Coffee Review’s tasting reports aim to answer coffee questions that can only be answered by tasting the coffees that pose the questions. Usually, this means blind-tasting a whole lot of coffees — 50 to 100 per article — and reporting honestly on what we find, including calling attention to the finest of these coffees with reviews and ratings. In 2025, we plan five such tasting
A Deeper Look at the Top 30 Coffees of 2024
In 2024, Coffee Review blind-tasted over 3,000 coffee samples from hundreds of leading roasting companies and coffee producers around the world. Over the course of the year, we published more than 600 reviews on CoffeeReview.com. The Top 30 Coffees of 2024 list is our editors’ ranking of the 30 most exciting of these coffees, representing roughly 1 percent of the samples we cupped and 5 percent
A Deeper Look at Coffee Review’s Top 30 Coffees of 2023
In 2023, Coffee Review blind-tasted more than 3,000 coffee samples from hundreds of leading roasting companies and coffee producers around the world. We ultimately published nearly 600 reviews on CoffeeReview.com over the course of the year. The Top 30 Coffees of 2023 is our editors’ ranking of the 30 most exciting of these coffees, representing roughly 5 percent of the coffees we
An In-Depth Look at the Top 30 Coffees of 2022
In 2022, Coffee Review blind-tasted more than 2,500 samples from leading roasting companies and coffee producers, 530 of which we reviewed on www.coffeereview.com. The Top 30 Coffees of 2022 represents a further selection: a ranking of the 30 most exciting of these coffees. This year’s list represents the 10th year we have compiled our Top 30 list of the most exciting coffees we have tasted
An In-Depth Look at the Top 30 Coffees of 2021
Coffee Review’s list of the Top 30 Coffees of 2021 represents our ninth annual ranking of the most exciting coffees we tested over the course of the year. This annual effort supports our mission of helping consumers identify and purchase superior quality coffees and, in the process, helping drive demand and increase prices to reward farmers and roasters who invest time, passion and capital in
The Year 2020 in Coffee: Challenges, Trends, Surprises & Knockouts
In 2020, COVID-19 devastated lives and businesses, challenging the global specialty coffee community to its core. On the producing side, the pandemic added still another daunting challenge to growers facing endemic low coffee prices and an ongoing battle with leaf rust disease in Latin America. On the consuming side, roasters saw the pandemic shutter their bread-and-butter café businesses while
