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PT's Coffee Roasting Co.

El Salvador La Pinera COE Lot 11

Roaster Location: Topeka, Kansas
Coffee Origin: San Miguel Department, El Salvador.
Roast Level: Medium
Agtron: 48/58
Est. Price: $23.38/12 ounces
Review Date: January 2011
Aroma: 8
Acidity: 8
Body: 8
Flavor: 9
Aftertaste: 8

Blind Assessment

Rich and pungent aroma dominated by sweet aromatic wood and hinting at chocolate. Fruit forward acidity; soft, syrupy mouthfeel and complex flavors of tart cherry and vine-ripe raspberry, balanced by fir and dark chocolate. Deceptively simple finish, with bittersweet fruit-toned chocolate reemerging in the long.

Notes

A prize winner in the 2010 El Salvador Cup of Excellence (www.cupofexcellence.org) competition, where as a green (unroasted) coffee it placed eleventh out of hundreds of entries, attracting a score of 86.50 from an international jury. This coffee was produced from trees of the much-admired, bold-beaned Pacamara variety on the La Pinera farm. The Pacamara variety, a cross between the giant-beaned Maragogipe and Pacas, a selection of the heirloom Bourbon variety, has proven to produce exceptional coffee on many El Salvador farms. Roasted at PT’s Coffee, where the motto is “without the love, it’s just coffee.” Visit www.ptscoffee.com or call 888-678-5282 for more information.

Who Should Drink It

An award winning, richly complex cup.

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