Bacca Cafe
El Salvador Natural Finca Malacara
Roaster Location: | Tainan City, Taiwan |
Coffee Origin: | Volcan de Santa Ana regioin, El Salvador. |
Roast Level: | Medium |
Agtron: | 50/64 |
Est. Price: | NT $600/8 ounces |
Review Date: | May 2013 |
Aroma: | 9 |
Body: | 9 |
Flavor: | 8 |
Aftertaste: | 7 |
With Milk: | 9 |
Blind Assessment
Evaluated as espresso. Ken (93) and his co-taster (88) went rather different ways on this deep, sweet, brandyish, lightly herby dried-in-the-fruit profile. Ken enjoyed the overripe, fermenty fruit notes in aroma and cup; his co-taster was not greatly impressed. Both had good things to say about the mouthfeel (co-taster: “huge and enveloping”); on the other hand, neither were impressed by the rather astringent finish. Ken admired the impact in three parts milk (“juicy and rich”) more than did his co-taster, who found it pleasantly berryish but a bit too tart.
Notes
This is a dry-processed or "natural" coffee, meaning the beans were dried inside the fruit rather than after the fruit has been removed, as is the case with wet-processed or "washed" coffees. Bacca Café is a Taiwanese family-owned small café that roasts its own coffee and bakes its own pastries with great respect for the quality and provenance of green coffees and bakery ingredients. Call +886-6-580-2009 for more information.
Who Should Drink It
Those who enjoy big, fruity and oaky red wines.
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This review originally appeared in the May, 2013 tasting report: Lighter and Brighter: Single-Origin Espressos