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The Kenya Gituto (93 points) from Primavera Coffee Roasters is one of many impressive coffees recently reviewed that did not appear in a featured article.
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Coffee Review's 2008 cupping calendar is now available.
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The Brazil Fazenda Boa Vista from Coffee Klatch is much quieter than Kenya but just as sweetly tart and complex (94 points).
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Kenneth Davids
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In 1997, the Coffee Review began conducting blind, expert cuppings of coffees and reported the findings in a ground-breaking format: 100-point reviews, like those that exist in the wine industry. Our goal, then and now, is to entertain and educate coffee drinkers, the coffee trade, and food service professionals with a credible and easy-to-use coffee guide based on objective reviews from some of the most experienced individuals in the specialty coffee industry. Over the past decade, CoffeeReview.com has become one of the most respected and widely read coffee publications in the world.
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"S" as in Sexy: New Specialty Offerings from Brazil
By Kenneth Davids and Ted Stachura | May 2008 |
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The fact that at least half of the American roasters submitting coffees for this month's cupping spelled Brazil with an "s" - the Portuguese-Brazilian spelling - may be symptomatic of what has happened of late to the reputation of high-end coffees from that country. The spelling implies that these are not your old-fashioned, low-grown, stolid Brazils of years past, but Brasils with an "s" - something exotic, interesting, perhaps sexy. Maybe not divas of the cupping room, but exciting performers, as evidenced by the twelve distinguished and distinctive coffees reviewed this month.
How the world's largest coffee producer can be ... |
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Special Reserve is Dead. Long Live Special Reserve.
By Kenneth Davids | April 2008 |
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Two or three years ago, offering small, distinctive lots of coffee on a temporary, seasonal basis and calling them "special reserve" or "limited edition" appeared to be one of the most promising trends in specialty coffee. These offerings proposed to wean coffee drinkers from expecting the same kind of consistency in single-origin coffees as they might expect from brands of beer or soft drinks: The expectation that this year's "Kenya AA" would taste the same as last year's, for example. Instead, the special reserve concept emphasized coffee as an excitingly mutable, seasonal specialty agricultural product: On any given year... |
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Decaffeinated Single-Origins: A Slow Tour with Limited Stops
By Kenneth Davids | March 2008 |
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How deep a flavor rut are coffee drinkers stuck in if they give up caffeine? Are they eternally condemned to token decaf blends at the end of the counter, or can they tour the world by cup, or try to save it by cup, like their caffeine-consuming colleagues?
Based on this month's cupping of decaffeinated single-origin coffees, options are rather limited when you travel by decaf. A couple of excellent Sumatras surfaced, including the top-ranked Paradise Roasters (92) and a classic example from Hood River Coffee (88). Sumatras, with their strong, unorthodox, earthy character, tend to take well to decaffeination,... |
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Juan Valdez's Progeny: Micro-Lot and Other Fine Colombias
By Kenneth Davids | February 2008 |
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This month's cupping of coffees from Colombia confirms that this giant among coffee producers has successfully turned at least a portion of its industry from supplier of immense quantities of good-but-not-great generic "100% Colombian" coffee to prized source of smaller (sometimes tiny) lots of subtly distinctive specialty coffees. Handsome symbol Juan Valdez and his photogenic mule are being joined by growing numbers of actual small-holding farmers with pickup trucks instead of mules, distinctive-tasting coffees and real names: Humberto Gonzales, Odair Achipiz, Jairo Guiterrez, Alvaro Quintero, Javier Ladino, to name five whose coffees appear in this month's reviews.
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