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Fair-Trade Coffees: The Controversy and the Cup

By Kenneth Davids
September 4th, 2007

96

Allegro Coffee

Rwanda Karaba Fair Trade

Review Date: Sep 2007

Intense, high-toned aroma: flowers, butterscotch, orange. In the cup wine-like acidity, deep body and a continued buttery, honeyed, giddily floral character complicated by tart cherry, orange and pipe tobacco notes. Long, rich, flavor-saturated finish.

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93

Terroir Coffee

Kenya Kangocho Nyeri Fair Trade

Review Date: Sep 2007

In the aroma pungent black cherry and berry notes with lush undercurrents of orange and honey. The cedary berry notes carry richly into the cup with a continued sweet envelopment of orange and honey. Deep, long finish.

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93

JBC Coffee Roasters

Ethiopian Yirgacheffe Fair Trade Organic

Review Date: Sep 2007
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A lucidly pure, deeply sweet coffee. In aroma and cup lavish floral notes and gently tart coffee fruit complicate molasses and honey tones that sail with gentle voluptuousness into a long finish.

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91

Willoughby's Coffee & Tea

Rwanda Rushashi Fair Trade

Review Date: Sep 2007
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Intense, floral-toned aroma with pungent suggestions of prune and cedary chocolate. In the cup very smoothly balanced, with soft acidity, silky mouthfeel and a richly dry, distinct cocoa that sustains its presence in the long finish.

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91

Wonderstate Coffee

Rwanda

Review Date: Sep 2007
Price: NA

Very sweet-toned aroma with distinct floral and fresh coffee fruit notes. In the cup sustains its sweetness with a delicate intensity and continued floral and fresh coffee fruit (tart cherry) notes that carry into a long, richly bright finish.

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90

The Roasterie

Sumatra Fair Trade – Organic Line

Review Date: Sep 2007

In the aroma deeply pungent with a sweet earthy mustiness that suggests grapefruit with additional hints of honey and chocolate. In the cup full body with pleasantly rough mouthfeel and continued earthy notes that read as chocolate, honey and pungent citrus. Rich finish with a slight clinging astringency.

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90

Batdorf & Bronson

Nicaragua Organic Fair Trade

Review Date: Sep 2007
Price: NA

A balanced, quietly complete cup. Simple but harmonious aroma: chocolate-toned with a hint of cedar. In the cup gently rich acidity, smooth mouthfeel, muted night flowers, milk chocolate, tart cherry. Resonant finish.

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90

PT's Coffee Roasting Co.

Peace Blend

Review Date: Sep 2007

Soft aroma with a quiet, tightly-knit complexity: cocoa, cedar, hints of honey and melon. In the cup light-bodied, delicate, with sustaining hints of honey, cocoa, sweet flowering grass. Short but clean, honeyed finish.

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90

Barefoot Coffee Roasters

Brazil Poco Fundo Fair Trade

Review Date: Sep 2007

A slight musty fruit ferment serendipitously complicates this richly low-key coffee, reading as cocoa and cedar-toned ripe orange in both aroma and cup. A very slight astringency smoothes out in the long, sweet finish.

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89

Moka Joe Coffee

Bolivia Caranavi

Review Date: Sep 2007

Deep, gently charred tones in the aroma are complicated by semi-sweet chocolate, low-key fruit and distinct floral top notes. In the cup medium-bodied but pleasingly bananaish in mouthfeel, with a continued gently charred, deeply roasty character. The floral notes dissipate but the fundamental chocolate-banana-toned fruit persists into the slightly tight finish.

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89

JBC Coffee Roasters

Guatemala Huehuetenango Fair Trade Organic

Review Date: Sep 2007
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Deep, sweet-toned aroma with cedar and muted hints of flowers, orange and semi-sweet chocolate. In the cup softly acidy, rather full-bodied, with continued hints of flowers and orange- and peach-toned fruit. Rich finish.

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88

Dean's Beans

Organic Fair Trade Italian Espresso Roast

Review Date: Sep 2007

Evaluated as a regular brewed coffee rather than as espresso. In the aroma roundly and deeply roasty: cedar, cardamom, flowers. In the cup crisply pungent, smooth, simple, with a roast-influenced fruit that with imagination reads as semi-sweet chocolate. Cleanly rich finish.

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