THE JULIUS MEINL GROUP (pronounced MY'nl) was founded in Vienna 1862 by a boy from the country who came to Imperial Vienna looking for work. He opened a small store and started to sell green coffee. In those days coffee beans were roasted at home on wood burning stoves. This process required a lot of care because the risk of burning the beans was considerable. It was young Julius Meinl who had the ingenious idea of selling fresh roasted coffee.

This innovation was accepted by the Viennese with enthusiasm and brought the young boy great success. In 1891 Julius Meinl opened a modern roasting plant on the very site where the Ottoman army had left the green coffee beans 200 years earlier.

Since then 5 generations of the Meinl family have been supplying customers worldwide with the world's finest coffees. For over 145 years Julius Meinl has been Central Europe's leading coffee company.

Based in Vienna, Austria, the coffee capital of the world, our name stands for tradition, experience and top quality products. Our coffee buyers, blenders and roasting specialists are leaders in their profession and Julius Meinl guarantees quality coffee of unbeatable aroma and taste. Today Julius Meinl is a leading purveyor of quality teas, jams and many other fine foods.

Our state-of-the-art roasting plant combined with the unique Julius Meinl coffee roasting experience and know-how guarantees the persistent high quality of our coffee blends. Now the Julius Meinl Group has designed its version of the Vienna "Kaffeehaus" and shipped it to the US for the first time.