85	Thanksgiving Coffee Fort Bragg, California Nicaraguan Maragogipe Light Roast Roast: NA Review Date: June 2000 Origin: Matagalpa growing region, west-central Nicaragua. Price: NA

Blind Assessment: A coffee that requires patience. The aroma is rather flat, the cup smoothly full but inert. A pleasant chocolate sensation surprises in the finish, however, and the aftertaste is sweet, rich and long.

Notes: A pleasant chocolate sensation surprises in the finish and the aftertaste is sweet, rich and long. Maragogipe is a botanical variety of the arabica species that produces a very large bean, although this particular coffee comes from a cross of the original big-beaned Maragogipe with the compact-growing caturra. From the 1998/99 crop. Thanksgiving Coffee

Who Should Drink It: Those who avoid drama, at least in regard to their coffee. Should please coffee drinkers who prefer smoothness to brightness, weight to acidity.

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