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Alterra Coffee Roasters

Costa Rica Lomas al Rio

Roaster Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Roast Level: Medium-Dark
Agtron: 42/48
Review Date: November 1998
Aroma: 8
Acidity: 6
Body: 7
Flavor: 7

Blind Assessment

Ingratiating and open, this coffee makes the most of what it brings to the cup. Not bright but gently lively, nicely balanced between sweet and dry tones, with a pleasant supporting resonance. As the cup cools a slight, almost indistinguishable (storage-related?) hardness seems to shadow the sweetness.

Notes

This certified organic coffee is exported by a coffee mill. It is ingratiating and open, not bright but gently lively, nicely balanced between sweet and dry tones, with a pleasant supporting resonance. Lomas al Rio is not a farm, but a coffee mill and exporter, which means this coffee could have come from one of a number of farms pursuing organic growing processes northwest of the Costa Rican capital of San Jose. Alterra Coffee Roasters, founded in Mil

Who Should Drink It

People who prefer things that are sweetly happy but dryly unsentimental.

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This review originally appeared in the November, 1998 tasting report: Single-Origin Organic Coffees

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