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Kauai Coffee Company

Estate Reserve Peaberry, 1997

Roaster Location: Eleele, Kauai, Hawaii
Roast Level: NA
Agtron: /
Review Date: December 1998
Aroma: 9
Acidity: 4
Body: 7
Flavor: 7

Blind Assessment

Considerable dry-chocolate intrigue behind the dark-roast pungency. The aroma is extraordinary: light and buoyant with sweet vanilla-chocolate notes and a hint of nut. Settles down in the cup, where the pungency turns the chocolate tones pleasantly dry and smoky.

Notes

Roasted on the farm in Hawaii, this coffee displays considerable dry-chocolate intrigue behind the dark-roast pungency. The aroma is extraordinary: light and buoyant with sweet vanilla-chocolate notes and a hint of nut. Roasted on the farm in Kauai. "Estate Reserve" is Kauai Coffee's wine-nuanced designation for its best and most stringently selected production. Peaberries occur when the coffee fruit produces a single oval bean rather than two beans with matching flat

Who Should Drink It

The holiday factor:Buy it for the dry, bittersweet chocolate. The most complex, and perhaps the best, of the coffees in the cupping with dark-roast character.

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This review originally appeared in the December, 1998 tasting report: Holiday Gift Coffees

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