From fruity notes to chocolatey blends, Wild Gift Coffee has sold a variety of coffee beans sourced from countries around the world and roasted in-house in North Austin for a decade.

Meet the team

The coffee roasting company was founded in 2014 by Clancy Rose and spouses Rob and Jenée Ovitt. The three have been in the coffee business since 2004 as baristas and coffee shop owners, Rose said.
Wild Gift Coffee owners Rob Ovitt, Jenée Ovitt and Clancy Rose founded the coffee roasting company a decade ago. (Wild Gift Coffee)
Wild Gift Coffee owners Rob Ovitt, Jenée Ovitt and Clancy Rose founded the coffee roasting company a decade ago. (Courtesy Wild Gift Coffee)
The company initially operated in Round Rock for three years before relocating to Austin.

“We just had an idea to try to buy some of the best coffees that we could find in the world, and have super fresh, exciting coffees,” Rose said. “[We] had a lot of relationships with people around town to give us a foot in the door."

What’s special about it?


The company sells single origin and blended bags with beans sourced from Latin American countries such as Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru and Mexico. There are also some beans sourced from Africa, including Ethiopia, Kenya and Rwanda.

Rose has been in charge of sourcing and buying beans since the start, he said, and has traveled extensively around Latin America to build partnerships with local farmers there.

“That's the job and that's a thing that I always wanted to do,” Rose said. “That was a big focus, especially at first, in finding these relationships and finding producers to work with.”
Wild Gift Coffee founder and co-owner Clancy Rose is the primary coffee bean sourcer for the company, seen here in Mexico in early 2020. Rose said he has traveled to most of the countries featured in the company's coffee blends. (Courtesy Wild Gift Coffee)
Wild Gift Coffee founder and co-owner Clancy Rose is the primary coffee bean sourcer for the company, seen here in Mexico in early 2020. Rose said he has traveled to most of the countries featured in the company's coffee blends. (Courtesy Wild Gift Coffee)
Different regions have different climates, elevations and soil compositions, Rose said, which can change the way the coffee beans taste—even if they’re harvested from the same farm, or harvested only a few days apart from each other.

Back at Wild Gift Coffee, the team tries new coffee beans and tests its current blends for quality control by grinding the beans and steeping them in water.


“This is how all coffee professionals will analyze coffee, because there's not really much training involved,” Rose said. “There's not a barista element. You need water heated to the right temperature, a grinder, a scale, and cups and spoons.”

The company also has two industrial-sized coffee bean roasting machines and an entire warehouse space dedicated to packing orders and storing its “green coffee,” or raw coffee beans sold in one-pound bags, ideal for home roasters.
Wild Gift Coffee founder and co-owner Rob Ovitt uses one of the company's industrial-sized coffee roasting machines. (Courtesy Wild Gift Coffee)
Wild Gift Coffee founder and co-owner Rob Ovitt uses one of the company's industrial-sized coffee roasting machines. (Courtesy Wild Gift Coffee)
Staying local

Along with the company’s physical location in North Austin, 12-ounce Wild Gift Coffee bags can be found in local coffee shops around Austin including Once Over Coffee Bar, which the Ovitt’s opened in 2009.

The brand can also be found in both Austin Central Market locations.