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We found 40 reviews that match your search for Roaster = Green Mountain Coffee Roasters and Rating >= 90. Coffees are listed in reverse chronological order by review date. Older reviews may no longer accurately reflect current versions of the same coffee. Click on roaster images to visit roaster websites.


93
Roast: Medium-Dark Review Date: July 2010
Origin: South-central Kenya. Price: $8.49/10 oz.
In the aroma orangy citrus, molasses, nut, black currant. In the cup richly tart acidity, lightly syrupy body, and shifting, complex flavor: pungent aromatic wood, black currant, blackberry, ripe citrus, molasses. All saturate the long, resonant finish with an exquisite dematerialized essence of flavor.
AROMA:8
ACIDITY:8
BODY:8
FLAVOR:9
AFTERTASTE:10
AGTRON:39/53

91
Roast: Medium-Dark Review Date: July 2010
Origin: Guatemala Price: $17.95/12 oz.
Sweet nut and milk chocolate in the aroma with background fruit and floral hints. In the cup, full, syrupy mouthfeel, penetrating acidity and good balance. Fruit tones become more pronounced (citrus, cherry) and the chocolate turns bittersweet, carrying into a long finish.
AROMA:8
ACIDITY:8
BODY:8
FLAVOR:9
AFTERTASTE:8
AGTRON:45/55

90
Roast: Dark Review Date: July 2010
Origin: South America, East Africa Price: $8.49/10 oz.
Sweet and delicate in aroma and cup. Fruit-toned cocoa, flowers, nut in both aroma and cup. Gently balanced acidity, light but silky mouthfeel, very sweet finish with a continued clear cocoa note.
AROMA:8
ACIDITY:8
BODY:8
FLAVOR:8
AFTERTASTE:8
AGTRON:0/38

91
Roast: Medium Review Date: May 2010
Origin: Colombia Price: $8.49/10 oz.
Aromatically deep, with richly round caramel, toast and milk chocolate notes. In the cup penetrating acidity and flavor. Intense fruit-toned chocolate gives way to layers of fruit (peach, orange, black currant?) that soften and grow in complexity as the cup cools. Pungent dark chocolate dominates in the finish.
AROMA:8
ACIDITY:8
BODY:8
FLAVOR:9
AFTERTASTE:8
AGTRON:45/59

90
Roast: Medium-Dark Review Date: March 2010
Origin: Not disclosed. Price: $8.49 / 10 oz.
Sweet-toned, fresh aroma, with hints of orangy fruit, dry berry, dark chocolate. In the cup very soft acidity, plush mouthfeel, and an almost sugary sweetness with continued hints of dry berry. The sweetness carries into the finish, where a suggestion of the chocolate revives.
AROMA:8
ACIDITY:8
BODY:8
FLAVOR:8
AFTERTASTE:8
AGTRON:0/45

91
Roast: Medium Review Date: January 2010
Origin: Ethiopia, Java Price: $8.49/12oz
Delicate but rich. Distinct milk chocolate notes and hints of butter and apricot-like fruit in aroma and cup; a suggestion of earth in the cup. The chocolate carries into a clean, sweet-toned finish.
AROMA:9
ACIDITY:8
BODY:8
FLAVOR:8
AFTERTASTE:8
AGTRON:50/68

90
Roast: Medium-Light Review Date: November 2009
Origin: Guatemala Price: NA
Deep aroma of toasty chocolate with hints of baking spices. Balanced chocolate-toned character carries into the cup with suggestions of flowers and sweet orangy citrus. The reoccurring theme of this coffee, chocolate, lingers in the finish, turning from bittersweet toward milk chocolate in the long.
AROMA:8
ACIDITY:7
BODY:8
FLAVOR:8
AFTERTASTE:8
AGTRON:53/74

94
Roast: Medium Review Date: November 2009
Origin: Ethiopia Price: $8.95/16oz
Intensely aromatic yet finely balanced. The rich aroma is dominated by a pungent cedar sensation with backgrounded caramelly chocolate sweetness and a hint of flowers. The chocolaty fruit and night floral notes move lushly forward in the cup, persisting into the finish. Soft acidity, lightly syrupy mouthfeel.
AROMA:9
ACIDITY:8
BODY:8
FLAVOR:9
AFTERTASTE:8
AGTRON:45/61

92
Roast: Medium-Dark Review Date: August 2009
Origin: Kenya Price: NA
Delicately complex aroma of flowers, tangerine and honey. In the cup, smooth mouthfeel, balanced, richly floral-toned acidity, and elegant notes of orange, lemon and yes, more flowers. Finishes cleanly with the flavor nuances lingering softly.
AROMA:7
ACIDITY:7
BODY:7
FLAVOR:8
AFTERTASTE:7
AGTRON:38/52

91
Roast: Medium-Dark Review Date: August 2009
Origin: Nicaragua Price: NA
Balanced aroma with soft notes of pipe tobacco, vanilla, sweet aromatic wood and suggestions of fruit. The fruit becomes more pronounced in the bright-toned acidity. A graceful cup, with a lightly syrupy mouthfeel and flavors of orange, grapefruit, fir, and a touch of chocolate that sweetens in the finish.
AROMA:8
ACIDITY:8
BODY:8
FLAVOR:8
AFTERTASTE:8
AGTRON:45/56

90
Roast: Medium Review Date: August 2009
Origin: Guatemala Price: NA
Intense, sweet-toned aroma: cherryish fruit, hints of orange and flowers. In the cup rich, rounded acidity, fullish body, and continued cherry- and orange-toned fruit complicated by a dry, cocoaish chocolate. Simple, sweet finish.
AROMA:9
ACIDITY:8
BODY:8
FLAVOR:8
AFTERTASTE:7
AGTRON:44/63

90
Roast: Medium-Dark Review Date: August 2009
Origin: Tanzania Price: NA
Rich, deep, balanced coffee with tight-knit complexity in aroma and cup: night flowers, orange, berry, raisin. Delicately bright acidity, medium body, simple but cleanly rich finish.
AROMA:8
ACIDITY:8
BODY:7
FLAVOR:8
AFTERTASTE:8
AGTRON:40/51

92
Roast: Medium-Dark Review Date: March 2009
Origin: Rwanda, Mexico, Colombia Price: NA
Lovely balance. Crisply sweet-toned aroma: lemon, flowers, and a deepening hint of pungent dried fruit. In the cup gently bright, with a continued delicate sweetness and complex cherryish fruit completely free of bitter or astringent imbalances. Cleanly simple finish.
AROMA:8
ACIDITY:8
BODY:7
FLAVOR:8
AFTERTASTE:8
AGTRON:0/48

90
Roast: Medium-Dark Review Date: February 2009
Origin: Colombia Price: NA
An aromatically simple but deeply resonant coffee. Richly pungent aroma with hints of nut, raisin and dark chocolate. In the cup lightly syrupy mouthfeel and a quietly vibrant, roast-toned acidity. Continued suggestions of raisin or perhaps dried cherry, dark chocolate, nut. Clean, sweet, though rather short finish.
AROMA:8
ACIDITY:8
BODY:8
FLAVOR:8
AFTERTASTE:7
AGTRON:37/49

90
Roast: Dark Review Date: December 2008
Origin: Blend Price: NA
A very comfortable coffee. Sweetly balanced aroma: dark chocolate, raisiny fruit. In the cup low-toned, gentle acidity, roundly silky mouthfeel, continued dark chocolate and raisin notes supported by aromatic wood and perhaps a hint of lemon. The chocolate notes persist in the quietly rich finish.
AROMA:8
ACIDITY:7
BODY:8
FLAVOR:8
AFTERTASTE:8
AGTRON:0/40

90
Roast: Medium-Dark Review Date: November 2008
Origin: Costa Rica Price: NA
Aromatic notes of chocolate, peppery spices, nuts and soft, sweet-toned fruit. Rounded, balanced acidity, with full, buttery mouthfeel. Sweet raisin-like fruit notes in the cup fade toward dark chocolate and nut. A cocoaish chocolate carries into the finish.
AROMA:8
ACIDITY:8
BODY:8
FLAVOR:8
AFTERTASTE:8
AGTRON:41/54

93
Roast: Medium Review Date: September 2008
Origin: Kenya Price: $8.49/10oz
Roundly balanced aroma; orange, chocolate, a hint of flowers. In the cup silky mouthfeel, crisp acidity. The orange notes turn pleasantly bittersweet (think fresh orange peel) and the hint of chocolate goes dark and raisiny. The orange notes carry deeply into the finish, with a revived suggestion of flowers.
AROMA:8
ACIDITY:7
BODY:8
FLAVOR:9
AFTERTASTE:8
AGTRON:47/61

91
Roast: Medium-Dark Review Date: September 2008
Origin: Tanzania Price: NA
Very sweet-toned aroma with floral and honey notes and a balancing walnut crispness. In the cup gentle acidity, light but silky mouthfeel, and a continued giddy, honey-toned, floral sweetness as fresh but voluptuous as a tropical morning. The finish is delicate and rather short, but as cleanly refreshing as the rest of the profile.
AROMA:8
ACIDITY:8
BODY:7
FLAVOR:9
AFTERTASTE:8
AGTRON:38/53

90
Roast: Medium Review Date: September 2008
Origin: Blend Price: $8.49/10oz
Superbly balanced, bright but sweet cup. Grapefruit-toned citrus, flowers, nut in the aroma. In the cup perfectly balanced acidity and sweetness, lightly syrupy mouthfeel with nut and orange notes and a continued hint of flowers. A slight astringent tightness mars an otherwise rich finish.
AROMA:9
ACIDITY:8
BODY:8
FLAVOR:8
AFTERTASTE:7
AGTRON:51/66

93
Roast: Medium Review Date: March 2008
Origin: Ethiopia Price: $8.49/10oz
This coffee declares its essential Yirgacheffe character immediately: perfumy and pungently menthol-toned in the aroma, shimmering with floral and lemon notes. The aromatic drama carries without loss or simplification into a gently bright cup, light-bodied but silky in mouthfeel. The finish is thinnish but long, sweet, and flower-saturated.
AROMA:8
ACIDITY:8
BODY:7
FLAVOR:8
AFTERTASTE:8
AGTRON:52/65

90
Roast: Medium-Dark Review Date: March 2008
Origin: Blend Price: $8.49/12oz
Crisp aroma distinct baker's chocolate and hints of raisin and pungent, fresh-cut cedar. In the cup quiet, balanced, softly acidy, gently bittersweet, with continued baker's chocolate and raisin notes. Rich, softly astringent finish.
AROMA:8
ACIDITY:7
BODY:8
FLAVOR:8
AFTERTASTE:8
AGTRON:43/51

96
Roast: Medium-Dark Review Date: October 2007
Origin: Kenya Price: $8.95/10oz
The aroma is very deep and sweet-toned with lush references to banana, coconut, dusk flowers. In the cup the acidity is extraordinarily rich and round-toned, the mouthfeel supple, the nuance opulent with coconut, red wine, chocolate and floral notes. Rich, long, flavor-saturated finish.
AROMA:9
ACIDITY:9
BODY:8
FLAVOR:9
AFTERTASTE:8
AGTRON:44/56

90
Roast: Medium-Dark Review Date: June 2007
Origin: Tanzania Price: NA
Dominated throughout the profile by crisp, complex dry berry notes (think blackberries and cedar) with deep, sweet undercurrents of honey and chocolate that emerge with particular clarity as the cup cools. The tart berry notes also carry suggestions of dry, light-bodied red table wines.
AROMA:8
ACIDITY:8
BODY:7
FLAVOR:8
AFTERTASTE:8
AGTRON:43/58

90
Roast: Medium Review Date: May 2007
Origin: Sumatra Price: NA
Very rich aroma: tartly sweet, round-toned, with cherry- and orange-toned fruit. In the cup syrupy mouthfeel, sweet, with continued orangy fruit and a hint of moist leaves.
AROMA:8
ACIDITY:7
BODY:8
FLAVOR:8
AFTERTASTE:8
AGTRON:50/63

90
Roast: Medium Review Date: March 2007
Origin: Rwanda Price: NA
Sweet, rich, deep, pungently juicy aroma: cedar, oranges, banana, a hint of flowers. In the cup lean-bodied with a brightly pungent acidity, intensified floral notes, and a cocoa-chocolate cast to the fruit. The slightly dominating acidity softens in the finish, allowing the juicy orange and banana notes to bloom in a long, complex finale.
AROMA:9
ACIDITY:7
BODY:7
FLAVOR:7
AFTERTASTE:8
AGTRON:52/63

92
Roast: Medium Review Date: February 2007
Origin: Yemen, Java Price: $8.95/12oz
Sweet, deep aroma with considerable intrigue: an herby, mentholated lemon, a hint of earth, distinct butter notes. In the cup softly acidy, silky in mouthfeel, voluptuously delicate yet subtly brusque, with cocoa notes and perhaps a continuing hint of butter. The finish is rich and sweet.
AROMA:8
ACIDITY:7
BODY:7
FLAVOR:8
AFTERTASTE:7
AGTRON:44/60

96
Roast: Medium-Light Review Date: December 2006
Origin: Kenya Price: $9.95/12oz
A coffee at once voluptuous and austere. Delicately complex aroma: flowers, chocolate, tobacco leaf, lemon grass. In the cup an amazingly rich, wine-like acidity, sweet flowers, and a gently crisp, dry berry fruit. Hints of chocolate re-emerge in the cleanly long, almost perfect finish.
AROMA:8
ACIDITY:9
BODY:8
FLAVOR:9
AFTERTASTE:9
AGTRON:55/72

92
Roast: Medium Review Date: December 2006
Origin: Boquete, Panama Price: NA
Very sweet-toned, exquisitely balanced aroma with floral, candied lemon and sweet herb notes. In the cup intense, tartly sweet acidity and buoyant mouthfeel with white wine and continued sweet lemon notes. The barest hint of chocolate in the cup blooms with soft explicitness in the surprisingly sweet finish. The cup stiffens ever so slightly as it cools.
AROMA:9
ACIDITY:8
BODY:8
FLAVOR:8
AFTERTASTE:9
AGTRON:47/62

91
Roast: Medium Review Date: August 2006
Origin: Colombia Price: NA
A deep, spicy floral character - dusk flowers, tea rose - leads in aroma and cup, supported by low-acid fruit notes - peach, cherry - and hints of milk chocolate and leather. The acidity is deep-toned and round, the finish rich and clean.
AROMA:9
ACIDITY:8
BODY:8
FLAVOR:8
AFTERTASTE:8
AGTRON:50/67

90
Roast: Medium Review Date: March 2006
Origin: Atitlan, Guatemala, Sumatra, Mexico Price: NA
(As brewed in a Keurig B60 single-serve brewing device using a "K-Cup" capsule at a cup volume of 5.25 ounces): A complex and rather exotic profile. Round, low-acid fruit (apple?) in the aroma, leaning toward chocolate, with a hint of flowers. In the cup lively, wine-like acidity, with apple, floral, chocolate, nutmeg-like spice notes. Chocolate and apple resurface in the long, quietly rich finish.
AROMA:8
ACIDITY:7
BODY:8
FLAVOR:8
AFTERTASTE:8
AGTRON:0/59

90
Roast: Medium-Light Review Date: November 2005
Origin: San Marcos, Guatemala Price: $8.45/12oz
A cabernet sort of coffee: boldly and richly dry, with fruit that reads as a wine-toned dry cherry or black currant with a rounding halo of chocolate. Tartly rich, long finish.
AROMA:8
ACIDITY:8
BODY:7
FLAVOR:8
AFTERTASTE:8
AGTRON:54/78

91
Roast: Medium Review Date: February 2005
Origin: Tanzania, Africa Price: $8.45/12oz
A tribute to the upside of slightly fermented fruit tones in coffee. Sweet and completely free of bitterness or saltiness, the ferment comes across as sweetly orange-toned in the aroma with a crisp hint of cedar, in the cup as a lushly ripe papaya- and peach-toned fruitiness that leans toward chocolate but never quite surrenders its tropical juiciness.
AROMA:8
ACIDITY:7
BODY:9
FLAVOR:8
AFTERTASTE:8
AGTRON:49/66

92
Roast: Medium-Dark Review Date: December 2004
Origin: Blend Price: NA
Delicate but deeply dimensioned aroma: distinct milk chocolate, hints of aromatic cedar and low-toned, temperate fruit: peach, perhaps, or apricot. Almost sugary sweet in the cup, light-bodied, with a tight-knit complexity centered on peach- or cherry-toned milk chocolate. The finish is short but refreshing.
AROMA:9
ACIDITY:7
BODY:7
FLAVOR:9
AFTERTASTE:7
AGTRON:42/52

92
Roast: Medium Review Date: December 2004
Origin: Blend Price: NA
A coffee that demonstrates the virtue of a dash of cleanly and sweetly fermented fruit taste in a blend. The aroma is low-toned and caramelly, with smoky and raisiny chocolate suggestions. The cup is roundly rich with a tingle of fermented fruit that reads as a raisin- or brandied-cherry-toned chocolate.
AROMA:8
ACIDITY:7
BODY:7
FLAVOR:8
AFTERTASTE:8
AGTRON:46/64

90
Roast: Medium Review Date: September 2004
Origin: Blend Price: NA
Balanced and classic. The acidity is sweet and well integrated, the mouthfeel round and cleanly smooth, the flavor rich and straightforward with coffee fruit (the closest analogy is red cherry) that hints gently at milk chocolate. Long, resonant finish.
AROMA:7
ACIDITY:8
BODY:8
FLAVOR:8
AFTERTASTE:8
AGTRON:39/67

92
Roast: Medium-Light Review Date: April 2004
Origin: Colombia, South American, Popayan Price: $6.95/12oz
A classic high-grown Latin-American profile: Cherry- and grape-toned fruit in the sweet, high-toned aroma. In the cup big and smooth-bodied, rich, sweetly but intensely acidy, with an essence-of-coffee fruit that edges toward chocolate.
AROMA:8
ACIDITY:8
BODY:8
FLAVOR:8
AFTERTASTE:8
AGTRON:55/68

94
Roast: Medium Review Date: April 2004
Origin: Kenya AA,Kenyan, African Price: $9.95/12oz
Simultaneously intensely acidy and extravagantly sweet, medium-bodied, with a whole basket of fruit tones: apricot, dry cherry, sweet lemon, a tiny whiff of chocolate, all lush, crisply rich, complex.
AROMA:9
ACIDITY:8
BODY:7
FLAVOR:9
AFTERTASTE:10
AGTRON:43/76

91
Roast: NA Review Date: January 2003
Origin: Jamaica Blue Mountain, Jamaican, Caribbean Price: $29.95/12oz
Reader Ben Anderson finds this Blue Mountain "phenomenal," a "yardstick example of the variety ... extremely complex and proportioned." Certainly a fine example of the Blue Mountain profile, far better than any production roast Blue Mountain I have cupped over the past few years: balanced, with resonant, bell-toned dimension and classic fruit notes of pure, essential coffee character.
AROMA:8
ACIDITY:8
BODY:7
FLAVOR:9
AFTERTASTE:7
AGTRON:g/wb

93
Roast: NA Review Date: December 1998
Origin: Price: NA
An elegant, extraordinary tribute to the pleasures of the sensation coffee people call acidity. Here the acidity is robustly dry yet alive with a full, fragrant sweetness. Everything dances and rings in this coffee.
AROMA:8
ACIDITY:8
BODY:7
FLAVOR:8
AFTERTASTE:7
AGTRON:/

90
Roast: Medium Review Date: February 1997
Origin: Price: NA
An exquisitely balanced traditional American-style coffee. The acidity is dry without astringency, alive with slight fruit or wine notes. Enveloped in the matrix of the body, it is always present but never dominant.
 
AROMA:7
ACIDITY:8
BODY:7
FLAVOR:8
AGTRON:56/65