87	Thanksgiving Coffee Co. Fort Bragg, California Harvest Dixie Gold Decaf Roast: Dark Review Date: September 1998 Origin: Various Price: NA

Blind Assessment: A gentle cup that seduces rather than imposes. Saved from the ordinary by a soft, rounded complexity and impressive dimension. Warmly pungent tones, faintly tobaccoish or herby, soften toward chocolate in the finish.

Notes: A blend of lighter- and darker-roasted beans from a Nicaraguan cooperative pursuing certified organic farming practices. Decaffeinated by the solvent-free "Swiss Water" method. A gentle cup that seduces rather than imposes. A blend of lighter- and darker-roasted beans from the same source, a Nicaraguan cooperative pursuing certified organic farming practices. The coffee was decaffeinated by the solvent-free "Swiss Water" method. From the 1998 crop. Thanksgiving Coffee, fou

Who Should Drink It: A no-peas-under-the-mattress coffee. Environmentally correct, caffeine-free, residue-free, low in acidity, but with enough quiet intrigue to make fastidious princesses and princes want to test the mattress.

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