My name is Michael Würzner and I discovered specialty coffee in 2013, during a trip to the state of Oaxaca in Mexico. There I drank an exceptional coffee in a shop that roasted coffee from local coffee growers on site. At the time, I was a diplomat for the federal government, specializing in sustainability issues, especially food products.

I was passionate about this job, but I wanted to be able to put sustainability into practice. Since this experience in Mexico, coffee quickly became my passion and I started taking classes and studying everything related to coffee. So much so that after a few years of thinking about it, I decided to leave diplomacy to found my coffee roasting company. By founding Xalala, my goal was to create a company and products based around the notions of quality, simple joy and ecological and social responsibility. Connecting and sharing my passion from one end of the chain to the other, be it with producers or customers, is a central aspect at Xalala. This is probably also one of the reasons why I decided to settle in the heart of the Valais, in the middle of the vineyards, in a house that also brings together other lovers of the terroir (winegrowers and producers working in organic and/or biodynamic agriculture), because it is a land of passion that fits perfectly with Xalala.

We are constantly in a world of stress, where we forget to live and appreciate nature, the landscapes, the people around us