Organization: Terroir Coffee, Acton, Massachusetts
Coffee: Daterra Farm Espresso: North Italian Style
Reviewed: August 2004
Overall Rating: 92 points
Roast (Agtron): Medium (54/66)
Estimated Price:
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Origin: Cerrado region, Minas Gerais State, Brazil

Notes: Brazil is the world's leading producer of naturally sweet, low-acid coffees used as the basis of the world's premium espresso blends. Daterra is one of the most innovative of the large, quality-oriented Brazilian farms. Terroir is a recently established microroaster selling only elite single-origin coffees, no blends. It stores its green coffees frozen in nitrogen-flushed containers and specializes in medium roast styles designed to foreground the character of the green coffee. Terroir is the creation of George Howell, one of the world's leading coffee visionaries and authorities. Visit www.terroircoffee.com or call 866-444-5282 for more information.

Blind Assessment: In the small cup deeply sweet, with a heavy, buttery mouthfeel and carnal fruit tones: papaya, mango, bittersweet chocolate. Exceptional in milk: very sweet with chocolate-toned fruit of almost lyric lift and complexity balanced by a dry, authoritative finish.

Who should drink it: Robust voluptuaries.

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