Kauai Coffee Company
Estate Reserve Typica
Roaster Location: | Eleele, Kauai, Hawaii |
Roast Level: | Medium-Dark |
Agtron: | 38/45 |
Review Date: | December 1998 |
Aroma: | 7 |
Acidity: | 4 |
Body: | 7 |
Flavor: | 6 |
Blind Assessment: A very comfortable, low-key cup. The dark-roast pungency is pronounced but easy-going. Just enough richness to satisfy. Not much nuance but some sweet echoes.
Notes: A very comfortable, low-key cup. The dark-roast pungency is pronounced by easy-going. Just enough richness to satisfy. Not much nuance but some sweet echoes. Most coffee produced on the vast Kauai Estate comes from trees of the relatively undistinguished yellow catuai, a hybrid variety of coffea arabica. This particular selection is from trees of the more traditional (and admired) variety called typica or Gua
Who Should Drink It: The holiday factor:This coffee's dignified, wine-look bag and origin on one of the world's most beautiful islands should provoke attention at gift-opening time. The coffee inside, while hardly distinguished, won't get thrown away.
This review originally appeared in the December, 1998 tasting report: Holiday Gift Coffees