Organization: Coffee Klatch, San Dimas, California
Coffee: Panama Elida Natural
Reviewed: November 2008
Overall Rating: 95 points
Roast (Agtron): Medium-Light (57/81)
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Origin: Boquete growing region, western Panama

Notes: Produced by the award-winning Elida Estate, this is a dry-processed or "natural" coffee, meaning the beans were dried inside the fruit rather than after the fruit is removed, as is the case with wet-processed or "washed" coffees. Coffee Klatch is an award-winning small-batch roasting company in the Los Angeles area whose resident barista and trainer, Heather Perry, won both the 2003 and 2007 United States Barista Championships brewing a Coffee Klatch espresso blend. Visit www.klatchroasting.com or call 877-455-2824 for more information.

Blind Assessment: Intense aroma: sweet cherry and blueberry notes ride a pungent, fresh-cut cedar. In the cup the berry and cedar notes turn toward red wine and crisp cocoa. Sweet, rich, cocoa- and berry-saturated finish.

Who should drink it: Simultaneously crisp and lush, a fine example of the new dried-in-the-fruit coffee emerging from Central America.

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