Mastertons Coffee
Coffee Machine in Port Elizabeth

Order your favourite Coffee Blends online:: Coffee Beans | Filter Coffee | Plunger Coffee | Espresso | Cappuccino. Masterton's Coffee & Tea Specialists, offer the largest coffee selection of Freshly Roasted Quality Coffee and Teas.

Since first opening our doors in 1924, we have been building relationships with our customers and coffee lovers across South Africa by providing a unique personalised service. It’s through these relationships and our continued commitment to excellence in coffee that has seen our coffee roastery go from strength to strength. Also supplying flavoured dessert coffees, premium decaf and a variety of fine teas, brewing equipment and accessories. Mastertons Coffee is distributed nationwide, and is found everywhere from supermarkets, hotels, restaurants and coffee shops to the homes of coffee loving individuals across South Africa. Our ability to craft custom coffee blends to your taste and requirements is just one of the things that sets us apart. Originally the coffee plant grew naturally in Ethiopia, but once transplanted in Arabia it was monopolised by the Arabs. The Turks were the first country to adopt it as a drink, often adding spices such as clove, cinnamon, cardamom and anise to the brew. Coffee was introduced much later to countries beyond Arabia whose inhabitants believed it to be a delicacy and guarded its secret as if they were top secret military plans. From the Muslim world, coffee spread to Europe, where it became popular in the 17th century. Dutch traders were the first to start the large scale importation of coffee into Europe. In the 1700’s, coffee found its way to the Americas by means of a French infantry captain who nurtured a single plant on the Atlantic journey. This one plant, transplanted to the Caribbean Island of Martinique, became the predecessor of over 19 million trees on the island. The coffee plant found its way to the rest of the tropical regions of South and Central America. Espresso, a recent innovation in the way to prepare coffee, obtained its origin in 1822, with the innovation of the first crude espresso machine in France. The Italians perfected this wonderful machine and were the first to manufacture it. Espresso has become such an integral part of Italian life and culture, that there are presently over 200,000 espresso bars in Italy. Today, coffee is a giant global industry employing more than 20 million people. Coffee ranks second only to petroleum in terms of dollars traded.