2 meter player.  Out of the water, you will find her to be cheerful, energetic, and happy to assist you and learn more about the coffee world.  Feel free to introduce yourself to the second generation of Vournas Coffee Trading.  I know Christina is very excited at the opportunity to role up her sleeves, meet people in the coffee world, and learn everything she can about specialty green coffee.