Organization: White Cloud Mountain Coffee, Boise, Idaho
Coffee: Guatemala Pure Organic
Reviewed: November 1998
Overall Rating: 84 points
Roast (Agtron): Medium-Dark (47/54)
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Origin: Guatemala

Notes: Produced by a co-op of small farmers. This coffee has a complex, shifty profile. When the cup is hot, explicit vanilla tones with suggestion of spice, are balanced by deep-toned, pungent tartness. Produced by the Guaya'b (Mayan: "Mutual Support") cooperative of small farmers. LifeFoods is a new line of organic coffees from White Cloud Mountain Coffee.

Blind Assessment: A complex, shifty profile. When the cup is hot, explicit vanilla tones with a hovering suggestion of spice are balanced by a deep-toned, rather pungent tartness. As the cup cools the vanilla sweetens toward caramel and the spice turns vaguely fruity. Perhaps all of the spice and pungency adds up to the famous "smokiness" often attributed to Guatemalas.

Who should drink it: If there are classic coffees, then this one is baroque, all squiggles and surprises.

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