Organization: Willoughby's Coffee & Tea, Branford, Connecticut
Coffee: Colombia Micro-Lot Huila La Argentina
Reviewed: February 2008
Overall Rating: 93 points
Roast (Agtron): Medium (52/60)
Estimated Price:
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Origin: Huila Department, Colombia.

Notes: This coffee is grown at very high altitudes by small producers in southwest Huila Department. Willoughby's Coffee & Tea is a pioneer specialty coffee roaster recently reinvigorated and refocused on artisan roasting and a very extensive collection of elite single-origin coffees. Visit www.willoughbyscoffee.com or call 800-388-8400 for more information.

Blind Assessment: Delicate but intense aroma, with milk chocolate, nut and coffee fruit notes that read as tart cherry. In the cup impressive balance and structure: lushly sweet but crisply acidy with a lightly syrupy mouthfeel. Continued tart cherry and chocolate notes carry into a simple but cleanly rich finish.

Who should drink it: Great intensity, presence and classic simplicity (in Art 101 terms, more Doric than Ionic).

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