Leonardo DiCappuccino, anyone?

Leonardo DiCaprio likes his coffee smooth - a light roast, nectar-like, no bitterness.

Just ask Todd Carmichael and Jean-Philippe Iberti, who spent more than a year perfecting a blend to suit the palate of the Hollywood star.

The founding partners of La Colombe, the Philadelphia-based roastery with cafés here and in New York and Chicago, paid repeated visits to DiCaprio's West Hollywood abode to brew him single-batch roasts and to test blends, working to come up with a new La Colombe label that would bear DiCaprio's signature.

That blend is called Lyon. It is sourced from Brazil, Ethiopia, Haiti, and Peru. It is being sold in Whole Foods and Williams-Sonoma stores, and, of course, in La Colombe cafés and on the La Colombe website. And all of the net profits from the Lyon blend - 100 percent - go to the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, funding wildlife protection, forest preservation, clean-water projects, disaster relief, and climate-change research around the globe.

"Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever," DiCaprio says in a news release issued last week from the star's camp and the artisanal roasters. "I am thrilled to be a part of this new project with La Colombe that will help aid the shift to a truly sustainable future for the planet and its inhabitants."

DiCaprio is in Australia shooting The Great Gatsby, director Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic (which, by the way, boasts a character who runs a coffee shop). And when DiCaprio is in moviemaking mode, he does not speak to the press.

So how did DiCaprio and the La Colombe guys meet?

Somewhere on the eco-philosophical borders of Borneo and Sumatra.

"Borneo's a coffee-growing country, it's right across from Sumatra, and we buy from both places," explains Carmichael, who, in addition to being a serious coffee dude is an adventurer who holds the world record for the fastest solo trek across Antarctica to the South Pole (700 miles in 39 days, 7 hours, and 49 minutes).

Carmichael and Iberti have been battling a major coffee producer in Borneo who has been burning off forests, endangering the ecosystem and the species that live there.

And DiCaprio, through his foundation, had been "working his brains off" in Sumatra, says Carmichael, trying to save the endangered Sumatran tiger.

A first meeting