Organization: Millstone Coffees, Cincinnati, Ohio
Coffee: Colombian Supremo
Reviewed: January 2003
Overall Rating: 87 points
Roast (Agtron): NA (0/0)
Estimated Price:
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Origin: Colombia.

Notes: Supremo is the highest grade of Colombia coffee, with the main grading criterion being size of bean. Millstone is coffee giant Procter & Gamble's serious and well-run specialty arm. Visit www.millstone.com for more info.

Blind Assessment: A classic medium-roasted Latin-American cup, acidy but distinctly sweet and free of bitterness. The acidity displays some pleasant complication: tangy, grapefruity, perhaps spicy. Nominating reader John Schulz of Northglenn, Colorado rates his sample 90 - 94, finding it "rich and complex, with subtle winey notes." I tasted no wine notes in the sample I brought home, but wine - sweet fermented fruit - notes are quite common in contemporary Colombia coffees and doubtless appear in other batches of the Millstone presentation.

Who should drink it: Wine notes or no wine notes, this is a fine American breakfast cup, sweet enough to be drunk black but dry enough to complement the pancakes.

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