Villa & Hut Blog

How do you measure success?

Is it by the amount of digits in your bank account, the title on your business card, the number on your bathroom scale, the zip code you live in or how many friends you have on Facebook?

It’s different for everyone. I can only describe the Coffee Experience at the Good Food & Wine Show in Melbourne as a huge ginormous success. Steve Agi and the crew at BeanScene put together quite a show – I actually think it was THE BEST part of the entire Good Food & Wine Show. It was high energy, lots of coffee and not to mention foxy guests on the stage like Manu Fieldel. There was the Latte Smackdown – to find out who made the best latte art in Melbourne. Eugene from Southwharf represented Villa & Hut in the Latte Smackdown and although he was not the final winner, he did an amazing job. We are all so proud of him.

It was great to meet our loyal customers who understand our passion for great coffee and convert those who haven’t tried our exclusive How’ya Bean Blend.

Watch people’s face as the experience our Vanilla Chai Latte for the first time and understand why we are famous for our Chai!

With your help at the show we were able to raise over $2005 for Vinnie’s CEO Sleepout. There is still time to donate (click here),

It was soo cool to be a apart of the first Coffee Experience at the Good Food & Wine Show in Australia.

The success was immeasurable.

Special thanks to everyone who helped make it happen!

Just published Villa & Hut’s Vnews Winter 2010 edition

* Please note that the correct website address for GroundsZero “The Official Recycling Program for the Coffee Industry” is www.groundszero.com.au

We scoured through the comments to choose our winner for the two free tickets to the Coffee Expo at the Good Food and Wine Show in Melbourne June 4, 5 & 6. And you know what sometimes it’s just not that easy.  So we decided why don’t we pick two winners.

Michael Dawson – You are the winner of 2 Free Tickets.

Michelle Skehan – You too are the winner of 2 Free Tickets.

Send me your address and will have them in the post – hurry up.  We’ll see you there!

We are giving away 2 FREE tickets to the Coffee Expo at the Good Food & Wine Show in Melbourne  – June 4, 5 or 6, 2010.  Why?  because we want you to find out first hand how great our coffee is.  Learn from the experts tips and techniques of the art of making coffee and so much more.  All you need to do is write a comment on the blog on why you want to go the Coffee Expo at the Good Food & Wine Show Melbourne.   Hurry up you have until Sunday at 6:00 pm to be eligible to win.

*UPDATE – Please note that the Competition was for 2010 and is closed.

The Coffee Expo pavilion will host the industry’s leading coffee and coffee related companies, providing an intimate environment within which visitors can interact with individual stands, sample products and learn about the richness and variety of coffee and other related products such as tea and chocolate.

A centre stage will be a core feature within the pavilion and will host a star-studded line up of Australia’s coffee experts who will be complimented by competitions, coffee classes, on-site roasting, cup tastings, world class barista demonstrations, interactive workshops and fashion parades. This unprecedented event in Australia is sure to be a fantastic opportunity for all those coffee lovers out there to have The Coffee Experience of a lifetime!

Villa & Hut will be at the Good Food & Wine Show 2010 – June 4, 5 & 6 in Melbourne.

For the first time ever…..we are roasting!

“Exclusive to the Melbourne Show, the NEW Coffee Experience offers coffee classes, competitions, on-site roasting, interactive workshops and even fashion parades.  Some of Australia’s coffee experts will be on hand to share their knowledge of coffee as you enjoy the samples.  It’s literally a show within a show.”

Stay tuned to find out more about Villa & Hut at the Coffee Expo at the Good Food and Wine Show.

The winner for the $1000 Shopping Spree is Fiona McAloney from Victoria (active VH blog subscriber).  Please contact us A.S.A.P. – will verify contact details.

Stay tuned more exciting contests and special offers to come!

Thank You to all our new subscribers.

The contest has been such a blast that we’re thinking of doing a give away where it’s a prize a day.  How does that sound?  Keep checking in we’re working out the details but will be announcing it soon.