Blind Assessment: A classic American breakfast coffee: intensely and brightly acidy but juicily sweet, deeply dimensioned, with meadowy hints of flowers that deepen toward fruit in the finish. As the finish fades, we 're left again with a shimmer of flowers.

Notes: A classic American breakfast coffee: intensely and brightly acidy but juicily sweet, deeply dimensioned, with meadowy hints of flowers that deepen toward fruit in the finish. Caribou Coffee, a large coffee chain headquartered in Minneapolis, began as a well-designed and executed variation on the Starbucks theme, but judging from the traditional quality of the blend reviewed here, more is going on these days at Caribou than sim

Who Should Drink It: Too big, too acidy, and too intense for the Starbucks crowd, but coffee aficionados of the old school should love its grand yet delicately nuanced gesture.