Dolly Fundraiser and Other October Updates

October is a season of change

There are many things happening at Vienna, both behind the scenes and front and center. We added outdoor seating to our Maryville College location, opened a second location on the ORNL campus, and have been welcoming new staff at all locations. The changes keep on coming, and we're thankful you've been with us every step of the way.

La Armonia Hermosa|Guatemala

A new month means a new single origin spotlight!

This month, we bring you Guatemala La Armonia Hermosa. It is a medium roast with tasting notes of dried apricot, citrus, and graham cracker.

The name translates to "the beautiful harmony" - and it's earned. Through a long-standing relationship between these farming families and our sister company Deeper Roots Coffee, the producers here have gained access to better infrastructure, technical support, and the kind of pricing that makes growing coffee a sustainable lively hood.

Our Red Roaster Blend is here to stay a while longer.

It’s our signature fall roast, currently on the bar as our pour over offering. It pays homage to our founders roots, who started this company with a small red coffee bean roaster you can see in our downtown Maryville location. Read more about it in our previous blog.

Our Tribute to Dolly

Imagination Library Donation

Dolly Parton is an inspiration to us all in east Tennessee. We here at Vienna were saddened to hear of her passing, and wanted to do something to show our support to her and what she stood for. Dolly Parton started a foundation to help the literacy crisis in Tennessee 31 years ago, known as the Imagination Library. It started small, with just books to children born in her home county of Sevierville. Now it's expanded to include the entire United States and even some programs internationally. The Imagination Library has been providing children one free book a month from the time they are born until their 5th birthday.

We decided to raise funds for Dolly's Imagination Library. With our sales of The Dolly drink and Front Porch beans, we were able to raise $300. If you would like to learn more about this program or make your own donation, visit their website by clicking on the photo above.

Introducing: Single Origin Colombia Tolima

Tolima is one of Colombia's most established coffee-producing regions, and its reputation is well-earned. Situated in the central Andes, the department's highlands offer the elevation, climate, and agricultural tradition that specialty coffee demands. This lot comes from the growing areas surrounding Ibagué, Tolima's capital city — a hub for the region's coffee trade and home to the infrastructure that makes a coffee like this possible.

Pergamino Coffee Exporters works with more than 50 smallholder growers in the area, each delivering their harvested cherry to a logistics partner in Ibagué. There, a warehouse and cupping lab serve as the quality checkpoint between farm and export. Every lot that passes through is analyzed — cupped and evaluated for quality and consistency before it's approved for shipment. It's a straightforward but meaningful step. Rather than consolidating lots of unknown origin, Pergamino's model ensures that what leaves Ibagué has been vetted, verified, and held to a standard.

We first worked with this coffee in 2024 and it became an immediate favorite. The cup is grounded in brown butter richness, layered with pecan nuttiness, and kept bright by a mild citrus acidity that prevents the sweetness from going flat. Medium body, clean finish. We roasted it at medium to let those flavors speak for themselves — this isn't a coffee that needs the roast to do the work. It needed space, and that's what we gave it.

The result is a daily drinker in the truest sense: approachable enough for every morning, complex enough to stay interesting. We're glad to finally have it on the shelf, and we hope you'll give it a try.