Reviews for Coffee Bean International
Price: $9.99/12 ounces
Bright, delicate coffee alive with flowers, lemon, cocoa and a slightly pungent melon-like note. Gentle, brisk acidity; light but silky smooth mouthfeel. Lemon and cocoa in particular carry into the rich, sweet-toned finish.
Sweet-toned, crisp aroma with notes of fruit (cherry, apricot?) nut and fir. Medium to full body with a simple yet assertive acidity. In the cup, hints of night flowers and berry-fruit fade to cocoa and honey. Flowers persist into the finish, with a slight nutty astringency developing in the long.
A sweet nuttiness dominates here, startling in its clarity. This taste complex, typically a bit player in coffees, takes extravagant control of this one, upstaging everything else. True, a hint of wine made itself heard above the sweetness of the acidity. Perhaps some slightly hard, metallic or tobacco tones flitted across the stage just as the lights went down.
This coffee could be condemned for its lack of power or admired for its soft refinement and vanilla- and nut-toned sweetness. I bought in on the sweetness side. The vanilla-nut tones displayed remarkable persistence, complicating the aroma and lingering in the aftertaste with surprisingly clarity and richness.