Blind Assessment: Pungent, deep, sweetly nut-toned. Brown sugar, cashew, orange, cherry, a hint of lily-like flowers in aroma and cup. Quiet, rich acidity; lightly syrupy mouthfeel. Flavor consolidates around the cherry-like fruit note in a sweet, resonant finish.

Notes: This exceptional coffee was selected as the #27 coffee in the Coffee Review Top 30 Coffees of 2014. Good Land Organics is an organic producer of rare and exotic fruit. On its farm in the coastal foothills near the southern California city of Santa Barbara it also is experimenting with producing coffee from a wide range of tree varieties, including the Caturra that produced this sample. Certified organically grown. Visit www.goodlandorganics.com or call 805-685-4189 for more information.

Who Should Drink It : A curiosity from close to home, this first-ever California-grown coffee is impressively balanced, deep and quietly intricate.