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Recent Reviews
Mele 100% Kona (92 points) from Hula Daddy is one of many impressive coffees recently reviewed that did not appear in a featured article.
McCafe vs. Starbucks
We sampled four different hot, espresso-based beverages from McDonald's and Starbucks to evaluate the quality behind the coffee marketing war.
Featured Coffee
Burundi Kinyovu (95 points) from Kaldi's Coffee Roasting is a complete expression of a Central Africa profile: balance, richness, complexly expressed acidity, silky body, pungently floral aromatics.
Burundi
Visit our extensive coffee reference section to learn more about Burundi and other Central African coffee origins.
Nominations
Nominate your favorite coffees for upcoming coffee cuppings.
Help: Sitemap
Our site map will help you find answers to many of your coffee-related questions.
Interview with Ken in Australian Magazine
Read an interview with Kenneth Davids in Crema, an Australian coffee magazine.
Tasting Super-Heroes
Ken's co-taster in May, Counter Culture's Byron Holcomb, comments on his recent experience tasting espressos.
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Our Sponsors
The goal of the Coffee Review is to entertain and educate
coffee lovers, food service professionals, and the coffee
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Don Francisco Coffee
1-800-697-JAVA(5282)
F. Gaviña & Sons is a family-owned and managed roaster in the Los Angeles area whose upscale Don Francisco's line of specialty coffees is named after Francisco Gaviña, who was born and raised on the family coffee plantation in Cuba and whose four children now manage the company with a passion for coffee and tradition. Gaviña prides itself on offering a large range of roast styles and origins, all of which embody their commitment to supplying "real coffee from real coffee people."
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Après Coffee
877-777-3451
Après is a seller of quality gourmet coffees, espressos, teas, and chocolate presented in impressively distinctive packaging at reasonable prices. The company also offers attractive personalized messaging for special occasions or corporate gifting.
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La Bean Coffee
845-647-1500
Based in the Catskill Mountains of New York, La Bean Coffee is a small roasting company that serves wholesale and Internet retail customers with fresh roasted coffee. La Bean is passionate about coffee quality and distinction and focuses its business practices on social and philanthropic goals of sustainability and fairness. A Fair Trade Certified roaster, La Bean donates coffee to local nonprofit groups that help the homeless and children with special needs. La Bean promises to roast and ship coffee within 24 hours of ordering.
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Alaska Coffee Roasting
907-457-5282
Alaska Coffee Roaster owner Michael Gesser knows coffee, having spent ten years in Kenya, and has personally traveled to every major coffee growing region. The coffees he brings to the shop are some of the best single-origin and varietals on the market. His hand-selected roasters are attentive to the dynamic chemistry of the beans during the roasting process, and along with a strong familiarity with each different coffee, bring out the very best in each.
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Coffee Gifts and Coffee Baskets
800-589-7553
Design It Yourself Gifts & Baskets is a leading online retailer of upscale gift
baskets and unique gifts. Product lines include everything from gourmet coffee
gift baskets to unique holiday gifts. Located in Houston, Texas, Design It
Yourself Gifts & Baskets ships to the entire United States and offers same day
courier delivery in Houston. Orders may be placed online 24 hours a day from
their website.
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Barrington Coffee Roasting Company
800-528-0998
Barrington Coffee is passionate about discovering the world's finest and most exciting coffees each season, roasting them to perfection and delivering fresh to customers. They believe that a truly great coffee should be roasted to highlight its inherent quality without imparting overwhelming roast. Providing exquisite coffee and exceptional service since 1993.
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The Roasterie
1-800-376-0245
The Roasterie is a different kind of coffee roasting company. Founder Danny O'Neill searches the world over to find the absolute best coffees available. The Roasterie then carefully air-roasts each varietal to its individual peak before packaging its coffees in state-of-the-art valve bags for immediate delivery.
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Willoughbys Coffee & Tea
800-388-8400
Willoughby's Coffee & Tea was founded in 1985 by Bob Williams and Barry Levine. For more than twenty years, the company's core mission has been to produce the finest and freshest coffee beans possible and deliver products and service that are unparalleled in the marketplace. Five guiding principles - Quality, Freshness, Value, Service, and Commitment - ensure customers always enjoy "Serious Coffee."®
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SpecialtyJava.com
1-888-586-JAVA
Unlike wine, roasted coffee does not improve with age. SpecialtyJava.com imports the world's finest specialty coffee beans, fresh roasts each order, and ships within hours. Music theme blends such as Smooth Jazz, Rock N' Java, New York New York, and Constant Cravings reflect the encouragement the founder received from a well-known musician friend to start this gourmet coffee roastery. Today, SpecialtyJava.com satisfies over 3,500 wholesale and retail specialty coffee customer accounts throughout the USA.
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Island Joes Coffee
305-294-1190
From a gas station in Marathon, Florida to an international shipper, Island Joe's Coffee was started by a dad, two sons and a daughter, truly an "American Dream" come true. Now located in old town Key West, Florida, Island Joe's is quickly becoming recognized worldwide. We import and roast with passion, some of the finest green coffee beans in the world. "The Proof is in the Cup."
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Terroir Coffee
1-866-444-5282
Terroir Coffee is an elite, genuinely artisan coffee company that only roasts coffees from individual farms or cooperatives, preserves them green in special storage conditions, and roasts them with a light touch to preserve the unique character of each coffee. Terroir is the creation of George Howell, an innovative, leading figure in the American specialty coffee industry.
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Paradise Roasters
877-229-6336
Paradise Roasters is a family-run wholesale and direct-to-consumer coffee
roasting business staffed by people with a passion for coffees of distinction and quality and a goal of balancing old traditions with newtechnology. Paradise expertly roasts the finest coffees available to order
and ships them within 24 hours for best freshness and flavor. Since its inception Paradise has been a leader in the specialty industry partnering with the best coffee importers, exporters, and farmers to develop andintroduce coffees that are more than just great - they're Paradise!
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Coffee Klatch Roasting
877-455-2824
Coffee Klatch is an award-winning small-batch roasting company in the Los Angeles area with a recently established but quite distinguished record as a coffee leader and innovator. Roastermaster Mike Perry blends a background in chemical engineering with a love for great coffee to balance science and art in creating consistently outstanding, highly rated coffees and espressos. Resident barista and trainer, Heather Perry, won the 2003 United States Barista Championship brewing a Coffee Klatch espresso blend.
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PTs Coffee
888-678-5282
PT's Coffee was founded in a side room of a Topeka, Kansas restaurant in 1993, making it one of Kansas's oldest small-batch
specialty coffee roasters. Today it continues its emphasis on artisan roasting, freshness, and a large range of fine coffees sourced directly from origin. PT's sells its freshly-roasted coffees on the Internet, at two lively retail outlets, and offers full-service support to wholesale customers. Its baristas have compiled an impressive record of success in local and national competitions, and its coffees consistently appear at the top of local media polls.
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CafeVivo
949-625-2560
CafeVivo is a coffee lovers' club providing its members with on-demand roasted coffee. Coffee is roasted and shipped directly to customers after each order, and is delivered in a few days for the superior taste that can only be obtained from the freshest coffee possible. Members also receive delivery each month of beans from origins around the world, including Sumatra and other islands of Indonesia, Central and South America, Oaxaca, Ethiopia and Papua New Guinea, to name a few. CafeVivo roasts in San Diego, California and strives to provide a truly unique boutique membership for all coffee drinkers.
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Boca Java Gourmet Coffee
888-262-2528
Boca Java was founded out of the pursuit for the perfect cup of fresh-roasted, gourmet coffee. The company roasts to order, uses only handpicked specialy-grade Arabica beans and places an emphasis on freshness and quality.
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Green Mountain Coffee
1-800-223-6768
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters has developed from a one-store roaster-café in Waitsfield, Vermont, to a publicly traded company supplying premium coffees to over 6,700 customer accounts. It remains remarkably true to its original vision as a coffee roaster dedicated to quality in the cup and quality of life and environment in coffee-growing regions.
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GreatCoffee.com
1-866-240-0033
GreatCoffee.com is a leading online retailer of highly rated coffees, equipment, and gifts. The company specializes in convenient home and office delivery of exceptional coffees and equipment that have earned top ratings from the Coffee Review.
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Doi Chaang Coffee
866-9-CHAANG
Doi Chaang is a rare, single-estate coffee produced by a northern Thailand hill tribe in the Golden Triangle mountains of Thailand. Produced by 800 families under shade using sustainable agricultural methods and traditional processing and drying methods, Doi Chaang is 100% natural Arabica coffee and is freshly roasted in Alberta, Canada. The independent coffee growers receive over 50% of the profits of this unusual and pioneering venture.
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Bellissimo Coffee Group
1-800-655-3955
Through its ground-breaking educational and training videos, its books, and its consulting services, Bellissimo and founder Bruce Milletto have supplied inspiration and guidance to an entire generation of newcomers to specialty coffee.
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