Julia Peixoto Peters of Peixoto Coffee

Arizona's coffee roasters are passionate about sourcing green coffee from sustainable farms across the globe. At Peixoto Coffee Roasters, that includes their family farm in southern Brazil, in operation for more than 100 years.

Julia Peixoto Peters has helmed the extension of her family's legacy in Arizona since 2015. With a café and a roastery in Chandler and a satellite location in Gilbert, Peixoto has become a popular destination in the East Valley coffee scene.

Jeff Peters, co-owner and roaster, explains that the flavor potential of each batch is locked inside the beans.

"Systems and technology we developed, paired with a roaster's skills, determine the roast profile that makes each batch of coffee shine," he says. "The roaster's ability to preserve each lot's unique characteristics by manipulating all the variables in the roasting process honors all the work done by nature and the farmers who came before us."

Perfecting the daily ritual is elevated to art at Peixoto. Vanilla lattes are crafted with Madagascar vanilla bean paste and organic sugar cane, while seasonal lattes bring in such toppers as dried lavender, bee pollen and cayenne pepper. Year-round, single-origin bagged coffees are roasted from light to medium with a passion to preserve the seed-to-cup simplicity.