Reviews for Paradise Roasters
Intricately sweet, delicately complex. Ripe strawberry, orange, candied nut, vanilla-toned flowers in aroma and cup. Gently crisp acidity; light but smoothly silky mouthfeel. Very sweet, lightly flavor-saturated finish.
Price: $24.95/10 ounces
Complex, with a savory-sweet depth. Roasted cocoa-nib, jasmine, cedar, honey, orange zest in aroma and cup. Bright, bittersweet acidity; light but very silky mouthfeel. Citrus and floral notes in particular persist in a crisp but resonant finish.
Gently bright, sweetly crisp. Fresh-cut fir, almond, honeysuckle-like flowers, lemon curd in aroma and cup. Delicate, soft acidity; silky mouthfeel. Surprisingly rich, resonant finish.
Price: $12.95/12 ounces
Evaluated as espresso. In the small cup complex aroma and flavor: dark chocolate, honey, night-florals, grape-like fruit, pungent cedar. Impressively syrupy mouthfeel. Flavor consolidates in a sweet though drying finish. Balanced and rather brisk in two parts milk: chocolate, cedar, flowers.
Delicately but giddily complex. Honey, narcissus, sweet chocolate, softly tart tangerine in aroma and cup. Gentle but vibrant acidity; light but syrupy mouthfeel. Remarkably sweet and flavor-saturated though slightly drying in a long, complexly developing finish.
Price: $24.95/10 ounces
Zesty, pungent, deep. Cedar, hazelnut, zesty lemon, honey, dark chocolate in aroma and cup. Slight savory hint in the cup. Gently tart, smoothly integrated acidity; lightly syrupy mouthfeel. Clean, rather simple finish.
Price: $16.95/12 ounces
Delicately complex, crisp. Milk chocolate, raspberry-like fruit, a hint of night-blooming flowers in aroma and cup. Brisk, softly tart acidity; silky mouthfeel. Sweet, juicy, resonant finish.
Very sweet, ripe lemon dominates aroma and cup, with prune, fig and molasses complications. Bright, assertive acidity; lightly syrupy, buoyantly lively mouthfeel. The lemon carries deep into a long, resonant finish.
Evaluated as espresso. Pungent, opulent, deep. Mango, apricot, dark chocolate, dusk flowers in aroma and small cup. Full, buttery mouthfeel; richly drying, flavor-saturated finish. Dominates two parts milk; requires about four parts to fully round and plump up.
Bracingly bittersweet in structure and briskly complex in flavor. Flowers, honey, raspberry, nut-toned cocoa and more in aroma and cup. Crisp, lemony acidity; light but silky mouthfeel. The same exhilarating balance of sweet and bitter prevails in a cocoa-toned finish.
Price: $13.95/12 ounces
Evaluated as espresso. Sweet-toned, buttery character: dark chocolate and apricot in the aroma, complicated in the small cup by more pungent notes of anise and cedar. Lightly syrupy, balanced mouthfeel; rich, long finish. In two parts milk crisp, smooth, balanced: milk chocolate, almond, a hint of orangy or apricot-like fruit.
Evaluated as espresso. Nut-toned caramel and dark chocolate with hints of lemon-like tart fruit and a faint glimmer of fresh mint in aroma and cup. Syrupy mouthfeel; chocolate-toned finish with a tart edge. Delicate in two parts milk, where the chocolate and sweet citrus notes complement one another nicely.
Price: $14.95/12 ounces
Intense aroma and flavor, with spicy, jasmine-like flowers, zesty lime and a hint of sweet cocoa. Crisply delicate acidity; smooth, silky mouthfeel. Flavor carries deep into a tart, rather bittersweet finish.
Price: $64.95/10 ounces
Bright, high-toned complexity: sweet, rose-like floral notes, milk chocolate, lemony cherry, a hint of pungent fir. Rich, zesty acidity; lightly syrupy mouthfeel. The finish is deep and long with echoes of flowers and chocolate.
Evaluated as espresso. Delicate, floral- and caramel-toned aroma. In the small cup the caramel drops back and a pungent, lemony cedar dominates, complicated by continuing floral top notes. Lightly syrupy mouthfeel. Caramel returns with the flowers in the finish. Almost loses its way in two parts milk, but the caramel turns pleasantly chocolaty and the cedar contributes some authority.
Evaluated as espresso. Great depth and complex range in aroma and flavor: crisp walnut and dark chocolate, cedary anise, lemon and floral top notes. Heavy, satiny mouthfeel; long, rich, sweetly resonant finish. Surprisingly delicate in two parts milk, but ultimately a sweet but complex chocolate, toffee- and mint-toned, impresses.
Rich, deep, pungently sweet in aroma and cup: orange, dark chocolate, raisin, a luxurious hint of citrus blossom. Quiet, round acidity; full mouthfeel. Flavor fades in the short finish but recovers and extends impressively in the long.
Sweet-toned, headily complex aroma: honey, nut, milk chocolate, flowers, orange. In the cup rich, wine-like acidity, lightly syrupy mouthfeel. Under the influence of the acidity the aromatics turn tarter, deeper and perhaps simpler. Clean, resonant finish.
A relatively light roast develops this pure high-grown coffee’s giddy natural sweetness, delicately bright acidity and tart fruit notes. Light, silky mouthfeel. The tart fruit softens toward chocolate in the finish.
Sweetly and richly pungent: cedar, grapefruit, freshly turned earth in aroma and cup. Rich, roundly bright acidity; medium body; silky mouthfeel. The citrus turns orangy in a fine, flavor-saturated finish.