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Recent Reviews
Kenya Mamuto (96 points) from Terroir Coffee is one of many impressive coffees recently reviewed that did not appear in a featured article.
Cupping Calendar
In December, we review expensive, rare, and exceptional coffees that are suited for holiday gift-giving.
Featured Coffee
El Salvador Finca Kilimanjaro (95 points) from PT's Coffee is reminiscent of great Kenyan coffees, with more flowers and strawberry, less black currant.
Sustainable Coffee
Visit our extensive coffee reference section to learn more sustainable coffees and other socially- and environmentally-friendly coffees.
Nominations
Nominate your favorite coffees for December's cupping - Gift Coffees: The Expensive, the Rare, the Exceptional. Submission deadline is November 10.
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The world's largest coffee organization.
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Kenneth Davids
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In 1997, the Coffee Review began conducting blind, expert cuppings of coffees and publishing reviews in a ground-breaking 100-point format, similar to those in the wine industry. Our goal, then and now, is to entertain and educate coffee lovers, 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 world's most respected and widely read coffee publications.
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Unassuming Beauty: Coffees of El Salvador and Honduras
By Kenneth Davids; reviews by Kenneth Davids and Ted Stachura | November 2008 |
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Leaders of El Salvador's growing specialty coffee sector are quick to point out what they feel are the particular strengths of their origin. First, large plantings of coffee varieties particularly respected for their flavor and character, and second, generally impeccable preparation of those varieties. This month's cupping of nearly thirty El Salvador coffees from twenty-two American specialty roasters seems to support this confidence. The best of these coffees display both a quiet distinctiveness (presumably reflecting distinguished botanical variety) and clarity of profile (reflecting careful fruit removal and drying). We received only three samples of Honduras coffees, where the industry ... |
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The Budget Aficionado: Top Value Single-Origin Coffees
By Kenneth Davids; reviews by Kenneth Davids and Ted Stachura | October 2008 |
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When we made a decision last year to do an article aimed at finding great coffees at rock-bottom prices, we had no idea that the publication of this article would coincide with one of the most dismal times in recent American economic history. Our intention then was simply to find some bargain coffees to balance the more expensive selections that were beginning to dominate ratings at Coffee Review. True, our position has always been that fine coffee when brewed at home is a wildly underpriced beverage compared to wines of comparable quality. Nevertheless, we reasoned that there are many... |
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The Rainforest Alternative: Twelve plus One Rainforest-Certified Coffees
By Kenneth Davids; reviews by Kenneth Davids and Ted Stachura | September 2008 |
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It has been well over ten years since the Sustainable Agriculture Network launched the Rainforest Alliance Certified program for coffee. Unlike the more widely publicized Fair-Trade certification, which is principally a socio-economically focused certification aimed mainly at helping democratically-run cooperatives of small-holding, peasant growers achieve better prices for their coffees, Rainforest Alliance offers a comprehensive program with environmental, social and economic criteria open to all growers who meet its certification standards, including larger, centrally managed farms. Of course both certifications attempt to cover all issues: Fair-Trade certification applies environmentally-oriented criteria as well as socio-economic, and Rainforest Alliance... |
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Coffees of Kenya: Still Struggling, Still Great
By Kenneth Davids | August 2008 |
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I'm often asked for my opinion on the world's best coffee. Not a particularly informed question, but once it's clear that my questioner is asking for the name of a country rather than for the name of a farm or cooperative, I respond that the world's most reliably good coffee comes from Kenya. I hasten to offer additional caveats: great coffees come from all countries, Kenya is too acidy for espresso, etc., but at that point the questioner's eyes typically glaze and we move on to something else.
Amazingly, Kenya's coffees continue to shine despite a cascade of problems:... |
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The rapidly increasing number of requests for objective reviews by Kenneth Davids and the Coffee Review is greater than our publication calendar can accomodate. Consequently, we now offer three ways to obtain coffee evaluations by Kenneth Davids.
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