Organization: Paradise Roasters, Ramsey, Minnesota
Coffee: Colombia Tolima Jairo Guiterrez Micro-Lot 07
Reviewed: February 2008
Overall Rating: 95 points
Aroma: 9
Acidity: 8
Body: 8
Flavor: 10
Aftertaste: 9
Roast (Agtron): Medium (52/59)
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Origin: Tolima Department, east-central Colombia

Notes: This is a very micro micro-lot, weighing only 350 pounds, selected from the 15-acre farm of Jairo Guiterrez. Paradise Roasters prides itself on roasting and shipping coffee only after orders are placed. Its metaphoric mission is to bring some paradisiacal warmth from the coffee-growing south to the cool environs of Minnesota. Visit www.paradiseroasters.com or call 763-433-0626 for more information.

Blind Assessment: Intense, balanced aroma: cedar, cherry, flowers, orange. In the cup syrupy body with an almost bouillon-like richness, deeply but quietly acidy, with floral high notes and a wonderfully deep cherry- and cedar-toned chocolate. The pungent chocolate/fruit notes carry into a long, flavor-saturated finish.

Who should drink it: A coffee so intensely and completely classic that it becomes, essentially, something new and distinctive.

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