Don't miss Owner Chris Chantler on TV8 on Christmas Eve morning as he discusses Vail Mountain Coffee & Tea Company and their show with host Kirk Keller on "Wanna-Be Chef" airing December 24, 2010 at 10:30 am MST. Learn about the coffee roasting process and the history of teas from around the world. Also - don't miss our secret to making the perfect cup of coffee at home!
Vail Mountain Coffee & Tea Company – quality, freshness and sustainability with 20 years experience in the coffee and tea industries. For more information, please call (970) 827-4008 or visit http://www.vailcoffee.com/.
Vail Mountain Coffee & Tea Company has over 20 years experience providing quality, freshness and sustainability in the coffee and tea industries.
Monday, December 13, 2010
Friday, December 10, 2010
Help Vail Mountain Coffee & Tea Company Give Back This Holiday Season!
At Vail Mountain Coffee & Tea Company, we celebrate the holidays by giving back. When you are shopping for the perfect gift for the coffee or tea lover this holiday season, visit www.vailcoffee.com VMCT will donate $1 per bag of coffee on all online orders to Socially Conscious Coffee.
Socially Conscious Coffee® (SCC) is a nonprofit organization that creates sustainable prosperity with Brazilian coffee harvesters, their families, and their communities through education, health care, and environmental stewardship. Behind nearly 400 billion cups of coffee consumed each year is the largest and poorest group of people in the coffee industry: harvesters and their families. These harvesters lack education, health care, food, and safe drinking water. This lack of resources, compounded by environmental degradation, causes a continual cycle of illiteracy, poor health and poverty.
SCC created a model that has proven to be very successful in breaking this cycle. In 2004, SCC built the Centro Rural Educafé in Portuguese, in Bahia, Brazil. SCC uses this school and community center to educate the region’s children as well as educating the entire community on health and hygiene practices, disease prevention, water and food safety, and environmental stewardship. As discussed in The Economist magazine, schools in Brazil are improving but too slowly. SCC is doing everything we can to assist in speeding up the process, one, teacher, one student and one school at a time.Please help both Vail Mountain Coffee & Tea Company and Socially Conscious Coffee in creating sustainable prosperity for coffee harvesters, their families, and their communities around the world.
$1 from each bag of coffee ordered on www.vailcoffee.com
now through December 31, 2010 will be donated to Socially Conscious Coffee
Please keep others less fortunate in mind during your holiday shopping. Personalize your gift or purchase our infamous Holiday Blend at Vail Mountain Coffee & Tea Company for your friends, co-workers and family.
We appreciate your business and your support of Socially Conscious Coffee, and wish you a wonderful holiday season.
Sincerely,
Chris and Craig
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Check out Vail Mountain Coffee & Tea Company on TV8
Do you wanna be a chef? Do you like coffee or tea, or both? Do you want to know how to make the perfect cup of coffee? Then be sure to catch Vail Mountain Coffee & Tea Company's co-owners, Chris Chantler and Craig Arseneau, on TV8's "Wanna Be Chef" on December 24!
The show's host, Kirk Keller, has over 25 years experience hosting and producing television shows across the United States. Keller brings "Wanna Be Chef" to the Vail Valley - a perfect place to explore the amazing gastronomy here. With Vail's four and five star dining establishments, it is a haven for foodies.
On the show, Vail Mountain Coffee & Tea explores the roasting process, the differences in coffees from around the world, and scratches the surface of the over 40 loose leaf teas available through their company. You'll also learn how to make the perfect cup of coffee at home.
The show's host, Kirk Keller, has over 25 years experience hosting and producing television shows across the United States. Keller brings "Wanna Be Chef" to the Vail Valley - a perfect place to explore the amazing gastronomy here. With Vail's four and five star dining establishments, it is a haven for foodies.
On the show, Vail Mountain Coffee & Tea explores the roasting process, the differences in coffees from around the world, and scratches the surface of the over 40 loose leaf teas available through their company. You'll also learn how to make the perfect cup of coffee at home.
Vail Mountain Coffee & Tea Company – quality, freshness and sustainability with 20 years experience in the coffee and tea industries. For more information, please call (970) 827-4008 or visit http://www.vailcoffee.com/.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Vail Resorts Offers Deals for 2010-2011 Season
Vail Resorts 2010-2011 ‘Best for Less’ Deals
04 October 2010Vail Resorts has always been committed to offering products at attractive price points and there are many ways to save on a winter vacation with Vail Resorts. This season’s ‘Best for Less’ offers feature deals and offers designed to provide skiers and riders the best value on lift tickets, rental equipment, ski lessons, dining, lodging and more for their ski vacation.
Lift Tickets and Season Passes
Vail Resorts also offers an array of season pass products that provide skiers and riders with the best value in the ski industry. At, $619 the Epic Pass provides unlimited, unrestricted access to six world-class resorts including Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone and Heavenly – as well as at Arapahoe Basin and the new Epic 7-Pack is a seven-day, unrestricted ticket that skiers and snowboarders can use at any one of Vail Resorts’ five mountain resorts and Arapahoe Basin anytime during the season for a price of $469—which works out to be $67 per day. The Epic 7-pack differs from a seven-day lift ticket because it can be used any time during the season, from beginning to end. The Summit Pass provides unlimited lift access to the top Summit County resorts - Breckenridge, Keystone and Arapahoe Basin - without date restrictions at $419 for adults. For more information, visit http://www.epicpass.com/.
Lowest Price Guarantee on Lift TicketsIt’s simple! When you purchase your lift tickets to Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone or Heavenly in advance through one of the Vail Resorts Official Ticket Outlets (this website or by calling a Vail Resorts reservation center) you are guaranteed the best price on our lift tickets. Visit http://www.snow.com/ for more information.
Lodging Packages
Ski Free Stay FreePay for three nights lodging and two days of skiing and receive one extra night and day of skiing free! That's a savings of almost 30%. Prices start as low as $315 per person!
Valid: November 18, 2010 - April 25, 2011 visit http://www.snow.com/ for more information.
Holidays On UsVail Resorts is giving travelers a free night of lodging on the season’s most popular holidays – Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Day, President’s Day and Easter Sunday – in the Company’s managed ski resort condos and townhomes or the nine elegant RockResort properties in Vail, Aspen, Keystone, Beaver Creek, Santa Fe, St. Lucia and Jackson Hole. Book by October 31, 2010 and the package is restricted and the guest must stay five consecutive nights to receive the holiday night free. http://www.holidaysonus.com/
Ski SchoolThe Adventure Sessions: If Ski School had Recess this would be it! For $129 guests can explore the mountain and maximize their enjoyment on the slopes with an expert guide from the Ski & Ride Schools at all five resorts. Unlike more formal ski and ride school lessons, the new Adventure Sessions are more loosely structured, focusing on whatever the group chooses such as bumps, bowls, cruisers or powder, while still providing tips on how to improve their skiing and riding. The program is geared towards intermediate and expert level skiers and riders who are looking for more adventure, a locals’ view of the mountain and less of an instruction and class setting of a standard ski school class.
Ultimate 4: Apremium group lesson program for children ages 3–12 years with only 4 children per instructor. Your kids will be able to explore the mountain all day long while fine tuning their skills in a small-group setting, starting at $210*.
On Mountain Dining
Lunch for Less“Lunch for Less” is a value meal that is offered across all five resorts for $9.95 and includes an entrée, side dish and a beverage. The Lunch for Less meal may vary from day to day and from resort to resort and include a wrap and soup one day or a pasta and salad the next. It’s the perfect way to refuel on the slopes and experience a variety of menu offerings over a multi-day visit.
Mountain Meal Card
Vail Resorts guests can take advantage of a convenient, pre-paid Mountain Meal Card which offers added value with an extra 10 or 20-percent dollar value based upon the amount purchased. For the first $100 purchased, guests will receive a 10 percent additional value. For values of $200 and up, 20 percent of the total will be automatically loaded on to the card. The Mountain Meal Card must be pre-purchased in advance prior to arrival at the resort.
Rent Equipment Online & Save up to 20% OffReserve your ski and snowboard rentals online and save up to 20% off our 2010-2011 walk-in rates. Rent everything you need at your convenience – online – and it'll be waiting for you the rental shop at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone and Heavenly Resorts. Visit http://www.rentskis.com/ for more information
Three for Free Activities at KeystoneAt Keystone choose Three Activities for Free when you stay at Keystone. Select three free activities during your stay. Activity choices include: Free night ski on day of arrival, scenic sleigh ride, NASTAR racing, ice rink admission, Nordic trail admission and more. Visit http://www.keystoneresort.com/
Contact(s):
| Kate Lessman phone: (303) 404-1871 |
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
Vail Daily: Vail Mountain Coffee & Tea Company Celebrates 20 Years
EAGLE COUNTY — Chris Chantler and Craig Arseneau had a simple, but big, idea — Vail needed better coffee.
The partners came to the early realization that people would pay for options to grocery-store coffee and founded the Daily Grind on Bridge Street. Now, after two decades in the business, Vail Coffee & Tea Co. is thriving at its Minturn headquarters. The company roasts its own coffee, and the partners travel the world looking for both beans and tea leaves that will tantalize warm-beverage drinkers.
And, in a time when even Starbucks has closed some shops, Vail Coffee & Tea is expanding. The company recently signed a deal with Kroger to sell coffee at King Soopers and City Market stores.
Chantler and Arseneau recently took time to answer some e-mailed questions about the past, present and future of their company.
Vail Daily: Both of you have spent your lives in the coffee and tea business. What drew you to Vail?
Arseneau/Chantler: The mountain lifestyle and business opportunities. Craig is originally from the Chicago area and attended the University of Denver. Chris grew up in the Far East and landed in Wisconsin.
Both of us were working in Boston in the hotel industry, watching the early advances in the specialty-coffee industry. Craig left the hotel management world and joined a company called the Coffee Development Group, a nonprofit funded by the International Coffee Organization to promote gourmet coffee throughout the U.S. This was the catalyst that led us into the coffee industry. We knew that we wanted to open espresso bars, and it was a matter of where.
Vail became our first choice after a spectacular ski trip. This was then solidified by a trip to Switzerland, where we realized the world travels to Vail, and they would then be drinking our coffee.
VD: When you started focusing on roasting and wholesale, how important was it to have “Vail” in the name?
A/C: Very important. Vail represents a top-notch mountain experience. People travel to Vail to enjoy the quintessential “Rocky Mountain High,” to quote John Denver. The pure mountain environment and the quality reputation of the Vail Valley typifies our brand. It speaks to who we are — active and athletic, loving the outdoors, providing world-class products and leading the industry in alternative
roasting.
The partners came to the early realization that people would pay for options to grocery-store coffee and founded the Daily Grind on Bridge Street. Now, after two decades in the business, Vail Coffee & Tea Co. is thriving at its Minturn headquarters. The company roasts its own coffee, and the partners travel the world looking for both beans and tea leaves that will tantalize warm-beverage drinkers.
And, in a time when even Starbucks has closed some shops, Vail Coffee & Tea is expanding. The company recently signed a deal with Kroger to sell coffee at King Soopers and City Market stores.
Chantler and Arseneau recently took time to answer some e-mailed questions about the past, present and future of their company.
Vail Daily: Both of you have spent your lives in the coffee and tea business. What drew you to Vail?
Arseneau/Chantler: The mountain lifestyle and business opportunities. Craig is originally from the Chicago area and attended the University of Denver. Chris grew up in the Far East and landed in Wisconsin.
Both of us were working in Boston in the hotel industry, watching the early advances in the specialty-coffee industry. Craig left the hotel management world and joined a company called the Coffee Development Group, a nonprofit funded by the International Coffee Organization to promote gourmet coffee throughout the U.S. This was the catalyst that led us into the coffee industry. We knew that we wanted to open espresso bars, and it was a matter of where.
Vail became our first choice after a spectacular ski trip. This was then solidified by a trip to Switzerland, where we realized the world travels to Vail, and they would then be drinking our coffee.
VD: When you started focusing on roasting and wholesale, how important was it to have “Vail” in the name?
A/C: Very important. Vail represents a top-notch mountain experience. People travel to Vail to enjoy the quintessential “Rocky Mountain High,” to quote John Denver. The pure mountain environment and the quality reputation of the Vail Valley typifies our brand. It speaks to who we are — active and athletic, loving the outdoors, providing world-class products and leading the industry in alternative
roasting.
VD: Vail Coffee and Tea has had its headquarters in Minturn for nearly 17 years. Have there been temptations to move farther down valley?
A/C: Not really. We love our location and we've managed to operate efficiently there. We were fortunate to have an opportunity to purchase our facility here in Minturn five years ago and have plenty of space for our roasting operations, packaging, offices, showroom and cupping room. Minturn is very central, giving us close proximity to the entire valley and easy access to Interstate 70 to service the entire state. It would be hard to say, “Roasted in the Rocky Mountains” when we're not nestled among them.
VD: What got you two into the tea business? What do you think the biggest differences are between the tea and coffee
businesses?
A/C: We both have traveled and have drank amazing teas, mostly teas that were not available to the average consumer in the early 1990s. It was always a shock to be in a fine restaurant, and after being served a spectacular meal, that you were given a selection of dreadful tea bags.
We wanted to bring the best in tea to our customers, just as we have done with our coffees. Our goal was to give restaurants the opportunity to make a statement with tea and turn coffeehouses into coffee and tea houses, giving the small coffeehouse operator a way to differentiate their business from their corporate competitors. What many people don't know is that only 59 percent of the U.S. population actually drinks coffee. That leaves, no pun intended, a huge audience for tea sales.
Tea is a very different experience to coffee. Coffee is about revving up, whereas tea is about taking time out to relax, reflect and recharge.
A/C: Not really. We love our location and we've managed to operate efficiently there. We were fortunate to have an opportunity to purchase our facility here in Minturn five years ago and have plenty of space for our roasting operations, packaging, offices, showroom and cupping room. Minturn is very central, giving us close proximity to the entire valley and easy access to Interstate 70 to service the entire state. It would be hard to say, “Roasted in the Rocky Mountains” when we're not nestled among them.
VD: What got you two into the tea business? What do you think the biggest differences are between the tea and coffee
businesses?
A/C: We both have traveled and have drank amazing teas, mostly teas that were not available to the average consumer in the early 1990s. It was always a shock to be in a fine restaurant, and after being served a spectacular meal, that you were given a selection of dreadful tea bags.
We wanted to bring the best in tea to our customers, just as we have done with our coffees. Our goal was to give restaurants the opportunity to make a statement with tea and turn coffeehouses into coffee and tea houses, giving the small coffeehouse operator a way to differentiate their business from their corporate competitors. What many people don't know is that only 59 percent of the U.S. population actually drinks coffee. That leaves, no pun intended, a huge audience for tea sales.
Tea is a very different experience to coffee. Coffee is about revving up, whereas tea is about taking time out to relax, reflect and recharge.
VD: You just signed a marketing and distribution deal with Kroger. How do you plan to fill those larger orders and keep your small-company agility?
A/C: Simple — provide more coffee and tea! Over the past five years, we have been slowly growing our company by hiring inspired and talented employees who can rise to every order yet still enjoy the days off that are required (powder days, blue sky days, high river days, etc.).
We have also been using “Toyota Lean” philosophy to make our program run smoothly, more manufacturing than running around. We all work hard to keep costs low, keep product quality intact and keep producing more coffee and tea.
VD: How many miles did the two of you fly last year?
A/C: Our young families and a knee surgery have hampered travel this year, but in the past 24 months, we have been to Taiwan, Japan, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Mexico. Between the two of us, we've probably logged around 50,000 miles. With our commitment to build relationships with our farmers, we have plans to visit Colombia, Guatemala and Brazil in the upcoming year and possibly a quick trip to China.
A/C: Simple — provide more coffee and tea! Over the past five years, we have been slowly growing our company by hiring inspired and talented employees who can rise to every order yet still enjoy the days off that are required (powder days, blue sky days, high river days, etc.).
We have also been using “Toyota Lean” philosophy to make our program run smoothly, more manufacturing than running around. We all work hard to keep costs low, keep product quality intact and keep producing more coffee and tea.
VD: How many miles did the two of you fly last year?
A/C: Our young families and a knee surgery have hampered travel this year, but in the past 24 months, we have been to Taiwan, Japan, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Mexico. Between the two of us, we've probably logged around 50,000 miles. With our commitment to build relationships with our farmers, we have plans to visit Colombia, Guatemala and Brazil in the upcoming year and possibly a quick trip to China.
Coffee roaster Bob Currie pours another round of raw coffee into the coffee roasters as freshly roasted beans cool in the foreground Wednesday at the Vail Coffee & Tea Co. in Minturn. The local company is celebrating 20 years of business in the valley this year.
Dominique Taylor | dtaylor@vaildaily.com
Dominique Taylor | dtaylor@vaildaily.com
Vail Coffee and Tea Co. founders Chris Chantler, left, and Craig Arseneau, right, are all smiles as they celebrate 20 years of business surrounded by some of their product Wednesday at their company headquarters in Minturn. Dominique Taylor | dtaylor@vaildaily.com
Vail Mountain Coffee & Tea Company – Leaders in Micro Estate, Single Origin, Sustainably Farmed Coffees & Teas providing quality, freshness and sustainability for over 20 years. For more information, please call (970) 827-4008 or visit www.vailcoffee.com.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Big Business for Small Company
VAIL MOUNTAIN COFFEE PARTNERS WITH KROGER IN COLORADO
August 25, 2010 – Vail, CO — Vail Mountain Coffee & Tea Company announced today its partnership with Kroger (NYSE: KR) brands City Market and King Soopers for retail distribution of its packaged specialty coffees. Kroger’s locations throughout Colorado put this Vail brand on the shelves of 180 specialty markets and grocery stores. “This is a great partnership for Vail Mountain Coffee & Tea Company,” stated founder and co-owner Chris Chantler. “This is a huge opportunity to brand our company, but also an incredible product placement for the Town of Vail and Vail Mountain.”
Co-owners Chantler and Craig Arseneau opened the company’s doors in 1989 on Bridge Street with a storefront that became internationally known as The Daily Grind. After 16 years offering coffee to the world’s elite skiers and snowboarders on the way to the slopes of Vail Mountain, the company grew out of its coffee shop and focused on wholesale distribution of its specialty coffee lines.
Vail Mountain Coffee & Tea Company headquarters out of Minturn and is located at an altitude of approximately 8,000 feet. “The natural sugars found within the coffee bean caramelize at a lower temperature at this altitude during the roasting process,” said Arseneau. “This slow caramelization process creates a smooth and complex flavor profile and have less acidity.”
In the last 5 years, the company has created direct trade purchasing programs on three continents, forming lasting relationships with farmers in Colombia, Costa Rica, Brazil, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Sumatra, Kenya, India, and Taiwan.
Vail Mountain Coffee & Tea Company has spent the last 20 years evolving into one of Colorado’s finest coffee roasters and Tea Company, and one of Vail’s most successful small businesses – no longer small. “The success of our company has been due to our mission of quality, freshness and, sustainability,” said Arseneau.
Vail Mountain Coffee & Tea Company – quality, freshness and sustainability with 20 years experience in the coffee and tea industries. For more information, please call (970) 827-4008 or visit www.vailcoffee.com.
August 25, 2010 – Vail, CO — Vail Mountain Coffee & Tea Company announced today its partnership with Kroger (NYSE: KR) brands City Market and King Soopers for retail distribution of its packaged specialty coffees. Kroger’s locations throughout Colorado put this Vail brand on the shelves of 180 specialty markets and grocery stores. “This is a great partnership for Vail Mountain Coffee & Tea Company,” stated founder and co-owner Chris Chantler. “This is a huge opportunity to brand our company, but also an incredible product placement for the Town of Vail and Vail Mountain.”
Co-owners Chantler and Craig Arseneau opened the company’s doors in 1989 on Bridge Street with a storefront that became internationally known as The Daily Grind. After 16 years offering coffee to the world’s elite skiers and snowboarders on the way to the slopes of Vail Mountain, the company grew out of its coffee shop and focused on wholesale distribution of its specialty coffee lines.
Vail Mountain Coffee & Tea Company headquarters out of Minturn and is located at an altitude of approximately 8,000 feet. “The natural sugars found within the coffee bean caramelize at a lower temperature at this altitude during the roasting process,” said Arseneau. “This slow caramelization process creates a smooth and complex flavor profile and have less acidity.”
In the last 5 years, the company has created direct trade purchasing programs on three continents, forming lasting relationships with farmers in Colombia, Costa Rica, Brazil, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Sumatra, Kenya, India, and Taiwan.
Vail Mountain Coffee & Tea Company has spent the last 20 years evolving into one of Colorado’s finest coffee roasters and Tea Company, and one of Vail’s most successful small businesses – no longer small. “The success of our company has been due to our mission of quality, freshness and, sustainability,” said Arseneau.
Vail Mountain Coffee & Tea Company – quality, freshness and sustainability with 20 years experience in the coffee and tea industries. For more information, please call (970) 827-4008 or visit www.vailcoffee.com.
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